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...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...
...extraordinary meeting in the mountains took place "somewhere southwest of Belgrade" early in 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...
...training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town of Sabac.) In Greece the Nazis executed 40 student demonstrators. The exiled Greek Government reported the Germans had wrenched off one rebel's arms, had buried alive three Greeks whose executioners succeeded only in wounding them. Exiled Greek Premier Emmanuel...
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...
...Serbian Chetniks (revolutionaries) and other guerrillas raided Nazi-occupied Yugoslav villages. Four time bombs exploded in Zagreb's central telephone exchange, injuring six Germans and crippling Zagreb's telephone system...