Word: serbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August von Mackensen when he overran Serbia...
...Peoples; Death to Fascism." It advocates the creation of a federation of equal States modeled after Switzerland. The impoverished peasants of Yugoslavia-Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Hungarians, Christians and Moslems-have shown an increasing preference for the Partisans. They have deserted Mihailovich, who works for a greater Serbia, the Fascist Ustachi, who want a greater Croatia, and the Serbian collaborationists under the quisling General Milan Neditch...
...Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged it after the Emperor...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...
...Nazi General Paul Bader decreed martial law throughout Serbia...