Word: mihailovitch
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...professional soldier and a former Belgrade lawyer are the leaders of the Yugoslav forces. The soldier is Colonel Drazha Mihailovitch, a lean, pince-nezed man of 47 who in World War I captured an enemy battery of heavy artillery with a single machine gun. Dragisha Vasitch, the lawyer, was an Army reserve officer, but was better known as a writer and the founder of the Serbian Cultural Club...
...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...
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