Word: yugoslavic
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...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...
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...
...violent was the Yugoslav revolt that the Nazis were reported sending a whole panzer division of 12,000 men toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...