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Word: djura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October, when the Serbs were holding 650 German hostages. The Serbs had warned the Nazi authorities in Belgrade that the hostages would be killed unless the mass executions of Serbian patriots was stopped. To the rendezvous went two German officers and Yugoslavia's No. 2 Quisling, General Djura Dokitch. Meeting with Colonel Mihailovitch, they asked him to name his peace terms. But Mihailovitch and his army wanted no German peace. After a two-hour talk, he gave his final word. The Chetniks would fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: War Without End | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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