Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt and the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile were convinced that Nazi Germany had, not only precedent, but a blueprint for the destruction of Belgrade, pre-war Yugoslavia's capital city. Belgrade, according to Berlin, is the operations center for the German-hating, fight-loving Chetniks, Serbian guerrilla fighters. Said a terse White House statement: "The city will be surrounded by troops and exposed to bombardment by artillery and from...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile charged that Hitler plans the extermination of the Serbian race, that more than 300,000 men, women and children already have been slaughtered...
...There are two Yugoslav "armies" in the field, numbering between 80,000 and 100,000 men. One, largely composed of Regular Army units, which never surrendered, is fighting in eastern Serbia near the border of Bulgaria. The other is operating on the borders of Bosnia in western Serbia. From Bosnia fully 1,000,000 Serbs have been driven by Dr. Ante Pavelitch's squads of terrorists, the Ustaschi. Most of the men refugees have joined the Chetniks in the hills...
...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...
Yugoslavia's civil war raged harder than ever. The Nazis and their stooges caught so much hell from former Yugoslav soldiers, Serb Chetnik guerrillas and other Yugoslav patriots that puppet Premier Milan Neditch of Serbia called on the peasantry to battle for the Axis. Snorted a Serb spokesman in Ankara: "If Neditch thinks that he can persuade the peasants to turn upon their own fathers, sons and brothers fighting in the mountains, he has taken leave of his senses...