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Post by SKORIC on Jul 4, 2009 12:15:07 GMT -5
Pictures from another one of Serbia's most heroic yet tragic periods in her history - WW2Draza Mihailovic & Dragisa Vasic at the begining of the warGerman Tank destroyed by CetniksCetnik officer inside a captured German TankGerman soldiers killed by SerbsGermans carrying away fellow German soldier who was killed fighting with Cetniks - Kraljevo October 1941German reprisals. German soldier finishing off massacred Serb civilians with his pistol. Burnt down home of Captain Predrag Rakovic by the Germans in 1943Villagers rebuilding house that the Germans had already twice burnt down.Cetniks in captured German trucks. These trucks were captured from the Germans after the liberation of Visegrad on October 6 1943German train derailed by SerbsCivilians greeting Chetniks entering Krusevac after Germans retreat from the town on the 14th of October 1944Chetnik Colonel Dragutin Keserovic (left) a Soviet colonel (middle) & American lieutenant Elsford Kramer on the terrace of "hotel paris" after the liberation of Krusevac. Soon afterwards the Soviets attacked the Cetniks making way for the Partizan takeover of the town. Communists after the war claimed to be the liberators of the town.Cetniks with Americans and Soviets in KrusevacSerbs saluting American flagGeneral Draza Mihailovic kissing the flagAmerican OSS officers kissing the flag
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 5, 2009 7:09:32 GMT -5
Draza Mihailovic saluting the Yugoslav flag as he arrives in a village in 194428th of June 1944. 23 priests hold a service on Vidovdan.Priest blessing the colours on VidovdanMihailovic arrives in Pranjani airfield with US military mission during Operation HalyardYoung Cetnik soldiers ready for battleMore CetniksSinging while on the way to fight Germans and Ljotic's armyBozidar Miladinovic and part of his corpsMilitary Parade during the closing of the Sveti Sava congress on 28th of January 1944.Kapetan Relja DoderMihailovic giving a speechReady for battleYoung Montenegrin CetniksMembers of the Dinarska Cetnik divisionPripadnici Vlasniskog Korpusa.Showing off heavy weapons
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 5, 2009 8:55:13 GMT -5
American Colonel Albert Sajc presenting his gun to Nikola Kalabic. To the right is English Captain HudsonDraza inspecting Bosnian unitsMilka Bakovic Radosavljevic - Milka RavnogorkaU.S. Lieutenant Walter Mansfield and Chetnik major Milan JanketicMuslim CetniksLong march to battleDraza discussing with his officersNada AleksicChetnik bikers!Hijacked German carChetniks and British officersRescued American airmen ready to be taken back to ItalyCetnik womenCetnik menCetnik coupleYoung Nikola Petrovic guarding access to Pranjani airfieldLazarevic, Rakovic, Ostojic, RacicAmericans rescue Cetniks from German POW camp
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 5, 2009 11:00:40 GMT -5
Dinarska DivizijaVojvoda Momcilo DjujicSpremte se spremte Cetnici!Djujic giving a speechVojvoda Djujic with his bodyguards at the scouting point GatheringStocking up weaponsPart of the Protective battalion of the Dinara Chetnik DivisionVojvoda Djujic receives the blessing from His Holiness Patriarch Gavrilo Dozic in Slovenia, 1945.Vojvoda Djujic giving a speech to the gathered people in 1944.Djujic collecting waterVojvoda Brane Bogunovic
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 5, 2009 12:27:56 GMT -5
Ustase collecting the eyes from Serb civiliansGerman Wehrmacht troops burn Kosovo Serb villages near Kosovska Mitrovica 1941Quisling Cetnik leader Kosta Pecanac converses with German officer and Kosovo Albanian collaborator Dazafer Deva. Pecanac was killed upon capture by Mihailovic's Cetniks in 1944 for treason.Chetnik flagGroup photoAmerican Colonel McDowell with Draza Mihailovic and his Muslim Cetnik commandersUstase holding head of Serb priestAlbanian killing Serb priestHimmler inspecting SS division "Prince Eugene" before their operations against the Cetniks in KraljevoCetniks marchingGerman supply train derailed by SerbsChetniks that died fighting the Germans in KraljevoDraza with Cetniks in VucjakCica Draza sitting with the peopleChetniks and Partizans escorting German prisoners after a joint mission
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 6, 2009 10:50:39 GMT -5
Germans executing Serbs in Pancevo as punishment for Serbian resistance. 100 Serbs killed for 1 dead German Soldier 50 Serbs killed for 1 wounded German Soldier
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 7, 2009 13:24:31 GMT -5
Himmler arrives in Serbia from Berlin to oversee operation "Kopaonik" against the Cetniks under Major Dragutin KeserovicThe basis of every success in Serbia and in the entire southeast of Europe lies in the annihilation of Mihailovich. Concentrate all your forces on locating Mihailovich and his headquarters so that he can be destroyed. Any means may be used to achieve this end. I expect the smoothest cooperation between all agencies concerned, from the Security Police and Security Service to all other branches of the SS and police. The head of the SS and police Meissner has already received instructions from me in this regard. Please let me know which clues we already have of Mihailovich’s whereabouts. Please inform me weekly about the progress of this action."
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Commander of the SS and Gestapo, July 17, 1942.
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Post by SKORIC on Jul 8, 2009 7:56:59 GMT -5
Vukasin of KlepciOn the night of August 29, 1942, the prison guards of Jasenovac concentration camp made bets among themselves as to who could liquidate the largest number of inmates. One of the guards, Petar Brzica, boasted cutting the throats of about 1,360 new arrivals with a butcher knife that became known as srbosjek ("Serb-cutter"). Other participants who confessed to participating in the bet included Ante Zrinusic, who killed some 600 inmates, and Mile Friganovic, who gave a detailed and consistent report of the incident. Friganovic admitted to having killed some 1,100 inmates. He specifically recounted his torture of an old man named Vukasin.Little is known about the life of Saint Vukasin. What is known about him is from the event resulting in his martyrdom. He was born in the village of Klepci, in Herzegovina, at the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth century. At the beginning of World War II, members of the Croatian fascist Ustašas arrested him and transported him, together with other Serbs of that region, into the notorious concentration camp of Jasenovac. After horrible days full of torture, Vukašin was brought before an Ustashe`s soldier who was supposed to execute him, but who said he would spare his (Vukašin's) life if Vukasin cried loudly: "Long live Ante Pavelic!". Ante Pavelic was the leader of Ustashe. Vukasin who saw a knife in the hands of the soldier, replied calmly: "My child, you do what you must", and refused to obey the soldier`s request. The Ustashe soldier brandished his knife and cut off Vukasin`s ear. The soldier then repeated his request. Vukasin repeated his answer. The soldier then cut off Vukašin's other ear, followed by his nose, and then scarred Vukasin`s face. Next his tongue was cut. After repeating the request to Vukasin to utter the vicious words and hail the Head of Ustaše (Ante Pavelic), Vukasin once again calmly replied: "My child, you do what you must". Distracted, the soldier eventually killed him, and afterwards went mad.
At the regular session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1998, Vukašin, from the Klepci village, was entered into the List of Names of the Serbian Orthodox Church as a martyr.
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Post by Kralj Vatra on Jul 8, 2009 8:23:16 GMT -5
i wander why those killings orthodox ppl rarely get tried... What a story...
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Post by SKORIC on Nov 18, 2011 10:53:01 GMT -5
bump
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Post by Moe Lester on Nov 18, 2011 21:30:58 GMT -5
So Serbs in WWII were only Chetniks?
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Post by missanthropology58 on Nov 19, 2011 16:13:06 GMT -5
So Serbs in WWII were only Chetniks? No.
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Post by ulf on Nov 19, 2011 18:17:35 GMT -5
My mothers' side of the family were all Royalists, while my Fathers' side, all real-Communists. lol There were situations when one person would be in Partisans and his brother in Chetniks, as long as they would fight for freedom it didn't matter to people. Thing is Chetniks later on strayed from that righteous path
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Post by uz on Nov 19, 2011 18:20:00 GMT -5
Partizans as well had many inner-conflicts amongst themselves. Some of them were true communist beleivers and others' were simply theives.
the term "true-communist" is obvously debateable, but for the sake of argument I think you get my point. lol
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Post by ulf on Nov 19, 2011 18:34:45 GMT -5
Partizans as well had many inner-conflicts amongst themselves. Some of them were true communist beleivers and others' were simply theives. the term "true-communist" is obvously debateable, but for the sake of argument I think you get my point. lol Yeah, I know what you mean, but truth to be told I fancy those communists more then previous non-communistic governments(by that I mean royalists - they harmed us much more then communists)
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Post by uz on Nov 19, 2011 18:51:29 GMT -5
Unfortunately I only know about the Partizan perspective first-hand, from my Fathers' side. And ya, they say the same thing. Another important thing to keep in mind, is that not all Partizans were pro-Tito.
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Post by missanthropology58 on Nov 19, 2011 19:12:43 GMT -5
My mothers' side of the family were all Royalists, while my Fathers' side, all real-Communists. lol Lol my mum's dads family were Commies they used to have a big poster of Stalin on their wall.
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Post by SKORIC on Nov 21, 2011 3:05:53 GMT -5
i like these pictures, just goes to show nothing is ever black and white when it comes to the history of the balkans, no matter how much communist propaganda liked to paint the black and white picture after the war.
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Post by SKORIC on Nov 21, 2011 3:20:06 GMT -5
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Post by uz on Nov 21, 2011 19:30:22 GMT -5
great stuff in this thread.
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