Yugoslav Partisans saved 795 Allied airmen in World War II
It is important to educate the public about the fact that anti-Fascist Partisans also saved American Airmen in World War II.
By Yahalom Kashny on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 - 1,452 words.
Image: Anti-fascist Croatian Partisan fighter Stjepan Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the People!" (the Partisan slogan) seconds before his execution by a Serbian Nazi unit, Serbian State Guard, in Valjevo, occupied Yugoslavia.
Operation Halyard was one of the largest Allied airlift operation behind enemy lines of World War II. The Yugoslav Partisans played a major role in saving downed Allied airmen. Serbian nationalists often claim that Chetniks saved over 500 downed airmed, but that figure is simply wrong. According to statistics compiled by the US Air Force Air Crew Rescue Unit, between 1 January and 15 October 1944, a total of 1,152 American airmen were airlifted from Yugoslavia, 795 with the assistance of the Yugoslav Partisans and 356 with the help of the Serbian Chetniks.
In World War II, the Yugoslav Partisans were a multi-ethnic resistance force under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito (Josef Tito). It included Croats, Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Jews, Roma (‘Cigani’), Slovenes, Albanians (‘Siptari’) and Serbs. On the other hand, the Chetniks were a Serbian nationalist organization led by opportunistic Nazi-collaborator General Draza Mihailovich (aka: Dragoljub Mihailovic).
Quazi-historians with obvious Serbian sympathies – like Lucien Karchmar – often cite the Operation Halyard as ‘evidence’ of the Chetnik’s anti-fascist ideology. After all, why would Serbian Nazi collaborators save 356 allied airmen? It is because Draza Mihailovic was going to great lengths to regain Allied support and to depict himself in a favorable light to the western Allies. With the Axis defeat in Europe a certainty and having lost all Allied support to the Partisans, Draza Mihailovic and his Nazi collaborationalist movement stood no chance of survival. The Allies were aware that Mihailovic’s Chetniks were at the same time also rescuing Nazi German and Nazi Ustasha aviators from Tito’s anti-fascist Partisans.
According to Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies,
“The Chetniks’ struggle with the invaders came to a complete stop at the end of 1941, and gradually evolved into cooperation with the Italians and the Germans against Tito… By the end of 1943, the break between the West and the Chetniks was complete. The Chetniks became [nazi] collaborators and joined the forces fighting the partisans. After the occupation of Serbia by the partisans and the Red Army, the Chetniks were hunted down. Shortly after the end of the war, Mihajlovic and his men were captured and brought before a Yugoslav national tribunal. Most of them were hanged.”
According to Yad Vashem, Serbian Chetniks led by General Draza mihailovic killed Jews:
“As the Chetniks increased their cooperation with the Germans, their attitude toward the Jews in the areas under their control deteriorated, and they identified the Jews with the hated Communists. There were many instances of Chetniks murdering Jews or handing them over to the Germans.”
General Draza Mihailovic was antisemite who hated Jewish people. his Chetniks movement despised Tito’s Partisans, because Partisan units were (according to Chetniks) largely ‘composed’ of “Jews, Gypsies and Muslims.” The Chetniks hated all national minorities in Yugoslavia. At the beginning of World War II, Draza Mihailovic’s movement demonstrated a full intent to commit genocide against Bosnian Muslims, Jews, and Croats.
As part of his policies in support of the creation of Greater Serbia, General Mihailovic issued the so called “Instructions” (“Instrukcije”) to his commanders on December 20, 1941 to fight for “the creation of Greater Yugoslavia, and within it Greater Serbia, ethnically clean within the borders of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srem, Banat, and Backa” and to ‘cleanse’ (destroy) “all national minorities [including Jews] and anti-state elements from state territory“. Further, Mihailovic asked his commanders create “direct common borders between Serbia and Montenegro, as well as Serbia and Slovenia by cleansing the Muslim population from Sandzak, and Muslim and Croat populations from Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Mihailovic planned to settle “areas cleansed of national minorities and anti-state elements by Montenegrins” whom he considered to be ‘nationally patriotic’ and ‘honest.’
From 1941-1943 Serbian Chetniks committed genocide by systematically rounding up and killing more than 50,000 Bosnian Muslims. In one of largest terrorist raids on Muslim villages from both sides of Drina, Chetniks rounded up and killed some 15,000 Muslims in February of 1943. Chetnik leader Pavle Djurisic provided a bit conservative figures, admitting his troops, in fact, killed 9,200 Bosnian Muslim “women, old people, and children” in a single military operation in February of 1943.
Having slaughtered more than 50,000 Muslims by 1943, Serb fascists also hunted down and killed Jews. However, the killing of Jews started much earlier and was, statistically speaking, devastating for the Jewish community. Ninety percent of Yugoslav Jews perished in World War II.
The oppression of Jews in Serbia started before the arrival of Hitler’s occupying forces. Six months before the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, Serbia voluntarily passed the legislation restricting Jewish participation in the economy, education and employment. One year later, on 22 October 1941, anti-Semitic “Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibit” was funded by Serbia’s capital city, Belgrade. Serbian Orthodox Church also encouraged antisemitism and portrayed Jews and “scum” of this world. Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic openly encouraged Serbs to assist Germans in exterminating Jews. Serbian Orthodox Church canonized Serbian nazi collaborator Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic who is now regarded as ‘as the most distinguished religious personality since Saint Sava’”
Serbian Nazi fascists worked closely with German Nazi officials in making Belgrade the first “Judenfrei” (free of Jews) city of Europe. Serbian leader Milan Nedic made an official visit to Adolf Hitler on 19 September 1943, advancing the idea that Serbia is no place for Jews and thanking ‘Führer’ for his decision to exterminate our people in Europe.
Throughout the War, the Serbian Chetnik movement remained almost completely inactive against the occupation forces, and increasingly collaborated with the Axis, losing its international recognition as the Yugoslav resistance force. With Adolf Hitler’s blessing, Serbian Nazi collaborators established the Serbian State Guard which comprised of around 20,000 Serb fascists, compared to the the 3,400 German police in Serbia. Their mission was to hunt down and kill Jews, Gypsies and other non-Serbs.
Milan Nedic’s second in command was Dimitrije Ljotic. Ljotic founded the Serbian Fascist Party and organized the Serbian SS Volunteers Corps which hunted down and killed Jews, Gypsies and Muslims. Serbian citizens received cash bounties for capturing or killing Jews.
Banjica concentration camp was primarily operated by Serb Nazis who took sadistic pleasure in killing Jews. The camp was created by converting barracks of the Serbian SS 18th infantry division. The funding for this conversion came not from Germans, but from the municipal budget of Belgrade.
Jews were also killed in the Sajmiste concentration camp. According to Dr. Josip Pecaric,
“With reference to Sajmiste, it is important to note that it is the only concentration camp in the Second World War which was set up exclusively for Jews, the only ‘Jewish camp’ (Judenlager) in the world, from which no Jews survived (this was true of Banjica as well). Camp inmates were executed on the streets of Belgrade, using mobile gas chambers, and mass graves were located in various parts of the city. This makes Belgrade the only capital city that was also a concentration camp during the war; and all of this in plain view of the city’s inhabitants.”
Serbian collaborationist forces during this period, sanctioned by the Serbian fascist government, also included the ZBOR party and Serbian Volunteer Corps led by Dimitrije Ljotić and the rogue Chetnik faction of Kosta Pećanac. Serbian Gestapo, officially known as the 1st Belgrade Special Combat detachment, was a special Serbian SS police unit which was established in World War II Serbia.
It was only after the withdrawal of the Germans and the overthrow of the Nedic regime in October 1944 that the Serbs in Serbia began to join the anti-fascist Partisans in large numbers. These new Partisans included tens of thousands of former Serbian Nazi collaborators responding to Tito’s promises of amnesty.
It is true that Bosnian Muslims also had their own SS Handzar unit.
The so called “13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar [Handzar] (1st Croatian)” was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II. However, this Nazi unit did not target Jewish people in the World War II. The Handschar division was a mountain infantry formation, the equivalent of the German “Gebirgsjäger” (Mountain troops) units. It was used to conduct operations against anti-fascist Yugoslav Partisans and Serbian Nazi-collaborationist Chetniks. Its recruits were composed of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats (Bosnian Catholics), because both ethnic groups were persecuted and killed by Serbian Nazi collaborators (Chetniks).
An overhelming majority of Bosnian Muslims (98%) joined Partisans in the Second World War and fought against the Germans and Serbian nazi collaborators, Chetniks. Handzar Division was relatively short lived. It was created in 1943 and it disintegrated mid-field in late 1944.
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You don't have a clue, why don't you read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentrat…
and see what Serbian people went through in WW2. I am not saying that there were no bad Srbs but Croatian NDH had official plan to kill one third of Serbs, expel one third and to have third to become Catholic. All mails in my family were killed in that war in Sarajevo.
The article isn't really against Serbs it is against the Chetniks
Baverly, based on what do you say that? Have you ever been there?
By the way, my father is Bosnian/Serb and my mother is Bosnian/Muslim and i have no reason to be on any side but i know what my mother's family went through and what my father's family went through in WW2.
I think it's safe to say that many people know almost nothing about what did or didn't happen in Serbia during WWII. Interesting articles like these aren't about finger-pointing and trying to say which ethnic group was or wasn't worse. It's about understanding what happened, about exactly who participated and why they did – and most importantly, perhaps may even prevent tragedies like genocide from happening again. I firmly believe that like individuals, a nation can only progress if it examines its history to full understand itself… but if it attempts to forget, or even worse cover up its faults, it may doom itself to repeat the worst of that which it tried to hard to forget.
If only the whole history of the region was been more widely known in the early 1990s, the international community might have acted more decisively to stop all of the splinter factions on all sides that were more interested in ethnic cleansing than a fair and peaceful parting of ways. It's terrible that the international community allowed any of the neo-fascist groups to get away with committing genocide against other ethnic groups in the region.
Again trying to re-write history but why, who is paying you?
Once again, a desperate hotchpotch of unrelated items from this same author. A photo of a commie being hanged has nothing to do with the title of the article, but don't let propaganda stand in the way of a good photo op.
Anyone wanting the truth about Operation Halyard would make a good start by going here: http://www.gregoryafreeman.com/500.html
and also purchasing or borrowing the Gregory Freeman book from a library. It features none of the political sniping and untruths of this article. Operation Halyard was a self-contained operation and covered the evacuation of 500+ air crew over a short period, and this was from behind enemy lines, not Partizans using clear transport and communications links to return men to a border.
The author fails to add that the Partizans also contained many Ustashi who changed sides when they realized that they could continue to kill Serbs.
Talking of 'quazi-historians' (sic.), the author fails to see that his own uncited 'facts', eg. 356 allied airmen should read 500+, and that is fact. As for quoting fellow quaZi historians, about Chetniks being Nazi collaborators, he doesn't bother with evidence. It is as insulting as saying that Jews who worked in concentration camps were Nazi collaborators. When the majority of people slaughtered during WW2 were Slavs and not Jews – within Yugoslavia and also if you counted the rest of Europe and Russia – it is odd that the author only chooses Jewish perspectives in his writings. That is very odd.
Too much uncited fiction in the article to address individually, but I would urge anyone wanting the real truth to get yourselves a book. This author continues to ignore Partizan collaborations with the Nazis, also the 1943 attempt by Tito to reach a deal with them, and also the communists political, via propaganda newspapers, support for the Ustashi.
Running out of material, the author then goes on to recycle the Djurisic material from his previous work, such is the paucity of the "research" that has been done. Durisich, remember, was not acting under Mihailovic's orders and, besides, the author cannot resist a Serb-bashing digression. Once again, a masonic exhibition made under force of the Nazis is pinned to Serbs, but of course this is also recycled by the author from a previous article and has no bearing to the subject of the article, which is the rescue of air men.
Once again, the author, looking to save the planet by recycling, uses his 'judenfrei' story again, and fails to mention that it was the volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans born in Yugoslavia) who said this.
Once again, the author fails to pick up a book and read that James Klugmann was responsible for the Chetniks losing support politically and giving their military success reports credited to the communists.
Yet again, the author says that Ljotic was Nedic's second in command, which was not true. That the Serbian Volunteer Corps was SS – not true – and that they targetted Jews, Gypsies, and Muslims – not true because they were formed to fight communists. Their battle reports are all to do with fighting communists. As for "Serbian SS 18th Infantry Division", I can only repeat what I said the last time the author raised this, which was that the 18th SS division was called 'Horst Wessel' and comprised of Hungarian volksdeutshe, ethnic Germans in other words, and there were many ethnic Hungarians and Germans in Yugoslavia at the time Any time you see "Serbian" and "SS" by this author, you know it is not true because there were no Serbian SS units, however much propagandists and failed bloggers would like it to be true. The author also ignores the (true) reputation of the Bosnian Muslim SS Handzar Division and seeks to play it down – they weren't Serbs, were they? – and fails to mention their reputation for cutting out the hearts of their victims.
So, another article with the majority of text recycled from the author's previous work and having little or nothing to do with the title of the article beyond the first paragraph. Anyone wanting to learn the real history is advised to read books by real historians.
Once again, a desperate hotchpotch of unrelated items from this same author. A photo of a commie being hanged has nothing to do with the title of the article, but don't let propaganda stand in the way of a good photo op.
Anyone wanting the truth about Operation Halyard would make a good start by going here: http://www.gregoryafreeman.com/500.html
and also purchasing or borrowing the Gregory Freeman book from a library. It features none of the political sniping and untruths of this article. Operation Halyard was a self-contained operation and covered the evacuation of 500+ air crew over a short period, and this was from behind enemy lines, not Partizans using clear transport and communications links to return men to a border.
The author fails to add that the Partizans also contained many Ustashi who changed sides when they realized that they could continue to kill Serbs.
Talking of 'quazi-historians' (sic.), the author fails to see that his own uncited 'facts', eg. 356 allied airmen should read 500+, and that is fact. As for quoting fellow quaZi historians, about Chetniks being Nazi collaborators, he doesn't bother with evidence. It is as insulting as saying that Jews who worked in concentration camps were Nazi collaborators. When the majority of people slaughtered during WW2 were Slavs and not Jews – within Yugoslavia and also if you counted the rest of Europe and Russia – it is odd that the author only chooses Jewish perspectives in his writings. That is very odd.
Too much uncited fiction in the article to address individually, but I would urge anyone wanting the real truth to get yourselves a book. This author continues to ignore Partizan collaborations with the Nazis, also the 1943 attempt by Tito to reach a deal with them, and also the communists political, via propaganda newspapers, support for the Ustashi.
Running out of material, the author then goes on to recycle the Djurisic material from his previous work, such is the paucity of the "research" that has been done. Durisich, remember, was not acting under Mihailovic's orders and, besides, the author cannot resist a Serb-bashing digression. Once again, a masonic exhibition made under force of the Nazis is pinned to Serbs, but of course this is also recycled by the author from a previous article and has no bearing to the subject of the article, which is the rescue of air men.
Once again, the author, looking to save the planet by recycling, uses his 'judenfrei' story again, and fails to mention that it was the volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans born in Yugoslavia) who said this.
Once again, the author fails to pick up a book and read that James Klugmann was responsible for the Chetniks losing support politically and giving their military success reports credited to the communists.
Yet again, the author says that Ljotic was Nedic's second in command, which was not true. That the Serbian Volunteer Corps was SS – not true – and that they targetted Jews, Gypsies, and Muslims – not true because they were formed to fight communists. Their battle reports are all to do with fighting communists. As for "Serbian SS 18th Infantry Division", I can only repeat what I said the last time the author raised this, which was that the 18th SS division was called 'Horst Wessel' and comprised of Hungarian volksdeutshe, ethnic Germans in other words, and there were many ethnic Hungarians and Germans in Yugoslavia at the time Any time you see "Serbian" and "SS" by this author, you know it is not true because there were no Serbian SS units, however much propagandists and failed bloggers would like it to be true. The author also ignores the (true) reputation of the Bosnian Muslim SS Handzar Division and seeks to play it down – they weren't Serbs, were they? – and fails to mention their reputation for cutting out the hearts of their victims.
So, another article with the majority of text recycled from the author's previous work and having little or nothing to do with the title of the article beyond the first paragraph. Anyone wanting to learn the real history is advised to read books by real historians.
"Any blanket identification of the Serbs as being friendly to the Jews is totally baseless. " according to Shlomo Avineri, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a former director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Excerpt from Shlono Avineri's article:
"When the Germans occupied Belgrade in 1941, a collaborationist Serb administration was set up by the Nazis in the Serbian areas. It was headed by a Serbian commander and former Yugoslav minister of war, Gen. Milan Nedic.
It was this collaborationist Serbian regime that issued anti-Jewish laws, deprived Jews of their property and livelihood, herded them into concentration camps and delivered them to their deaths at the hands of the Germans."
PART 2: I had to split my comment. Here is the second part of Israeli Minister's article:
"At the same time, another Serbian former Yugoslav general, Draza Mihailovic, initiated a Serbian resistance movement against the Germans. This force, known as Chetniks, was initially supported by the Allies as it bore allegiance to the deposed king of Yugoslavia. But in the complex and tragic circumstances of war-torn Yugoslavia, Mihailovic’s Chetniks eventually found themselves collaborating with the Germans, and even Winston Churchill’s government distanced itself from them and switched its support to the Communist-led partisans of Josip Broz Tito, who later became known as Marshal Tito.
Many Jews fled to the partisans of Tito — who represented a truly multiethnic resistance to the Nazis — and were saved by them. Tito himself was part Croat and part Slovene, and one of his chief advisers, Moshe Piade, was Jewish. This is a mixed and extremely complex history and makes any blanket identification of the Serbs as being friendly to the Jews totally baseless…."
And no mention at all of Dalmatia, where Chetniks fought off Ustashi fascists (members being Croats and Bosnian Muslims) in the region while Jews were safely evacuated behind the front lines fought over by Dalmatian Chetniks against the Ustashi fascists. Italians may try to take credit for that, but they didn't do front line fighting in the region because they garrisoned towns and left the fighting to others. The Dalmatian Chetniks (Dinarska Divizija) highest commander was Draza Mihailovic. As the saying goes: put that in your pipe and smoke it. Remember also that Nedic was a puppet leader for doing the bidding of the Germans and did not represent the Serbian people.
This article is pure propaganda in its simplest form. you should be ashamed of yourself as the Slavic and Jewish peoples of Europe were the BIGGEST victims of Hitler and his policy in Europe!
Why dont we see who the American airman that were rescued said about Operation Halyard (they credit ONLY Draza Mihailovic), here is a great CBS report on it; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CXope9ncI
or you can get the book on the operation; http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-500-Untold-Greate…
Or the American hero who testified and was actually one of the pilots; http://www.generalmihailovich.com/2010/10/testimo…
The Serbs were the ONLY people who had 2 resistance groups fighting the Germans at first. Take a look at the elections prior to ww2, Nedic and company got less that 1% of the vote! That shows you how much "sympathy" the Serbs had for Germans. The Serb-German hatred had been around hundreds of years before ww2. The Serbian people overthrew their own government when their king declared himself neutral in ww2 (not to mention the Austrians killing over 1/2 of the Serbian population during ww1).
"Serbian Chetniks committed genocide by systematically rounding up and killing more than 50,000 Bosnian Muslims" this did happen (when was this declared a "genocide" and by who please) and it was retaliation for the over 500,000 Serbs that were killed by the Nazi Croats and muslims in the most barbaric ways; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e
and bosnian muslims; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain…
the fact that you are using a croat partisan "resistance" fighter as a photo is beyond misleading. the Partisans were at first almost 90% Serbian, made up of Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia who formed the bulk of the resistance against the Nazi Ustasa. they were forced to resist them as they were being hunted down like animals. it was only towards the end of 1943 that significant amounts of croats started to cross over to the partisans from the nazi ustasa side as they saw they would loose the war. you are really twisting history with no shame, anyone with a little deeper knowledge of the region can crush your pathetic feature.
"Serbian Chetniks committed genocide by systematically rounding up and killing more than 50,000 Bosnian Muslims" this did happen (when was this declared a "genocide" and by who please) and it was retaliation for the over 500,000 Serbs that were killed by the Nazi Croats and muslims in the most barbaric ways; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e
and bosnian muslims; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain….
the fact that you are using a croat partisan "resistance" fighter as a photo is beyond misleading. the Partisans were at first almost 90% Serbian, made up of Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia who formed the bulk of the resistance against the Nazi Ustasa. they were forced to resist them as they were being hunted down like animals. it was only towards the end of 1943 that significant amounts of croats started to cross over to the partisans from the nazi ustasa side as they saw they would loose the war. you are really twisting history with no shame, anyone with a little deeper knowledge of the region can crush your pathetic feature.
See how Belgrade was bombed because of the serbs resistance to hitler (over 10k killed in one day); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Belgrade_…
this is how the Germans entered Belgrade, killing and fighting their way in; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqx5i0ne_LQ&fe…
while they werer greeted with flowers by the entire Croat population in Zagreb! shame on you!
Nedic was a collaborator and Belgrade was "free of Jews" because it was run by the GERMANS! According to your logic the fact that the Nazis had over 150,000 Jewish soldiers makes the entire Jewish people pro Nazi then!? Nedic had a fraction of this figure under his command that were Serbian! WHAT NONSENSE!! http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Des…
The Germans had a brutal response for Serb resistance, killing 100 Serbs for every German killed, that is why the Chetniks stopped fighting the Germans. There are also examples of Partisans working with the Nazis in their fight against the Chetniks (who btw had over 30 groups in the region that labeled themselves as "chetniks"). you are nothing more than an amateur propagandist.
I have my doubts that this author is who he says he is and is what he says he is. Would a Jew write excuses for Heinrich Himmler's pet project, the Handzar SS Division? SS were ideologically motivated murderers and not innocent boy scouts. It is like this stuff is being written by a Bosnian Muslim and the supposed identity of the author is a masquerade. For example, this supposed Jewish author writes in the above artiicle:
"The so called “13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar [Handzar] (1st Croatian)” was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II. However, this Nazi unit did not target Jewish people in the World War II. The Handschar division was a mountain infantry formation, the equivalent of the German “Gebirgsjäger” (Mountain troops) units. It was used to conduct operations against anti-fascist Yugoslav Partisans and Serbian Nazi-collaborationist Chetniks. Its recruits were composed of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats (Bosnian Catholics), because both ethnic groups were persecuted and killed by Serbian Nazi collaborators (Chetniks)."
And yet this very same text appears in a reader's comment (reader is called ' USHMM') in this article on this same website: http://www.thecommentfactory.com/serbian-nazi-col…
with further comments from USHMM saying (I take these out of context, but just to show what is being said):
"Have you read Yahalom's article?"
and "…you should say sorry to Yahalom…"
Assuming that the author of the article and 'USHMM' are not the same person (because of the asking for an apology and about asking about reading the article), then it is odd to see the excuse for an SS unit supposedly by a Jewish person. How is the same text which appeared as a comment by another user from a previous article now appearing as a paragraph within this new article by the same person?
We should be told if we are being kidded about the identity and background of the author.
JP you are right. That a Jewish person would argue in favor of an SS unit is beyond words and logic. I dare anyone to show me a Serbian SS divison. Why dont we take a look at what the history chanel says about the SS Handzar division (by the way the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni set up this SS group and was Arafats uncle!);
The history chanel clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzTL4zu5Xg
here is what went on in Serbia during ww2; nazis killed serbian civillians for resisting at a rate of 100 serbs for every german killed;
Ch 4 report on a Nazi who killed these serbs who lived in Seattle; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WloYOOjfX5I
more history ch. on the germans killing serbs in serbia in ww2 (the people showing the nazi salute are local germans who lived in serbia); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=purD8LPIiVA&fe…
this nonsense feature and and weak attempt at rewriting history should be reported to the anti defamation league right now!
Complete and utter horse poop!! If Serbs helped the Germans so much how come the Germans launched reprisals against the Serbs? They would kill 100 Serbs for every killed German and kill 50 Serbs for every wounded German. How come Chetnik war veterans were considered eligible for many veterans pensions and benefits in countries such as Canada, The US and Australia? It is a universally accepted fact that they were the first organized resistance Hitler faced in Europe. Nice try at re-writing history but the facts speak louder than your lies.
Excellent article. My family suffered greatly under the torture of the chetniks during WWII, so most of them ended up in Tito's Partisans. The level of chetnik's hatred toward other non-Serbian communities is evident even in the comments posted here.
@anthony, sorry that your family suffered from the chetniks but keep in mind that the overall suffering the croats and muslims in bosnia compared to the Serbs in ww2 pales in comparison. The serbs had over 500,000 people killed in the most brutal and savage ways in the Independant state of croatia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_persecu…
show me just 1 example of "hatred" from any of the comments that i made here. back up your statement with proof. i guess the truth is "hatred" when it does not back your views and agenda. if it was not for the Russians, Poles and Serbs, people who actaully defeated Hitler, we would all be speaking German now (yes you read it correctly, it was the Eastern Slavs who destroyed Hitler, not the US nor the UK or France). The VAST majority of the fighting occured on the Eastern Front; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World…
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as it says in the link; "the "Eastern Front" constituted the largest military confrontation in history" and guess what side the Croats and Muslims fought on? the Croat nazis even had an entire SS division that fought the Soviets at Stalingrad; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
how people like the so called "historian" who wrote these lies or "anothony" can even attempt to debate me says volumes about their character. I dare anyone here to prove anything i posted wrong
the Germans killed 5,000 Serbs in the town of Kragujevac; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kragujevac_massacre
Hungarian/Croat nazis killed 50,000 Serbs in Vojvodina; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Vojvod…
Nazi Croats and Bosnians killed 500,000 Serbs; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentrat… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_State_of…
take a look at what tools were used to kill serbs in ww2; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srbosjek
this loonatic was called "king of the cutthroats" as he personally killed over 1k Serbs on his own by cutting their throats; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Brzica
Sajmiste concentration camp run by the Germans, most of the inmates were Serbian opponents of the occupation; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajmi%C5%A1te_concen…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halyard
Operation Halyard was the largest Allied airlift operation behind enemy lines of World War II. Five hundred and twelve Allied airmen downed over Nazi occupied Serbia were rescued by Serbian Chetnik guerrillas, led by General Dragoljub Mihailović.
It is the subject of the 2007 book The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman. It is one of the greatest rescue stories ever told. It tells the story of how the Serbian villagers were willing to sacrifice their own lives to save the lives of the air crews
Because of this operation, and due to the efforts of Major Richard Felman, U.S. President Harry S. Truman posthumously awarded General Mihailović the Legion of Merit award for his contribution to the Allied victory during World War II. The award was presented to Mihailović's daughter Gordana by the U.S. State Department on May 9, 2005
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! The entire world needs to know this heroic story and not have some crack pot amature historian attempt to rewrite history!
The author has also written this previous, worthless article: http://www.thecommentfactory.com/serbian-nazi-col…
and I note that he is reusing text in more that one article. For example, this text is used in the main article on this page and also in the linked article (above):
"Serbian Nazi fascists worked closely with German Nazi officials in making Belgrade the first “Judenfrei” city of Europe. Serbian leader Milan Nedic made an official visit to Adolf Hitler on 19 September 1943, advancing the idea that Serbia is no place for Jews and thanking ‘Führer’ for his decision to exterminate our people in Europe."
Never mind the fact that is was SS commander of the German occupation of Serbia, German born Harald Turner, who made the 'judenfrei' saying and that amateur propagandists falsely attribute it to Serbs, here is wholesale reuse of this propaganda again. Also, this paragraph is used in both articles:
"Serbian collaborationist forces during this period, sanctioned by the Serbian fascist government, also included the ZBOR party and Serbian Volunteer Corps led by Dimitrije Ljotić and the rogue Chetnik faction of Kosta Pećanac. Serbian Gestapo, officially known as the 1st Belgrade Special Combat detachment, was a special Serbian SS police unit which was established in World War II Serbia."
Furthermore, the author (or copy-and-paster, to give him his proper title) reuses this:
"It was only after the withdrawal of the Germans and the overthrow of the Nedic regime in October 1944 that the Serbs in Serbia began to join the anti-fascist Partisans in large numbers. These new Partisans included tens of thousands of former Serbian Nazi collaborators responding to Tito’s promises of amnesty."
and, ignoring that Ljotic's party was banned by the legitimate Yugoslav government before the Nazis came in and re-established it, this!
"Milan Nedic’s second in command was Dimitrije Ljotic. Ljotic founded the Serbian Fascist Party and organized the Serbian SS Volunteers Corps which hunted down and killed Jews, Gypsies and Muslims. Serbian citizens received cash bounties for capturing or killing Jews."
I hope the the people who run the Comment Factory website take note that reusing text en-masse from a previous article is not a good basis for a "new" article on their site and devalues the C.F. website. This worthless propaganda may have been copied in from some backwater blog which doesn't have the spine to publish opposition comments, and copied to C.F. website for wider publicity, but it brings the level of debate down for authors to lazily paste in their worthless propaganda onto more than one article on a website and pass it off as new, original work.
this says its all about Ljotic and his popularity amongst the Serbs;
On January 6, 1935, Dimitrije Ljotić was elected president of the newly formed party ZBOR which some compared to fascist movements in other countries. In the same year his party won 0.86% of the vote, and continued receiving similar election ratings until the beginning of the World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije_Ljoti%C4%8…
the "historian" here is showing his true face by not responding to anything that I (or JP) have posted here. instead of trying to paint the serbs as evil for your own personal agenda you should be thankful to them as they were THE ONLY people in the Balkans (along with many Greeks) who actually FOUGHT Hitler from the start! here is a jewish person who proudly speaks the truth about the serbs; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ7oulIOdEc
show us the serbian one, i dare you; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Waffen-SS_un…
this liar should be taken off the site. where are all the people who "agreed" with this trash feature now?
It was Mark Twain who said that a lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting its pants on. Obviously, the author of this junk article is not interested in the truth and seems to have some kind of obsession against Serbs to the extent that he is happy to put his name (if he is who he says he is, tho' his track record is not one of solid truth shall we say) to a lot of lies and innuendo.
My Dad would disagree. The only memory he has of his Mother is when Tito's Partisans came into their village when he was 4 and put a loaded gun in his mothers mouth and made him an orphan. You should be very proud of your family!
@ Pete: Who is paying all these people to talk rubbish about how good the Cetniks were? Who is paying everyone else to say that Serbs were the worst? You all have no idea about history – Serbs overthrew the government and rejected the tripartite pact, Croats and Muslims were the ones that welcomed Nazis with street parades. Heard of Jasenovac? Worst concentration camp in Yugo. Why was Mihailovic awarded the Legion of Merit by Truman? Collaborator? I think not. Why did Churchill say that switching his support from Mihailovic to Tito was the worst mistake he made during the war (and he was doggedly against Nazism)? Check your historical facts before you spew this garbage, and others need to check their more recent history. It's interesting that people here 'study' Balkan history – dig a little deeper than reading your local tabloids guys.
Nice, Kashny! Keep making up history. You are a moron. This is what happens when people set up blogs in wordpress. Everybody becomes an expert.
To the rest: don't be insulted by this fool. If he were an educated historian or legitimate writer, he'd be writing someplace where the readership is much greater than 5000. How many years did it take to accumulated this vast number?
I came back to view the comments on this article and I was surprised at how many of the people who responded don't seem to realise that just because it's true that some people collaborated with the Nazis during WWII, that it isn't a condemnation of all Serbs at the time, nor is it conceivably a slur against Serbs in the here and the now. If it's factual and really happened, then try to learn from it instead of attempting to revise history so that the immature and intellectually stunted can deal with it…
I am further amazed that my comment which was completely neutral got voted down. It seems that there are unfortunately some people who are doing their best to keep the fires of intolerant and ignorant tribalism burning hot. If this was representative of more people in the region, that would make me feel as if there isn't much hope for true peace and reconciliation. However I hope that more people would take the time to learn from the past instead of blatantly trying to manipulate and revise it to justify their approval of ethnic tensions in the distant and recent past as well as the present.
In other words: two big thumbs down to the Serb ethnic nationalist thugs posting and voting here. Imagine if you put even a fraction of as much effort into fixing your country as you did in trying to maintain the poisoned mentality which has and is still destroying your country!
@Arlen
you are not aware of the history of the region. The serbs OVERWHELMINGLY fought the Germans in ww2 and in ww1. saying what you said to serbs is like telling a jewish person "why are you so obsessed with the holocaust". just 1 example; if the author says that the serbian king "joined the nazis" any person with basic knowledge on the region knows that this is a flat out lie and this must be addressed. the fascist serb parties he talks about received less than 1% of the votes in any election up to the ww2. the serbian people overthrew their own government to protest the signing of a neutrality pact with Germany. who else did something like this in europe? belgrade was bombed because of this and 20k serbs died in a few days. the chetniks were the first to resist hitler in europe and the germans had to fight their way into belgrade, unlike zagreb where they were greeted as liberators. hitler had over 150,000 jews in his army, as a jewish person this is something the author should deal with first. clean up your back yard before you look into someone else's. you should be thankful to the serbs, russians and poles who actually were the ones that destroyed hitler. also arlen i dare you to show one single thing that is an attempt by me to "revise history"? i dare you to just try to debate me with facts and not with vague generalizations.
This part of the Documentry "Secrets of War – The Balkan Tinderbox" on the History channel shows that Draza's Cetniks were more successful in fighting the Axis forces then the Partizans before the Allies switched support. It also shows how Communists distorted British intelligence to make the Partizans look better. It just goes to show that Mihajlovic was fighting the Nazi's contrary to Tito's propaganda after the war http://chetniktruth.blogspot.com/2009/03/secrets-…
Arlen is nothing more than a simple liar, claiming that what the "author" outlined here is "historical fact" makes her a even bigger liar than Yahalom. here are some of his lies;
-the serb king "joined" the nazis – LIE
-the muslims protested against the nazis – LIE (this was what the serbs did in belgrade), show us proof Yahalom. look at any footage of sarajevo and zagreb from both world wars, it is filled with anti serb riots conducted by muslims and croats while greeting the nazis like this in sarajevo; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAAtM_Gt7tE&fe…
more absurd lies;
-the majority of the serbs in bosnia join nazi chetniks (so he claims most serbs were nazis in bosnia and he said the same about serbia in his other "feature")
-muslims bore the brunt of the fighting against nazis – LIE LIE LIE what a liars you are Arlen and Yahalom! the serbs always had the majority in the partisans, the first two years making up almost 80% (see Tim Judah).
you can also see footage here from the Nuremberg trial where the Nazi Chief of Staff, Alfred Jodl, testifies that because Hitler unexpectedly had to invade Yugoslavia it delayed their attack on the Soviets by 6 weeks. If the Nazis had invaded sooner they would not have been stopped by the brutal Russian winter. Hitler invaded Serbia because the Serbian people overthrew their own government due to it's signing of a neutrality pact with Hitler, mass protests of Serbs against the Germans all over Serbia and also because the Serbs expelled the German diplomatic staff from Belgrade. Go to the 1:24 mark of the documentary to hear the History Channel say this, forget about me, prove the History channel wrong; http://chetniktruth.blogspot.com/2009/03/secrets-…
this is how thankful you are to the serbs for saving you Yahalom? The Germans might have won the war if they didn't have to face the brutal Russian winter. pathetic.
as we now have the history channel crushing yahalom above why don't we take a look at what is written in William L. Shirer's monumental and definitive study of Hitler's German Empire in 1960; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich;
(this is what happened in Belgrade after the Serbs overthrew their own government to protest against Hitler);
Page 824:
…During the delirious celebrations in Belgrade, in which a crowd spat on the German minister's car, the Serbs had shown where their sympathies lay. The coup in Belgrade threw Adolf Hitler into one of the wildest rages of his entire life. He took it as a personal affront and in his fury made sudden decisions which would prove utterly disastrous to the fortunes of the Third Reich.
Hitlers postponement of the attack on Russia in order that the Nazi warlord might vent his personal spite against a small Balkan country which had dared to defy him was probably the most catastrophic single decision in Hitler's career. It is hardly too much to say that by making it that March afternoon in the Chancellery in Berlin during a moment of convulsive rage he tossed away his last golden opportunity to win the war and to make of the Third Reich, which he had created with such stunning if barbarous genius, the greatest empire in German history and himself the master of Europe.
YAHALOM YOU ARE AN UNGRATEFUL HUMAN BEING THAT OWNS HIS LIFE TO THE SERBS ACCORDING TO SHIRER!
sorry for the typos. yes yahalom you OWE your life to the serbs nation…
This article is full of historical errors, imputations and false accusations. It seems to me as it was written in the gloomiest days of Tito's communist tyranny. However, real historical facts are quite different. Draza Mihailovic was not anti-Semite, but a "faithful allied commander and the first anti-Nazi leader in Europe" as Ronald Reagan said in one letter. There were many Jewish people in his troops. One of the eminent Mihailovic officers was Commander Jovan Deroko, brother of the famous Belgrade architect and writer Alexander Deroko. There is in Serbia one very popular chetnick song about tragic death of commander Deroko (while attacking with his units Nazi occupied city of Kraljevo, partisans made a betrayal and killed him from behind).
Many Jews from neighboring countries, who fled from Nazi tyranny to Yugoslavia, joined Mihailovich troops and even established a special committee in Mihailovch army. These were members of the committee: Jandrih Hegel (representative of Czechoslovakian Jews), Dr . Ing . Ferenz May (representative for Hungarian Jews), Emil Lauber (rep. Romania), Manojlo Irich (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia). The Committee issued the following statement on behalf of Jews who then were present in the Yugoslav Army:
1. Jews from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, who are now in Yugoslavia, are fighting for democracy, shoulder to shoulder with soldiers of the Yugoslav army, under the command of General Mihailovich, and against the common enemy of the United Nations, Germany and its allies.
2. Jews, citizens of Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary will fight in a special Jewish detachments assigned to the Yugoslav army.
3. Jews, citizens of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, are fighting on equal grounds with fighters in units of the Yugoslav army, in the tradition of past wars for freedom.
4. All Jews again express their gratitude to General Draza Mihailovic and his subordinate officers, who were always very kind to their fellow citizens fleeing the Nazi terror, and that despite all the sacrifices, saved Jews from German hands. (Democratic Yugoslavia – news agency, Free mountain 29-6-1944, Bulletin 185, on 04.06.1944.)
Also, in 1948 Draza Mihailovich posthumously received (he was murdered after Stalinist trial in Belgrade in 1946) a prestige "Legion of merit" from President Truman. This recognition was initiated under the advisement of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Anyone who cares for historical truth and objectivity should consult historical evidence and not malicious and ideologically motivated accusations and lies. The article presented on this website is a good example of the latter.
"(Democratic Yugoslavia – news agency, Free mountain 29-6-1944, Bulletin 185, on 04.06.1944.) "
Googling this reference results in only this page…
It just occurred to me that the original reference may be in Serbian. Searching any combination of the names you mention on Serbian Google lead only to forums, probably posted by one of your alter-egos.
This article is absolutelly disgusting, an affront to the memory of Nazi victims because it turns historical facts upside down.
The bulk of this smear campaign can be traced back to the actual Nazi diaspora, defeated Croaian Nazis who settled in the U.S. Canada and Australia after WWII.
They are brave, not because they feel no fear but because they fear no shame.
Unlike German Nazis, they NEVER repented for their crimes and it shows.
This site is called Commentfactory not fabrication factory.
In the EU countries there are laws against this type of Nazi revisionism and there are legal precedents in place for Nazi revisionists being trialed in Germany for the filth they posted on American and Canadian web sites (rationale: it is accessible from Germany where Nazi revisionism is punishable offense.
the purphose of such drivel is twofold :
1. To whitewash Croatian and Bosnian Muslim Nazi past and allow few surviving Nazis to escape justice for the crimes commited in WWII
2. To smear Serbs as a people for non-existing crimes to get away with the crimes commited against the Serbs in the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia during 1990s.
While Serbs were busy saving Allied airmen, Croatians and Bosnians were busy shooting their planes down. Over 100 U.S. planes were shot down over Nazi Croatia, a country that declared war on U.S. one week after the Pearl Harbor.
Croatian Nazis never paid for their crimes. Their crimes continue with this article.
This is pure, undiluted NAZI REVISIONISM.> In WWII, Serbia was not "collaborationist", Serbia was under direct Third Reich military control. Read Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust.
Saying that "It was this collaborationist Serbian regime that issued anti-Jewish laws". .. absolves German Nazis of any responsibility for The Holocaust and this is an act of NAZI revisionism.
I do not care why you or Mr Avineri falsify the historical facts. In German Nazi concentration camps people of such moral fiber were called SONDERKOMMANDO. They lied to other Jews while help send them to the gas chambers.
SHAME !
lets see what the chief Yugoslav rabbi had to say about the Serbs in the 90s;
Cadik Danon, the then-Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia et al. in an open letter[10] to the American Jewish Committee in 1995, during the bombing of Republika Srpska by NATO during Bosnian War, wrote of a background of "… unrestrained anti-Serbian propaganda, raging during all this war, following the Nazi model, but much more efficient means and in a much more sophisticated and more expensive way…. Even American Jews were not able to withstand this propagandistic poison,… they did not recognize the Nazis and racist nature of the Serbophobic dogma. They did not identify Serbophobia as a twin sister of anti-semitism…." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbophobia#Use_of_t…
lets see what the chief Yugoslav rabbi had to say about the Serbs in the 90s;
Cadik Danon, the then-Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia et al. in an open letter[10] to the American Jewish Committee in 1995, during the bombing of Republika Srpska by NATO during Bosnian War, wrote of a background of "… unrestrained anti-Serbian propaganda, raging during all this war, following the Nazi model, but much more efficient means and in a much more sophisticated and more expensive way…. Even American Jews were not able to withstand this propagandistic poison,… they did not recognize the Nazis and racist nature of the Serbophobic dogma. They did not identify Serbophobia as a twin sister of anti-semitism…." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbophobia#Use_of_t…
Yashalom,
you didn't do your homework completely. The photo above is of a famous Partisan Boshko Buha.
Boško Buha (1926 – 1943) was a young Partisan who used to be one of the greatest icons of World War II in the former Yugoslavia.
Boško Buha was born in the Slavonian village of Gradina (near Virovitica) in an ethnic Serb family. In 1941, after the Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, his family was targeted by Ustasha and had to seek shelter in Serbia.
Buha eventually reached territory under Partisan control. There he tried to join the Partisans, but he was rejected due to his young age (at the time he was only 15). After a few attempts, he managed to con his way into the Partisans and took part in active combat. In 1942 he joined the 2nd Proletarian Brigade of YNLA.
Soon he developed a talent for sneaking towards enemy bunkers and destroying them with hand grenades. His talent and bravery almost immediately became stuff of legends and his unit, which had many young men and teenagers, was nicknamed the "Partisan Artillery". In late 1942 Buha was publicly commended by Tito.
A year later, Boško Buha died when the truck he was in got ambushed by the Chetniks. After the war Boško Buha received the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
A theatre house in Belgrade is named after him. In 1979, the Croatian director Branko Bauer made a film about his life.
I noticed you failed to mention the Handzar SS (Bosnian Muslimm SS Unit) and the Croatian Ustashe.
It's sad to see all these people just devouring your semi-educated posting.
Sasa
You're an idiot. That's Stjepan Filipovic. There are statues of him all over Yugoslavia.
Mr. Yahalom Kashny,
Are you man enough to admit that you were wrong? Clearly, the article you wrote is filed with lies and fabrications. These people took the time to prove you wrong with facts. Will you admit?
how is he wrong
A theatre house in Belgrade is named after him. In 1979, the Croatian director Branko Bauer made a film about his life.
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Albanian Muslim confessed Wednesday to killing two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM…
The article is real Partisans saved MORE allied airman then the chetniks. The chetniks were pro nazi.
To prove my point read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetniks#Axis_collab…
And here are a couple of quotes as well read.
Mihailović admitted to a British colonel that the Chetniks' principal enemies were "the partisans, the Ustasha, the Muslims, the Croats and last the Germans and Italians" in that order.
To support the Chetniks sufficiently to make them fight against the communists, but not so much as to allow them too much latitude in their own action; to demand and assure that the Chetniks do not fight against the Croatian forces and authorities; to allow them to fight against the communists on their own initiative (so that they can "slaughter each other"); and finally to allow them to fight in parallel with the Italian and German forces, as do the nationalist bands [Chetniks and separatist Zelenaši] in Montenegro.
—General Mario Roatta, 1942
As long as there is danger from the Partisan armed bands, the Chetnik formations will cooperate voluntarily with the Croatian military in fighting and destroying the Partisans and in those operations they will be under the overall command of the Croatian armed forces. (…) Chetnik formations may engage in operations against the Partisans on their own, but this they will have to report, on time, to the Croatian military commanders.
—Chetnik-Ustaše collaboration agreement, May 28, 1942
The Germans are not interested in politics, they take everything from a military point of view. They need troops that can hold certain positions and clear certain areas of the Partisans. If they ask us to do it, we cannot do it. The Chetniks can.
—Major Mirko Blaž, March 5, 1944
Though he himself [Draža Mihailović] shrewdly refrained from giving his personal view in public, no doubt to have a free hand for every eventuality (e.g. Allied landing on the Balkans), he allowed his commanders to negotiate with Germans and to co-operate with them. And they did so, more and more…
—Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, 1945
You have got to stop supporting these pro nazi callaborators and start supporting the real resistance in Yugoslavia. The PARTISANS. they were the real fighters against the axis
The article is real Partisans saved MORE allied airman then the chetniks. The chetniks were pro nazi.
To prove my point read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetniks#Axis_collab…
And here are a couple of quotes as well read.
Mihailović admitted to a British colonel that the Chetniks' principal enemies were "the partisans, the Ustasha, the Muslims, the Croats and last the Germans and Italians" in that order.
To support the Chetniks sufficiently to make them fight against the communists, but not so much as to allow them too much latitude in their own action; to demand and assure that the Chetniks do not fight against the Croatian forces and authorities; to allow them to fight against the communists on their own initiative (so that they can "slaughter each other"); and finally to allow them to fight in parallel with the Italian and German forces, as do the nationalist bands [Chetniks and separatist Zelenaši] in Montenegro.
—General Mario Roatta, 1942
As long as there is danger from the Partisan armed bands, the Chetnik formations will cooperate voluntarily with the Croatian military in fighting and destroying the Partisans and in those operations they will be under the overall command of the Croatian armed forces. (…) Chetnik formations may engage in operations against the Partisans on their own, but this they will have to report, on time, to the Croatian military commanders.
—Chetnik-Ustaše collaboration agreement, May 28, 1942
The Germans are not interested in politics, they take everything from a military point of view. They need troops that can hold certain positions and clear certain areas of the Partisans. If they ask us to do it, we cannot do it. The Chetniks can.
—Major Mirko Blaž, March 5, 1944
Though he himself [Draža Mihailović] shrewdly refrained from giving his personal view in public, no doubt to have a free hand for every eventuality (e.g. Allied landing on the Balkans), he allowed his commanders to negotiate with Germans and to co-operate with them. And they did so, more and more…
—Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, 1945
You have got to stop supporting these pro nazi callaborators and start supporting the real resistance in Yugoslavia. The PARTISANS. they were the real fighters against the axis
The article is saying the the chetniks were the callaborators. And they were see for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetniks#Axis_collab…
Tito's officer Dr.Jose Vilfan was his (Tito's) personal liaison with the SS. Tito sanctioned over 40 collaborative meetings with the Nazis. His forces massacred thousands of people and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Yugoslav citizens after the war and condemned the country to decades of backward social and economic policies, all of which failed. Follow the Partizans blindly and you run into these facts. Tell us of the Partizan collaborations and their chief collaborator, the communist bandit Tito. What a relief he is no longer around to have a cult of personality around him followed by uneducated villagers and his criminal clique. What a relief he isn't around to kill more people, most of whom were Serbs.
Which retard wrote this piece of shit??? You try to say that a 500 American airman's are liars?? Damn commie. Try with some medicine you moron! Obviously you're just another Serb hater ,racist and great liar!
Hmmmm…. The "Yahalom Kashny" (I pretend it is a real person rather than a fake id used for bogus propaganda) profile information is gone! The photo, the fake biographic information, gone. The Bosnian Muslim Yugo-communist retard who was masquerading this cut-pasted junk was finding it hard to put up his poison without the critical dissection it has received and is probably dying of shame right now or at least gnawing on his own fist as his toes curl with embarrasment at the Fake History 101 junk that has been concocted in the various, and poorly pasted/edited, racist and inacurate trash, only to find it chopped to bits by people who know the real story!
"yahalom" never existed, i exposed him a year ago as being a bosnian muslim who goes under a bunch of different names on the site. pathetic liar he is…
Yes. More than a little suspicious that a Jew would write articles excusing the evil Nazi-affiliated Bosnian Muslim SS Handzar Division. It's like "Everyone was bad, but the Bosnian Muslims were good, and their SS volunteers were harmless boy scouts"! Obviously, this person doesn't exist and it is some Bosnian Muslim unconscionably pretending to be a Jew to elicit sympathy from other quarters, which is a disgraceful way to behave. Who knows how many other names they used to post replies to their own articles? The people who run the website blogs where these articles originate are responsible for these trash articles that are copied to the Comment Factory site, as well as for the deception of the 'Kashny identity'.
I wonder if maybe all these chetnik apologists could name a few prominent and verifiable Jewish chetniks? I can easily name a dozen or so famous and verifiable Jewish partisans who fought under Tito. Also why don't they consider Yad Vashem's statements about Mihajlovic to be more reputable than of some little known authors?
Why do you keep changing your handle (Kashny, Partisan, Arlen, Sabhko, etc)? Your consistent narrative thread of trying to throw the concept of Yugoslav Jews into the mix gives you away well. It is a bizarre tack to take but stands out as a desperate line of argument who can offer nothing but communist ideas. Good riddance to commies like the one of the red bandit terrorist Filipovic in the photo on this page. They should all be done like that so that they cannot imprison societies with their retarded political ideas. Thank goodness communism has failed. No more fake histories written over the graves of their victims. No more sweeping their collaboration with Nazis and USSR under the carpet. Keep on with the bogus and irrelevant line of argument involving Jews. Where's the apologist line for SS Handzar Division? You missed putting that in as well. Go to Israel and try that junk and see what happens. Jews know history and they won't care for that line of bull and insult to the intelligence. And don't forget to come up with more fake names to post them under.
I wonder if maybe all these chetnik apologists could name a few prominent and verifiable Jewish chetniks? I can easily name a dozen or so famous and verifiable Jewish partisans who fought under Tito. Also why don't they consider Yad Vashem's statements about Mihajlovic to be more reputable than of some little known authors?
"(Democratic Yugoslavia – news agency, Free mountain 29-6-1944, Bulletin 185, on 04.06.1944.) "
Google this reference results in only this page…