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...into the mountain fastnesses near the Albanian border and let the enemy roll on to Greece. The collapse of the only partly mobilized Yugoslav Army meant that thousands of soldiers, fully and modernly equipped, rushed to Mihailovich. Soon Mihailovich began systematically harassing Nazi police units and the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustashi...
Yugoslavia. Serbian Chetniks kept up their wild guerrilla fight against Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelitch, his Croatian stooge. Yugoslav rebels warned the Nazi commander in Belgrade that they would slaughter 650 German prisoners if he killed any more Yugoslav patriots...
Even supporters of Croatia's quisling Premier, Ante Pavelitch, were deserting to the Chetniks. On the rocks by Croatia's roadsides, on the bricks of Croatian walls, white paint smeared out the Pavelitch slogan: "Jivilo Hrvatska Ustashi!" (Hail Croatia's Revolutionists!). To Nazi-inspired rumors that Dr. Vladimir Matchek, imprisoned leader of Croatia's once-powerful Peasant Party, had been offered the job of Premier to replace Pavelitch, Croats in Ankara cried...
...Zagreb there was proclaimed the restoration of the Crown of Zvonimir, which rested on the heads of Croatian Kings and now returns to represent the sovereignty of the Independent State of Croatia...
...Croats killed him because they thought he had sold out to Rome. The 13 years of Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...