Word: serbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslavia. Even while Adolf Hitler's armies were passing from conquered Yugoslavia to other fields of battle, Serb guerrillas collected in the dark mountains and tangled forests of their back country. Officers and men of Yugoslavia's shattered, scattered army joined them. They organized the guerrillas, who began to raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska...
Norway and Yugoslavia, on the rim of the New Order, were the best-organized centers of resistance. Twenty thousand Chetniks (Serb revolutionaries) held the hills of their country, blew up strategic railways. In Norway mass arrests continued all week. Each dawn Gestapo trucks routed out sleepy citizens, took them to prisons already full to bursting. Courtrooms and reform schools were commandeered for the overflow...
Last week came word that Prince Michael had turned the Axis kingmakers down flat. Said the Prince: "I am a Serb. As a Serb I shall never betray King Peter." After refusing the job, said London reports, the puppet-elect was promptly interned in Germany...
...extraordinary tradition in the Serb Army is for cadets to shut themselves in their messroom, turn out the lights, draw revolvers, and shoot it out. Dusan Simovitch, who passed this test of courage with flying colors, must have felt in much the same position last week. Now he hoped- as did the Greeks and British to the east-to prove that the point at which Blitzkrieg can fail in mountainous country is the second phase: consolidation...
...that yet." Later Dr. Nintchitch announced that Yugoslavia would respect all "public and open" commitments which previous governments had made; i.e., it would not respect any secret clause in the treaty. (Insiders said that the pact contained a clause creating a no man's land on the Greco-Serb border, where Germany would be allowed to concentrate motorized divisions.) Still later Dr. Nintchitch elaborated some more: Yugoslavia was returning to a policy of "strict neutrality" and was prepared to fight for it. Germany countered by ordering all German citizens to leave Yugoslavia at once. Herr von Heeren caught...