Serbian Collaboration during World War II
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2022
- Serbia in World War II. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia the Balkan nation was carved up. German-occupied Serbia was officially known as the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (or: the Serbian Residual State). The collaborationist government was led by Milan Nedić and became known as the Government of National Salvation (Nedić's government). Different pro-Axis Serbian formations saw the light of day such as: the Serbian State Guard, the Serbian Volunteer Command and the Russian Defence Corps (Russian Protective Corps).
Learn more about this unknown but tragic past of Serbia during the Second World War. History Hustle presents: Serbian Collaboration during World War II.
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- Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941 - 45 [Men-at-Arms 282] (N. Thomas & K. Mikulan).
- War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Occupation and Collaboration (Jozo Tomasevich).
- Death of the Wehrmacht. The German Campaigns of 1942 (Robert M. Citino).
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Can you make a video of Hitlers opinion of the Danish and Norwegian people
My fathers and my mothers uncles, granfathers and their cousins were "colaborators"(Yugoslav army in fatherland) even if they fought against Germans from the start of the war and communists who were with Germans when war started are "liberators". In my home town Chetniks units were organised by muslims, chatolic and ortodox people and didn't commited any war crime. We lived in peace with our neighbors. I am from central Bosnia.
Tych kłamstw nie da się słuchać. Serbowie czyli Jugosławia walczyła z Niemcami w przeciwieństwie do Horvatów czytaj Ustaszy.
🇷🇸 thank you from Belgrade Serbia my family in Serbia will never forget.
Thanks for your reply!
@@HistoryHustle their russian bots. Ignore them.
Much love to Serbia from the Czech Republic, you helped my country several times and I hope we will be able to repay it sometime. 🇨🇿🇷🇸
Ok👍
Bullshit.
When? Czech was like Croats in Hasburg monarchy then in Austro- Hungary.What Czech have with Serbs?
Thank you ❤❤❤
Nosens
National library was destroyed with thousands of historical and medieval books, all destroyed sad :(
Yes, very sad also!
My favorite UA-cam channel is "World War Two" with Indy Neidell, but I absolutly love how this channel covers things that don't get coverd there, like the different collaboration factions or WW2 from the Dutch perspective. Which results, that I personally can't keep these two channels apart in my head.
Thanks. WWII is a great channel yes 👌
I don't know what nationality or ethnicity Hustle is, but this channel gives a better eastern/IndoEuropean perspective on things I think
@@prismpyre7653 I'm Dutch 🇳🇱
Me too. 👍
Indy and crew covered Yugoslavia in WW2 terribly after the April war, they started well but then out of nowhere they placed some totally wrong specials with tons of misinformation and background which in this is simply needed. I understand western front was priority and then eastern but better not to make specials then to make it on way they done couple of episodes.
10:36 Speaking about Banat, one must remember also that large part of 7th SS Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was formed from Banat Germans, mostly from young men that already recived some basic training as part of local police or "self-defense" units.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah and there were a few battalions in partisan resistance units made up of Yugoslav germans or Italians who switched sides. So at one point in Yugoslavia germans were fighting on both sides.
@@konstantincvetanovic5357 There was a platoon sized company called Ernest Tellerman in Slavonia, true. Other notable examples are small number of ex members of SPD that deserted from penealty battalions to partisans ( from Germany proper) and some Austrian POWs that were given over to Soviets to fight with Red Army in 1944. Compared to that in July 1943 19 100 of Germans from NDH served in SS (13 500), German police in Croatia, Croatian railway troops and other Axis units. That number was 25 800 at the end of 1943. Given that German population in NDH was 120-150 000 that means that every capable and avaliable man was serving in Axis formations (mostly in SS). Compared to that 50 members of Tellerman company seems insignificant
Wait, wait, wait a Mountin Division from Banat, a plain an flat as Mid West of North America🤔
Am I the only one who sees a problem whit this?
@@milansimonovic8267 They were trained to fight in the mountains, hence mountain division
An interesting introduction to a complicated subject, it does seem that the Serbs were caught between two bad choices and were damned no matter which side they chose.
Indeed.
Can we appriciate the effort this guy puts into replying to every single comment?
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I'm glad you mentioned Russian Protective Corps since it one of the most tragic pages of the White Movement history, albeit a fascinating one. Great video, as usual, thank you
Yes! I also talk about them in the Russian collaborators video. Thanks for watching this one.
@@HistoryHustle Yes, I remember, and you're also one of the very few researches who brought up a topic of Alexander Zaustinsky's White Cross regiment and his Smolensk Government project which was nixed in 1941. I'd like to see a standalone video about Zaustinsky and White Cross one day, since their destiny is kind of a mystery
@@simonrinzler7803 sorry, no standalone will be made due to the lack of sources and imagery.
@@HistoryHustle okay, you still rule
Chetniks were fighting on both side of the war it was like brother vs brother
Yes.
I call it: "using the enemy"
Collaboration in ww2 is more deep as I watch more videos
I understand.
@@HistoryHustle yes, you have Croats and Bosnians killing Serbs, and vice versa, for both fascist and anti-fascist causes.
Friend of mine.
His great grandmother tossed his father into a well to hide him when Germans and Croats came into their town, and were making reprisal killings. Grandmother didn't make it, along with a lot of others.
He later moved to the U.S. and married a German woman who was not treated kindly in Berlin at the end of the war by Soviet soldiers.
Strange sometimes, how things work out.
I understand. Thanks for sharing.
Stefan, very Interesting nugget of European history. Thank you for sharing you’re amazing knowledge ✌️=) Jesse
Cheers, Jesse.
First and thank you. Love your channel. Keep up the great work 👍👍
Congratulations on this amazing performance you get 🥇🏆🍾🥂👏
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VERY interesting - thanks for posting :)
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Great episode Stefan 🙌🏻
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Ljotic actually held a large amount of Sway in German-Occupied Serbia, not only was his cousin (Milan Nedic) the Leader of the Government of National Salvation, but he actually had saved 50 Alleged Freemasons from execution and had helped Gypsies in the country. There was also Herman Neubacher who was the Plenipotentiary to the Balkans and actually tried to make things better for the lives of Serbs
Thanks for sharing this.
Ljotic organization ZBOR was yugoslavia organised and based, his wife being Croat from the yugoslav part of Rijeka-:Fiume.
They were just auxiliary units few in number.
Beyond excellent ,as always.
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The ordinaire people must have felt caught between a rock and a hard place. What a mess.
Thanks for another great vid!
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
Indeed. Thanks for watching 👍
Interestingly the members of the Russian Protective Corps were not repatriated to the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia after the war. It was decided by the British that since most of the formation were White Russians who had either fled Russia before the formal establishment of the Soviet Union or were born after the war outside of Russia they were not Soviet citizens. This pissed off Stalin and Tito, as Stalin regarded them as Soviet citizens even though they technically weren't and there were several hundred Soviet POWs in the unit. But in the end they were one of the few Nazi collaborationist formations that escaped repatriation and were allowed to freely settle in the west, most went to the USA or UK.
Thanks for sharing this.
Talking about Chetniks you need to note main differences and please do not made same mistake as the others in some other videos, do quality research even though it is very complicated! I will help you with very start: for beginning there were two Chetniks groups each called differently and both begin resistances totally separately from each others. First group was lead by Kosta Pećanac, veteran of Serbian Chetnik guerilla fighting against Bulgarians during WW1. When Axis occupied Yugoslavia he was fighting Albanian and Bulgarian occupation troops who tried to take control over the south of Serbia but local people were giving them resistance. Second group was lead by Draža Mihailović, also WW1 decorated veteran but who fought with regular Serbian troops during WW1 participating in multiple battles and continuing regular military carrier afterwards. Mihailović group during Axis invasion was one of the few which not surrender and instead was fighting in Croatia, Bosnia eventually finding their way back into Serbia left only with less then 100 people once they arrived. Here we are talking about beginning of occupation so Pećanac Chetniks at first had actually more people not even knowing that Mihailović Chetniks were set on their base in Ravna Gora conscripting local villagers and trying to get in touch with exiled political leaders in London through the radio connection. Meanwhile Pećanac before anyone else got in touch first with Serbian puppet representatives in Belgrade which probably told him that Mihailović survived and now he organizing troops in totally different area. Pećanac sent scouts to Mihailović and they both set a meeting point to discuss current situation. Long story short: Mihailović and Pećanac meet secretly after this but from what was known is that right away huge arguing started between them about who should be the main leader and who have the right on Chetnik leader title, in short Pećanac offered Mihailović to be something like main "commander" under his strict orders which Mihailović rejected and they both end up meeting very angry. Meanwhile in Belgrade and other towns in Serbia communists started secretly to print propaganda against occupational troops and to make some local actions but their numbers were also very small so technically April-May even good part of June Pećanac was believe it or not "main resistance leader" and more attention was switched to him by the Germans then on the others (here they made crucial mistake). Pećanac after some initial fights made local verbal agreements with Bulgarian and some Albanian occupational leaders and then he meet people from Belgrade puppet government who probably convinced him to meet with Germans in order not to spread fighting further and to save local people lives. Details of this meeting were unknown since there were theories that they took Pećanac as a hostage, others that Germans offer to him full control of area and peace in exchange. What is known and pushed publicly was that Pećanac on August 1941 placed out printed Declaration "To my Dear People" in which he accused communists bands, then he also accused other Chetnik groups (thinking of Mihailović) for which he is not their leader and for rejecting his latest commands of non attacking German units. In that declaration he also said that all Chetnik units are now under approval of puppet government in Belgrade and that they must come under his personal control or they will become enemies and legitimate targets. This naturally anger many Chetniks within Pećanac ranks who right away switched sides and joined Mihailović Chetniks while the battles against Germans on the ground were still going on. Mihailović responded to that declaration by calling Pećanac "Traitor and Collaborations" gaining a huge popularity among Serbian locals who started joining him in masses. Pećanac was leaved alone only with very small number of his units who were technically just local puppet guarding troops with passports and approvals from Germans that they were able to operate in certain areas which they declare them to do. In couple of situations they even went into direct battle against Mihailović Chetniks like for example in "Battle for Kruševac" on September 1941 which many people back then looked as a huge shame. This is important because 90% of the pictures from the internet where Chetniks are together with Germans are actually from Pećanac puppet units of this times. Over the months their popularity dropped so rapidly that at the end of the war Pećanac troops were almost non existing, he was later kidnapped and executed by Chetniks of Draža Mihailović in June 1944 as a traitor. Mihailović itself at first not wanted to start fight against Germans because he though that time was not right and that they were totally outnumbered, however Veselin Misita one of the Mihailović Chetnik commanders in area of Loznica ignored his non attacking orders and together with his Chetnik troops and Serbian locals in "Battle for Loznica" August 1941 liberated whole town taking German prisoners and dying in the battle. After this attack Mihailović was kind of "forced" to continue with momentum since it was a point of non return but as well it was the same for communists under Tito who by viewing Chetniks liberating town immediately started making attacks in the same area of Western Serbia on their own and also in many places together with Mihailović Chetniks. Germans first though those were small incidents but then towns begin to fall one by one, in each of liberated towns both Chetniks (Royalists) and Partisans (Communists) organized their own members giving speeches and conscripted more locals. Situation totally went out of control because almost all Western Serbia fell into rebel hands and Germans in Belgrade were urged to call backup from other fronts. If this is too complicated I advise you to check video called "Užička republika i ustanak u Srbiji 1941" it is on Serbian but description with Map is done pretty well (blue circles Mihailovic Chetnik troops, Red circles Tito Partisans). Cheers!
Thanks for sharing. Lemme know what your sources are. I have many Serbian nationalists that reply on my content. For them it's never good enough. They want a story that fits their national narrative. I focus on history instead.
@@HistoryHustle You are welcome it is extremely hard to explain. Those are known facts and anyone who read Yugoslavian historiography a bit deeper then afterwar Tito's literature (especially who know the language) can confirm you above. Different thing is that communists after the end of WW2 tried to skip half of this timeline events or simply to ignore them, among the other things burning documents about their own collaborations and war crimes during WW2 which also happened (true in a smaller skale then others but it does). Picture is not black and white, Yugoslavia during WW2 is extremely hard to follow due to so many groups, spy's, troops, concentration camps, political leaders and others. Many simply prefer to fall into that simple explaining line by reading classical rethoric "Tito good others are bad" while in fact during WW2 he was often secreficing others instead of him even betraying people in couple of situations in order to save himself like during the "Battle for Kadinjača" technically leaving locals without battle experience to be literally slaughtered by the German troops. Above written by the way was only start and only 1941, things were going even more crazy after how war went on. In Montenegro for example during 1941 Serbian Chetniks and Partisans together beat Italians so hard (even keeping many Italian prisoners of war) that Mussolini went crazy. Later this Chetniks/Partisans divisions and splits will be especially visible over Montenegro in most brutal form. Anyway my whole point - this topic is huge, do not fall in line of easy storytelling when in fact occupied Yugoslavia was brutal mess of no innocents side. Even talking about Pećanac who lead those other Chetniks in begining, you need to get into his personality and understand that he was very old person with old WW1 guerilla mindset trying to be local leader and save what was possible to be saved at that time. Mihailović never made any written contracts with Germans or Italians, however many of his commanders were concluding collaborations in Croatia and Montenegro with Italians who saved more Serbs from Ustashe then anyone else. For Serbian local in Croatia reaching out Italian line control was salvation as civilian, there were many examples Italians threaten to Croatian Ustache militia over the things they were doing. Mihailović however did had one meeting with Germans also in about same time when he had meetings with Tito twice but Partisans also had meetings with Pećanac at first and German spy representatives all of those in secrets (everyone wanted better position logically). Make your own research on those things and bring your own conclusions which is always the best way to do it. Good luck
Draza's Chetniks aren't collaborators with Germans. Pecanac collaborated with them
Hello from Serbia, liked the video, the Serbia suffered lot because of the Nazis and Croatian Ustase in their concentration camps during that time.
Thank you for watching.
He literally said it at the beginning of the video 🤦♂️
Just trying to follow all of the Chetnik factions is quite a challenge.
Indeed! I'm up for it.
Nedic and Ljotic troops were not Chetniks.
There was an effort during Socialist times to equate them in order to present partisans as the only resistance movement. However, despite their collaboration with Germans, it would be very unjust to compare Chetniks to fascists like Ljotic.
@@Sleepery22 one just needs to remember that, while there were 7 official German offensives on Partisans, there were zero of the same on Chetniks, Ljotic or Nedic folk!!! Anyone with a half of brain can see what's going on there, so did allies in WWII
@@yeahright4659 That's factually incorrect: first offensive (Uzice) was launched against Partisans AND Chetniks, with backing of Ljotic , on German side.
p.s. I won't further whitewash Chetnik movement, from which my own grandfather recruited fighters into partisans, but I don't think it's fair to compare them with fascists, who wholeheartedly waited for Nazis to arrive.
@@Sleepery22 ma to je sve u redu. Male ispravke. Dogovorili su se oni sa fasistima poslije prve ofanzive. Ali generalno govoreci, to su po modernim standardima bili sminkeri. Lutali okolo i klali neduzan narod.
A great video to explain what is almost incomprehensible for most of us to understand.
Thanks for replying!
Another great video
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A royal job. Nothing is just black and white, especially in the history of mankind. Gratitude.
Appreciated!
And a fun fact (if someone doesn't know) for yours viewers, You have a Hollywood made movie in 1942. called "Chetniks" about Serbian guerilla.
Really? Wow, they made this during the war. Must be interesting to watch.
@@HistoryHustle Yeah (we have that in books and with poster from that time on English ofc, i dont know if that is on wikipedia, never look into it there), at least that was while they supported Mihailovic until they let him down the drainage in favor of commies. He was really celebrated through western propaganda in one point in time as Yugoslav resistance was far serious than most in western countries because in most circumstances people had to choose between ustasha knifes or to fright and ofc there is a terrain of Yugoslavia which favors resistance as country was/is mostly hilly and mountains and some other factors to like psychology of population in certain areas...
Немамо избор, него само Збор! 🛡🌾
I see.
Very under appreciated UA-cam channel.
Thanks for your reply!
I didn’t know king Alexandra was assassinated 🤦♀️ Thank
You for explaining a complicated area of history, Stephan.
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Vlado Chrnozemski killed him, In Macedonia we have a controversial figure named Vancho Mihailov who ordered the killing of King Alexander, Vancho Mihailov was a Macedonian and fought for Macedonian interests until WWII when he became a Bulgarian nazi
I'm still looking forward to a History Hustle/Time Ghost Army [Indy, Sparticus, Astrid, etc.] collaboration on something - anything - because you guys produce such great content. Ofc Stefan [spelling?], LOVE LOVE your work, keep it sir! o7
Sir, are you feeling better from your illness?
Thanks, I'm good now!
Always interesting.
Great!
We had bad chentniks and good chetniks , Nedic was collaborating with purpose to save civilians, Ljotic was the real fascist.
I understand there is still much divided opinions on Yugoslavia in WW2 by people from the region.
My friend who comes from Sombor, North Serbia, at that time part of Hungary was Serb by mother and Volksdeutsch by father, for the short time period when he moved to Nedic Serbia he was member of Serbian Volunteer Corps but later joined SS Prinz Eugen Division.
Serbian Volunteer Corps strived to destroy communism and push Nedic plan of integration and creation of All-Serbian State within New Europe
Jeli ti prijatelj zna o Srbima u SS Princ Ojgenu?
@@serbianman7431 Да. Мада није утврђен нигде прецизан број колико Срба је било у дивизији. Осим Срба било је и хрвата, Румуна, Мађара и Украјинаца али у мањим бројевима. Наравно већина су били Немци. Мада неретко је Принц Ојген Дивизија имала заједничке акције са Србским постројбама као што су СДК, СДС, Ђуришићеви Четници, Ђујићеви четници и слично.
Према неким подацима које сам нашао на Стормфронту наводно покојни Фолксдојчер који је био командант те дивизије и живео је у Бачкој је рекао да је у дивизији током целог њеног постојања било 1000 Срба, ако је то тачно, ако узмемо да је дивизија имала 10 000 припадника и није баш мали проценат.
@@serbianman7431 Nisu postajali Srbi u princ Eugenu koliko znam, ali bila je jedna jedinica srpskog SS-a pod Strahinjom Janićem
@@user-vd9iv1zy9k Valjda je bilo 1000 Srba u Princ Eugenu krajem rata. Čuo sam da je bio srpski SS puk u diviziji Karstjager. To da nas je bilo u toj diviziji je tačno ali ne znam da li smo imali čitavi puk
Yugoslavia during ww2 is always an interesting mess. Thanks for sharing
Great to read Anita. Thank you!
There is more than meets the eye. I have been to the area four times, and still, there is more. Speaking of the Banat, a castle was built by one of Goerings friends, close to Jimbolia in Romania.
Hope to visit it one day!
My family is from Banat,my grandparents told us many story’s about life during WWII. Our village was occupied by the Germans. My grandfather was treated well by them. It all changed when they hung his cousin in Pancevo. My grandfather joined the resistance(partizan).
He said,we killed the nazis like dogs!
Keep up the good work 👍🏻
The Axis attack succeeded in lease than 2 weeks. That is a frighteningly short space of time sadly the invasion also laid some seeds for future bloodshed by putting the vatious peoples against each other. Fascinating video as always ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Many thanks for replying once again Tanya!
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Our leadership made a lot of bad mistakes, they removed Milan Stojadinovic, the man who can go along with Germany and Italy and was seen "good" by Hitler and Mussolini and they removed prince Paul a man who was just realistic politician (btw English taught him that...). We had pact non aggression pact with Germany and Italy (oh boy i know i am gonna rock some reactions here because it looks like i was for the "unholy alliance" with the Devil) and given how things turn out to happen in Yugoslavia during WW2 with all the atrocities and suffering of civilians I am very much on a non aggression pact with Germany. Hitler was no man that can be trusted that is obvious even to a 3 year old child, but he wasnt really interested in attacking Yugoslavia and even a pact was very positive to Yugoslavia, but there were (as always among us Serbs like 90's for example, if there was any justice Milosevic should be trialed in Belgrade, not Hague) some people who doesnt really give a shit about common population and what will happen to them if they poke and provoke powers like Germany....Its all just one big sad story about ordinary Serbian population in 20 century and i am not self sorry now but it is a fact :(
Can you do the Greek collaboration during ww2 during occupied Greece
One day for sure!
Csn you do video about Croatian resistance movement?
One day for sure.
Another good film Stefan, there were also a number of small chrome mines in Yugoslavia although most was imported from Turkey. The Italian occupation forces also carried out atrocities against the Serbs that should not be forgotten.
Thanks for your reply. If you are interested in Italian occupied parts of Yugoslavia please watch
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The Italians did not commit atrocities, they protected civilians.
Italians had several concentration camps like the one on island Molat or Kampor on the island of Rab. They had concentration camp Gonars near Treviso. Concentration camps were reserved For Croats, Slovenians and Jews. It is estimated that they killed 350000 civilians in those camps. 1921--1944 another 120000 people from annexed parts of Slovenia and Croatia were exiled. 20000 Croats and Slovenes from Istria were exiled in Zagreb. Djujic's Chetniks of Dinara Battalion were Italian fascist scum collaborators, they were their dirty work squad in Dalmatia, in charge of burning Croatian villages and murdering civilians. That is why the majority of Croats in Dalmatia joined the partisans, they have been anti fascist since 1921, easy choice Croatian language and culture were banned, Croats were beaten and murdered. Italian fascists were just as bad as Nazis. Rest is propaganda. F. CK Fascists and Nazis
Milan Nedić and Dimitrije Ljotić saved many Serbs and other nations during their cooperation with the occupier. Glory to the heroes Ljotić and Nedić!
I would not say glory to but what you say is true, in their position they did managed to save Serbs.
@@HistoryHustle My family was saved by Dimitrije Ljotić, more precisely my great-grandfather, if it hadn't been for Ljotić, there wouldn't have been me either. They saved many people and helped them, that's why they entered into collaboration to help their people. Nedić and Ljotić are not traitors or fascists, but sincere patriots and patriots
'Chetniks' was a very broad umbrella term for Guerilla fighters going way back to the Ottoman occupation . Anyone could pick up a gun and declare themselves a 'Chetnik ' but the only ones who were true to the name were those who we're officially part of the Royal Yugoslav Army of the Homeland and took their orders from General Dragoljub Mihailovic and the Royal Government in exile in London .
On the ground it was very chaotic therefore some chetniks had truces with occupying forces eg Italians because it could help prevent the Croatian Nazis (Ustashe) commiting genocide against the Serb population in those areas . In other areas eg Serbia itself the Chetniks rescued 500+ allied airmen and got them evacuated safely ((Operation Halyard ) which was quite remarkable and after the war this operation was hidden from history by the Communist authorities but also by the US who didn't want to upset the Communist dictator Tito who they were trying to keep away from the Warsaw Pact .
Tito only had one interest in WW2 and that wasn't defeating Hitler it was a Communist takeover of Yugoslavia and to him the Serb peasantry were very useful cannon fodder and he was lucky the Red Army arrived to defeat his only enemy which wasn't Hitler but General Mihailovic . If the Allies had invaded via the Balkans instead of via Italy Tito would have been toast. President Truman awarded General Mihailovic a medal in 1948 for his contribution to the allied cause and this was kept a secret too.
The Yugoslav Army of the Homeland under General Mihailovic and the Polish Home Army were the only Armies WW2 that fought against both Hitler and Stalin whereas everyone else allied with two monsters Hitler or with Stalin including the US itself .
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
5:25 That's not Milan Nedić, that's his brother, general Milutin Nedić.
Really? In that case I stand corrected.
@@HistoryHustle Not a big deal really, they do look alike so they're easy to confuse.
Another good video. Take care and ding dong.
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This is very interesting, based on excellent research.
Many thanks!
Serbian Volunteer Corps
Serbian State Guard (Serbian Border Guard, Special Police incl.)
1st Belgrade Combat Detachment (,,Serbian Gestapo")
Serbian Chetnik Command (Kosta Pecanac's legalized chetniks)
Commando SS groups ,,Ringelnatter" and ,,Viper"
Russian Protective Corps
Please watch the video.
With chetniks it is really difficult, because not all detachments collaborate with Germans, some did, others not at all, but overall they were resistance movement with a grain of collaboration in their ranks (really chaotic image to say the least). Same could be said for partizans under Tito, they also had their "moments" with germans (most well know in 1943 in Zagreb) but it seems to lesser extent...nice video btw.
You're right, Chetniks is a difficult topic. Hope to explore more on this in the future. Thanks for your reply.
Where exactly the chetniks were a resistance movement and if they were, for how long did they wage war against the Axis powers? Which facts prove what you affirm? It's quite the contrary. They collaborated very proficiently with all the Axis forces (even with the ustashas whom they hated in theory and they were seen very friendly by the italian fascists). Overall they were a collaborationist, reactionary and monarchist force. Pretty much everywhere.
@@ivan-boskohabus1400 You look like a typical croat hearing your name. Not all cehtniks were collaborationists. A Basic example of a collaborator Chetnik Is Uroš Drenović that signed a treaty with independent State of Croatia to protect Serbian villages located on the Manjača mountain. There's also An example of Chetniks called "black Chetniks" or "illegal Chetniks" that were collaborators just as their leader Kosta Pećanac, that was killed by the Real Chetniks of Draza Mihailović Aka (the Ravna gora movement) which original name was The Yugoslavia Army in the fatherland.
Serbian: Jugoslovenska Vojska u Otadžbini.
@@user-hf4jl2zd6yDoesn`t change a thing with what I said, with what history says. Not all germans soldiers were nazis. Fact. But they chose the evil side. Fact. Chetniks were traitors and mass-murderers, as the pope you have in your avatar. Bye bye.
@@ivan-boskohabus1400 Well said. They have these pseudo-historians now that make things up in an effort to rewrite the history. They always forget to mention that those chetniks who didn't collaborate with Nazis also didn't fight them, instead they were just sitting around, pillaging for food and drink and occasionally attacking Partisans. Chetniks collaborated with all occupying forces, German, Italian and even Ustashe. They also have fabricated this fantasy story of Partisan collaboration with Ustashe but nothing Partisans possibly did could ever make Chetniks look any better and that's a fact.
Make a video about Government of National salvation [German Puppet Government in Serbia and German Puppet State in Serbia] fun fact: Axis powers Serbia gained Macedonia when Bulgaria was taken by Allies in 1944.
I promise, if I ever travel to Serbia I'll record one on location. I do these short-lived states always on location. Can't tell when I'll be in Serbia. Perhaps this summer.
@@HistoryHustle i’m also going to my homeland this summer :) [I live in Banat which was only city in Vojvodina that Serbia had in ww2] Also, let me tell you a fun fact about that puppet state of Serbia.. when Bulgaria got occupied by allies, we got that entire Macedonia Bulgaria had.. (and the Serbian territory flag was basically just a tricolor flag, thats the only thing wikipedia got incorrect)
About the integration of the Russian corps into the ROA: it’s more correct to say “into the Armed forces of the Committee of the Russia’s Peoples’ Liberation” (or VS KONR, Rus. Вооружённые силы Комитета освобождения народов России), which was officially established in Nov’44 under its head and CiC Lt.-Gen. Andrei Wlassow (btw one Russian historian found a document where A. Wl. was titled as SS-Gruppenführer, but I still don’t know what it was: did it mean that he was promoted to this rank or he just got a salary from one of SS Hauptamts according to rules of the SS?). The difference between these two terms (ROA vs. VS KONR) is this: ROA had never existed is an organized armed force and stopped to exist officially when the KONR was established, but VS KONR was an official allied army to the German Reich and nazis planned to make Wlassow as a high commander of all the Russian troops under Hitler (including not only the Russian corps but also von Pannwitz’s cossaks &c.) and these plans were very late (because before the fall of 44 they didn’t want to give Wlassow more than his personal adjutant).
Thanks for sharing this additional information.
Thank you for this very informative video. I found it very objective and balanced, avoiding exaggeration and sensationalism. This is so important when dealing with difficult issues such as collaboration. I'm very aware of the shameful policy of the Polish government before the war forming an alliance with Nazi Germany at the expense of Czechoslovakia, attempting to take away Czech territory in the process.
Thanks for your reply. As for your claim I do have to research that.
Based Serbia!
Ok.
Do the same for the Greek collaborators,they have an interesting history.
One day.
Those two guys at the tumbnail were chetniks from Croatia, led by orthodox ex-priest , Serb, Momchilo Djujic (he was under command of Draza Mihailovic, chief of stuf of the army and navy of Yugoslav army in fatherland). Other fractions were Yugoslav army in captivity and Yugoslav army out of fatherland (mainly in middle east, Pakistan and Egypt, fought along British army).
I see.
10:58 "Repatriated to the hands of the jugoslav partisans"... Repatriation sounds darksome in this case for these poor devils...
Obrigado, Stefan! 🇧🇷
To be honest I never have positive associations with that word, looking at history.
*Just a month before Kraljevo Massacre in October 1941, in September, an entire community of Kulen Vakuf, comprised of Bosnian Muslims was erased from the Earth by Serbs (not Chetniks, not Serbian nationalists but by their own neighbours), over 2000 civilians have perished.*
*They make Imperial Japanese Army blush.*
It was very messy. You have a source with more info in this event?
War is caused by chaos in the minds of some people...no one in their right mind would do any of these horrible things! The more history that I learn of WWII the more mean insane people I realize existed then to cause and perpetuate it!
Let's hope it won't happen again.
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The history we learn it in our schools in Yugoslavia.But unforchant after 1991 that history suddenly start to change...Many of those mantioned in video became a neutral or even a great patriots.Its gonna be very intetesting video about Chetnicks movements not only in Serbia but in whole Yugoslavia.Thank you very much for profesionalism.
Although I have pro-partisan perspective, Chetniks (Mihailović's) were indeed anti axis movement at start, and during war they had moments of collaboration, and also moments of conflicts with axis. But their war goal was liberation of Yugoslavia. So when you have that in mind, revisionism in Serbia is less dangerous than in Croatia and Bosnia, because Chetniks was on Allied side during big part of WW2, but Croatian Ustaše, and Bosnian collaborators were openly nazis and pro axis
Hope to cover more on the Chetniks in the future.
If you want to deal with the topic of Chetniks, you must understand that there were 11 groups in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia. Communist history is as much a lie as communism itself. I did a little research. You had the Yugoslav Army in the homeland commanded by Dragoljub Mihailović, who fought against the fascists and communists until the end of the war. You had Kosta Pecanac's Chetniks who cooperated with the fascists. You have to dig very deep into a very sensitive topic.
I understand. Thanks for sharing.
Actually, Mihailovic fought against Axis usually by words only. Mihailović men did kill Kosta Pećanac and few other prominent Serbian collaborators, did something useful to Allied cause. BUT, HE PERSONALLY offered to help Germans in Divci in 1941, but Germans didn't trust him. Germans did occasionally attack Mihailović and his men, but after Stalingrad, Kursk, Italian capitulation, Normandy and loss of Ukraine, Belarus, Germans now needed Mihailović. They allowed transfer of Serbian State Guard under Mihailović command. Mihailović men under Jevđević and Đujić fled to German held Slovenia and joined to Ljotić's forces there. Đurišić attempted to do same after his split with Mihailović, but was defeated, captured and killed by Ustashes in Stara Gradiška. At very end of WW2 in Europe, he sent some of his men to (German held) Slovenia to place Ljotić's 'volunteers' and chetniks who were already there under his command.
Have to mention other units under the command of Wehrmacht, some originated from Serbia, some from ISC-NDH, some from Greater Albania - all being from territories of disbanded Yugoslavia.
There were 4 SS units of such kind:
7 SS PRINZ EUGEN, Germans from both Serbian and Romanian Banat;
13 SS HANDZAR, or 1st Croatian, the muslims Bosniaks from the ISC;
21 SS SKENDERBEG, Albanians from Kosovo in Greater Albania;
23 SS KAMA, or 2nd Croatian, with muslims Bosniaks from the ISC.
Under the Hitler rule, Bosniaks were considered to be Croats, while during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia they were considered to be Serbs.
They all fought anti guerilla warfare on the Balkans, protected the retreat of Army Group E from the Greece to the ISC and further.
Yugoslavia was destined for disbanding due to its ethnic diversity.
Obviously, communist partisans were not that popular nor numerous.
This video focuses on Serbian collaborators in occupied Serbia. But thanks for sharing.
You forgot about Serbian SS Gestapo and Rigelnatter unit, which were ideologically-motivated collaborators, you could make a video about them some time, although there's not a lot of sources about them
You have some sources?
@@HistoryHustle Except Wikipedia, all of my sources are on Serbian
@@HistoryHustle This is the only thing I could find on english, and it's sad because it's so short, I found a multiple page PDF document about it on Serbian, but here you go either way
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Belgrade_Special_Combat_detachment
Stefan you keep surprising me ...probably a bit more information about that Banat " black police' ,also those chetnic formations you have mentioned as part of SDK most people do not distinguish from Yugoslav. Army in Homeland ( JVUO) under general Mihailovic which were coloquialy known as " chetnics" but Mihailovic and general command never used that name but only JVUO ( Jugoslavenska vojska u otadzbini) .The best formations of Yugoslav Army in Homeland that were stationed in Serbia were fighting SDK and " black chetnics" and for every killed colaborationist Wernacht police units would kill ten Serbian hostages .That's how two aunties of my father lost their husbands back in summer of 1943. Serbian Volunteer Corp conducted operation against Yugislav Army in Homeland in western Serbia and they got their butts kicked in a fair fight against Montenegro brigade of Zlatibor corp...SDK attached and started burning village and were filming the whole operation and our guys came from.all sides and repulsed the attack .They lost the tanks and people At least one officer was German who prior to the war married in Serbia and adopted Serbian name and nationality .He was killed in that tank and he was filming the whole action against sympathisers - civilians and families of Yugoslav Army in Homeland .When they talk about that formation YAIH ( JVUO) as colaborationist it does not make any logical or historical sense .They started very first Guerilla war against Nazis in occupied Europe and were active not only in Serbia but throughout the whole Yugoslav Kingdom during 1941/45 .against nazism,but it was also war for survival ,war against communists and war against the whole scale genocide that has been perpetrated not only by Croats but by everybody except Greek,Slovenes, Italians and Romanians .All the others were busy hunting Serbs ...Thank you Stefan ...so if you can pls do a better research regarding Yugoslav Army in Homeland because those sources that claim colaborationist nature of that movement any time in the war are communist fakes .Partisans themselves were collaborating with Croatian fascists,Wernacht ,Bosnian Muslim militia and Italians in Kosovo and Metohia and their Albanian quisings.During the march 1943. communist partisans send their deputies to Zagreb to offer military alliance to Wernacht and they offered military aid to the Germans and Italians in the case that Allies invade the Adriatic coast ....That is very important ! Mihailovic was always busy fighting red and black fascists ..
Let me tell you this: The Serbian Volunteer Corps did become part of Waffen SS, but! Because the war was nearing, and they evacuated from their own country because of Tito to Slovenia, they didn’t recieve the uniforms like waffen SS or anything, if there was enough time, they would have the uniforms.
I believe so too.
@@yellowwasprakija2869 da jeste
@@yellowwasprakija2869 ima dokumenata, mrzi me da trazim sad.. al cak su dobili novo ime: Srpski SS korpus.. dobili su priznanje ko SS 1944e, al ne uniforme jer su Saveznici vec sve okupirali i nije bilo vremena za uniforme SS i srpske znakove
@@yellowwasprakija2869 1944e su bili SS.. veliki pozdrav i za vas! :)
5:25 this is Milutin Nedić, Milan's brother
Check.
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Well about the Chetnik movement, or officialy Yugoslav Army in Fatherland - it was anti-fascist movement and fought against Germans and collaborators. But on autumn 1944., the movement totally collapsed, the most of its fighters joined to the partizans or or surrendered to them. Some isolated groups decided to join axis forces to fight the communists (this cirumstance was mass expolited by thw Partisans in order to show Chetniks as collaborators), but was tricked and attacked by Ustashas near Banja Luka. The last of the least chetniks (not more than a few thousand) retreated with German army to Austria.
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This is not intended to minimize or deny the crimes of the Nedic regime, but anyone who equates the Government of National Salvation/Nedic-Regime with any of the Axis states I urgently recommand to seek mental treatment
One wise man once sad: everthing stated before the word 'but' is not honest.
@9:32 those are not Serbians at all. Those are Croatian regulars,(Domobrani) with German Army personnel.
Thank you for this episode of a very troubling aspect of the end of the war. I believe some of these soldiers together with their families were repatriated to the USSR, per the Yalta agreement. I haven’t read the whole book, “Betrayal at Yalta”, by Tolstoy, but I read enough to know that it marked a black spot on the allies’ capitulation to Stalin.
Thanks once again for watching, Eleanor!
Good video. But the Chetniks, in Serbia alone, did not collaborate in an organized manner with the Gernans. There is no document to confirm this. But, there is an agreement about joint collaboration against chetnicks and western powers (if they would land in Yugoslavia) between the partisans (communist resistance movement) and the Germans from March 1943, in Gornji Vakuf, in the middle of the Ustasha genocidal state. You might check that out. Best regards from Serbia 🇷🇸
Thanks for watching. There sure is more to discover about the Chetniks. As for the lack of documents, that's a tricky subject since I know many documents have been destroyed. There is however lot of photographic evidence of Chetniks collaborating with the Axis and other evidence also. Yet, some Chetniks remained in the resistance. Hope to cover the Chetniks more indepth in the future.
@@HistoryHustle I too, hope you will cover it. You should cover communist collaboration also. I'm fun of your channel and I will continue to subscribe. Greetings 😎
Glad you are subscribed. Best regards.
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The Serbs also dished out tremendously. Wasnt worth for the Germans to wake up such a sleeping giant. Is it kown how many divisions (Croatian Ustasha and German) were needed trying to keep the Partisans "under control"?
A lot.
@@HistoryHustle do we know numbers? Iv been researching for quite.
Have to research that.
Finally.... Here in Serbia right wing parties are saying Serbia was only country that never had ss divisions... This one is example that Serbia had it. Serbian Volunteer Corps.
Ok.
Friend, there were two types of Chetniks. Collaborative Chetniks of Vojvoda Kosta Milovanović Pećanac and the Allied army led by Army General Dragoljub Draža Mihailović. They were called Chetniks.
See my video on the Chetniks.
In one number of German magazine Der Sturmer the unit was glorified as ,,Defenders of Europe" and had large respect by Germans for their bravery and dedicated battle against communism.
When Serbian Volunteer Command was formed it had 2000 fighters, mostly students from student Wing of Zbor known as White Eagles, they cleansed the territory of South Belgrade from Partisans, about 120 Serbian Volunteers was able to defeat nearly 1000 partisans, there was written this command that the commander shouted before the charge ,,follow me my children, for God!"
you forgot Kurt Waldheim!!!!!
Please explain.
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@@HistoryHustle Even better!
There is one very important lesson here that people always skip, including this video and that is those people were before the war pro-Yugoslav and didn't like Nazism. Nedic was highely decorated General who earned glory during Great War while fighting Germans and Austrians. Some say he was sennile and didn't know what he was doing, but I highly doubt. Ljotic was a General of Yugoslavia and had somewhat unhealty loyalty to the King as well as religious fanaticism. Dragi Jovanovic was the one who hunted Ustase and Communists for the good Yugoslavia and even uncovered and destroyed the plot of Ustase to kill the King. Point is all those people were pro-Yugoslavs and anti-fascist, but the moment Germans came they became ultrantionalist German bootlickers who killed everyone they didn't like. Only Ljotic didn't betray his ideals because he was always like that which I don't know if that makes him as bad as everyone else or maybe the worst of them all.
The lesson that needs to be taken from this is that people in power have only one ideology and that is power. That's all they want and that's all they care. Today they are the most democractic people im the world because it gives them power, but tomorrow they will be the most hardcore fasctists because it will give them power and they will get there and keep themselves there even if they have to walk trough the mountains of corpses and more often then not they do exactly that.
It was a complicated situation. Thanks for your insights.
Serbia, as a republic in its boundaries, had a lot of traitors and collaborators and among all of the ex-yugoslav republics the lowest number of partisans. Serbia recently rehabilitated the chetnik movement, something that even Croatia did not do with the Ustashe regime. But lets not forget that many Serbs in other parts of Yugoslavia fought bravely within Partisan movement
Most of the countries have their traitors and collaborators. On the other things you wrote please do some more research if you want to know something.
@@wanamaker92 I know, dont you worry about me
@@zenica12 so you know how many crimes partizans did in the WW II. Excellent
Why so agitated?
@@HistoryHustle im not, just he is not telling the truth. The truth is that chetniks and partisans also collaborated with germans. But of coruse you knot history of my ppl and im not
100 Serbs (civilians) shot for 1 dead german soldier, 50 for wounded, during ocupation.
Brutal repression indeed.
Poland and the USSR for sure. In the Netherlands there were reprisals too with hostages. Very bad, but not as bad as in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
@@yellowwasprakija2869 Also in Greece
My grandfather said the same thing 😢.
Confusing history. Russian-German soldiers? In Yugoslavia? Under a regime installed by the Germans, but tension between them?
I'm sure there were. Do notice many Russians joined the Germans. Covered that in other episodes.
I wonder why they collabarated 🤔
Some because of ideology, but I guess most did it to have a job and survive. At the end it turned out the had bet on the wrong horse.
@@HistoryHustle yes, but why work for someone who thought your race was inferior? In the end we may never know what went in those men's minds while helping the axis
For both the Nazis and Ukrainians I guessed pragmatism had the upper hand.
@@sensibleshinchan1019 Pomagali su da ne bi zavladao boljševizam.
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Forgot main collaboration army- Tito and partisans. In 1943. Koca Popovic was in German military camp where they congratulated him his birthday. And there is also Vladimir Velebit whose father in Zagreb was war friend with the Glese von Horstenau, Glese tried in NDH to prevent some genocides but was utterly ignored by Hitler and he later wrote,, Between Hitler and Pavelic". In the agreement with Stalin the Churchill putted in works to change wind of support and expel Draza and czchetniks from any future plans and to support Tito communists. That happened in 1943. Nevertheless Draza in 1944. saved +500 Ally pilots and was awarded by president Truman after the war with highest decoration of the USA.
Also look at Ivo Rukavina the Tito's communist and Juco Rukavina the usashe commander of Pavelic.The two brothers were link connectors between partisans and ustashe.
Tito, Pavelic and Germans all were terrified by colonel or general Draza Mihailovic so those 3 worked together on elimination of Serbs. Later in 1946.
German SS colonel for Balkan Wilhelm Fuchs would say
,, Draza was no. 1 enemy of the Reich, we were taught to hunt anyone that represented or supported him and his movement... "
after this visibly unsatisfied communist judge Minic throws Fuchs from the court.
Bullshit
Didn't forget the partisans because they are mentioned but not according to your anecdotal farfetched theory.
@@HistoryHustle You can check any of this informations anytime.
@@user-vt8oq6cw1q No he can't, your fairy tales are not actually facts
Quick question. Why were collaborates from all over Europe persecuted, sometimes killed. But the Jewish capos in the camps who treated their own people cruelty with their batons not? Women had their hair shaved even kids were shunned. But the capos who kept order in the camps were left in peace. Always wondered why so.
I'm not sure the capos went out free. I read reports they were sometimes killed by inmates upon liberation. Perhaps it was easy for them to get out. Since most Jews suffered horrible, if they could prove they were Jewish also, perhaps no further questions were asked.
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They had trials. Found in enemy uniforms
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Tito's communist partisans, who had won the war, had put everyone else in the same basket. The reality is - some communists were collaborating with the Germans when it was needed, as were some chetniks. For example, Milan Nedic, the prime minister during the occupation, officially collaborated with the Germans, but secretly sent aid to the chetniks of Draza Mihailovic. Another politician, Dimitrije Ljotic, was, as it seems to be, pro-Nazi, but he had minor influence. General Draza Mihailovic - labeled by the communists as a traitor - was given the highest medals of France and the United States after the war - the War Cross and the Legion of Merit, respectfully, so he definitely was not a collaborationist. There were, in fact, two resistance movements in Serbia and the Serb-inhabited areas of Yugoslavia - Tito's communist partisans and Mihailovic's royalist chetniks. They fought the occupiers together at first, then split due to ideological differences which they could not reconcile. They both collaborated with the occupiers when needed. Both Tito and Draza were wanted by the Nazis dead or alive - and the reward for both was the same - 100,000 Reichsmarks in gold. The two leaders and movements also fought each other in a brutal civil war, that still divides the Serbian nation. The Serbian people either joined the partisans or the chetniks. Often, brothers were on the opposite sides, fighting each other. The communists had won the civil war, and, as we all know, the victors write history. They made everyone else traitors and collaborators, but only themselves as liberators. The reality on the ground was much more complex and much more different than they had taught us in school for decades.
It is indeed complex but I have never heard of Partisans working with the Axis powers.
The Serbian people overall were American Allies in both world wars, which cannot be said for the others in the former Yugoslavia. Why don't you make a video on the Halyard Mission, when the Serbian royalists - the chetniks - rescued more than 500 US airmen from behind enemy lines... the biggest rescue of American soldiers in history, done by the chetniks of Draza Mihailovic and the Serbian people who sheltered the Americans, risking everything... or make a video how, for one day in 1918, the Serbian flag flew over the White House... Such was the Serbian nation. Only in the case of Serbs did Hitler order - for each wounded German soldier, 50 random Serbs to be shot. For each dead German soldier, 100 random Serbs to be shot. This resulted in massive German shootings of civilians in Serbian towns - Kragujevac and Kraljevo. I don't know if you made a video on that. When the school students were lined up to be shot by a German firing squad, their teacher said, Shoot, I am still delivering a lesson.
Interesting but one sided reply. Despite their rescue attempts the Chetniks did commit terrible crimes, as did the Germans, Italians, Ustasha and Partisans.
You have a good idea to explain the role of Serbia in WW2 but your video is full of mistakes. For example on 5:32 you speak about serbian general Milan Nedic, but you put photo of his brother general Milutin Nedic. Be careful whit that in future.
What are the other mistakes then?
@@HistoryHustle When you speak about Serbian volunteer corps you said that they made by chetniks and members of ZBOR. Chetniks don't have nothing with Serbian volunteer corps, they was in civil war from 1942 untill summer 1944. Also chetniks of general Draza Mihailovic was antiaxis untill the end of the war. In autumn 1944. chetniks liberted many of towns in Serbia from Germans and also before, in late summer 1941. they started uprising and liberted town of Loznica in west Serbia from Germans.
I refer to my sources.
I believe there isn't such a thing as "the Chetniks" since some units collaborated and others not.
@@TheRadovan89 Both the Chetniks and the SDK were based Heroes.
0:37 "Serbia basically is not ruling over other south Slav nationatlites" . That is lie of enemies of Serbs and also
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From left ( proSoviet Communists ) to Right ( Fascists - in Yugoslavia Croats, Muslims...) and from foreign ( Italy and finally Nazi Germany ).
I see. I believe this is the Serbian perspective.
@@HistoryHustle Sorry I must repeat. 0:37 "Serbia basically is not ruling over other south Slav nationatlites" . You believe this is a Serbian perspective. No. That is basically not true.
The monarchy did opress other nationalities in one way or another, the gypsy king got what he deserved
@@nonameacc King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic is not be opresed any ethic or religious group. He is only mistake he did not make Great Serbia like Great Britain in 1918. No tought
that South Slavs are was enough been slaves and the time for liberation is come.
However, fascism is rising in that time and killed him.
@@borkokostic4388 Yeah tell that fairy to someone else, he got what he deserved and so did his failed nation.
LOL.
By this logic
US sided with Axis because of Washington legion.
Or USSR Because of RONA and ROA.
Nedić Had only 1 500 man.
I never stated Serbia as a nation sides with the Axis..
Excellent work. BZ
November 1941, Mihajlo Olcan, a minister in Nedic’s government boasted that “Serbia has been allowed what no other occupied country has been allowed and that is to establish law and order with its own armed forces”. Indeed, with Nazi blessings, Nedic established the Serbian State Guard, numbering about 20,000, compared to the 3,400 German police in Serbia. Recruiting advertisements for the Serb police force specified that “applicants must have no Jewish or Gypsy blood”. Nedic’s second in command was Dimitrije Ljotic organized the Serbian Volunteers Corps, whose primary function was rounding up Jews, Gypsies, and partisans for execution. Serbian citizens and police received cash bounties for the capture and delivery of Jews. The Serbian government under General Milan Nedic worked closely with local German officials to make Belgrade the first “Judenfrei” city of Europe.
As for the partisan side, have you covered the sjort lived Republic of Užice?
You sound like Serbia was privileged in Hitler's Reich, but in truth Serbia was literally occupied territory. Also statement that Nedić's forces numbered 20.000 men are inaccurate. Indeed Nedić's policemen numbered a lot, but were only armed with pistols and not much rifles, also many of them joined uprising in July and August 1941. In fact only 3000-5000 men were in Nedić military which in fact operated in anti-partisans actions.
In winter 1941/1942 Germans couldn't rellay on Nedić's small units, so Hitler required from Bulgarian government few divisions, and indeed almost whole war Bulgarian controlled situation in Serbia.
In contrast, we know that Independent State of Croatia had tens of thousands soldiers, and was de jure independent state, with full nazi support.
Communist secessionist politics in act, announcing the federalization and division of the country in the federal Republics.
With all the reforms proclaimed by the Tito, serbian anti communist sentiment was horrified and shocked.
@@FilipPetrovic999 The title of the video is "Serbian Collaboration during World War II"
I did not say Serbia was privileged although Nedic apparently thought they were. "19 September 1943, Nedic made an official visit to Adolf Hitler, Serbs in Berlin advanced the idea that the Serbs were the “Ubermenchen” (master race) of the Slavs."
Every source has the SDS with 17,000 men or more, even Wijipedia says 25,000 - 30,000.
They collaborated more than just anti-partisan actions .
Historical Archives in Belgrade reveal that Banjica, a concentration camp located in Belgrade, was primarily staffed by Serbs. Funding for the conversion of the former barracks of the Serbian 18th infantry division to a concentration, came from the municipal budget of Belgrade. The camp was divided into German and Serbian sections. From Banjica there survive death lists written entirely in Serbian in the Cyrillic alphabet. At least 23,697 victims passed through the Serbian section of this camp. Many were Jews, including at least 798 children, of whom at least 120 were shot by Serbian guards.
WWe haven;t even mentioned their role in the fate of the Zigeuner.
If I ever get there on location I'll cover the Republic of Užice.
@@HistoryHustle Goes without saying thsat it will be worth the wait.
chetniks fought axis
what do you talk about
Initially yes. Then they collaborated. More details in another video I made.
Kosta Pecanac? On je Bio malo sjeban. Ali Cetnici pod Drazom nisu sardjivali sa nemcima. Jedino je Djuric bio zasticen, jel su italijani bojali da ce Ustase zauzeti sve. Isto su se zgrozili Ustasama (2. italijanska Armija u balkanu), pa su poceli da stite civile. Ali on to zna, Bio je u srbiji, ali nije to tema ovoj dokumentaciji. POGLEDI je dobar kanal.
This is the best and most objective coverage of WWII history that I have seen. Israeli propaganda has made heavy use of the fact that Husseini, a Palestinian established a Bosnian Nazi Corp, but the bigger picture here is that all of Yugoslavia participated on the side of the Nazis whether they were Muslim or not. I find when reviewing historical events, it is good to establish a baseline for normality.
Dunno how Israel is relevant to this video. Sure there were Muslim collaborators but most fought for the Allies at the end.
Don't just say that Dragoljub Draža Mihajlović was a traitor as the communists declared him. Mihajlovic had the only free territory in Europe, the so-called Uzice Republic. I love watching your shows because of your reality and your knowledge. I can tell you that you know the history of my people better than most of my people. You could have a little more recent history, for example, the seizure of the part of Serbia by Kosovo by the Albanian separatists with the help of America, NATO and Bill Clinton. On the crimes against the Serbian people by the Albanians in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and the continuation of the crimes of the 70s, 80s and 90s. About the yellow house where Albanians took out organs from Serbs and sold them to buy weapons.
I didn't even mention Dragoljub Draža Mihajlović in this video...
Your theory btw comes across as very one sided. I cannot confirm your last claim. Don't overlook what Serbia did in the 1990s. It would be unjust to state Serbia was only a victim in that era.
@@HistoryHustle It is not unfair to say that Serbia was a victim. Is Ukraine a victim now or is the war in Ukraine justified? The same scenario is in 1999, when Albanian terrorists and separatists attacked Serbs in Kosovo and NATO bombed Serbia from 19 countries because it was defending its territory. And now that Russia is attacking Ukraine. Or that is not the case when it comes to Serbia. Can small countries be robbed of their territories? NATO mostly targeted civilian targets, e.g. the maternity hospital has a video you probably haven't seen, a civilian train, an open-air market with a cluster bomb, bridges, the chemical industry in Pancevo near the city, the Chinese embassy, a column of refugees from Kosovo that killed about 90 civilian women and children and the elderly plus about 150 lightly and severely wounded. About 3,000 civilian casualties in 78 days and all were characterized as collateral damage.
I'm against communism but what you wrote is false. Tito liberated Uzice not Mihailovic.
@@ZlatnoPeroTV Tito was not in Serbia until the Russians (Red Army) appeared. You succumbed to communist propaganda.
@@ZlatnoPeroTV Mihailović liberated sity Loznica 31.08.1941,Banja Koviljača 06.09.1941,Gornji Milanovac 28.09.1941.Čačak and Požega 01.10.1941.
Hitler had a puppet in Serbia. Milan Nedic and the Serbian Gestapo. Serbia was the first nation declared Juden Frei. Even before the Baltic states. Unlike Marshall Tito and the partisans. Serb Chetniks would rescue Allied and German pilots. There is an excellent book out. Called the Serb Propaganda Machine and the Deceit of History. Late 90,s.
Thanks for sharing.
Hahah Serbia my friend was the first who stand up against Nazzi Germanz in 27 March and because of that Belgrade was bombed in 6 april by Nazzi Germany. Stop with your fake information
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Tanki ste sa znanjem iz moderne istorije Srbije i kasnije Jugoslavije . Uopšte dešavanja od početka 20veka do 1990te godine na prostoru ex yu slabo poznajete . Što se tiče prve i druge Jugoslavije , svetosavski nacionalizam je bio taj dinamit u temelju obe Jugoslavije !
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@@HistoryHustle Please ignore this Ortodox zealot and alternative history they've been teaching them since 2000. Everything you said is spot on. He's just triggered that you called out Nedic.
I see.
@@Sleepery22 Traitorous communist.
in early 1942 or 1943 i think German General Meysner came with the idea that Serbian volunteer corps should be transformed to Waffen-SS division, they would recieve german uniforms, insignia and would take oath to Hitler. But with strong disagreement of Nedic and Ljotic, and low moral of Serbs for it, it was refused.
In 1944 in Slovenia Serbian Volunteer Corps became Serbian SS Corps, but they were not fully SS unit, rather they were just put under the command of the SS, beside previously used weaponry, only significant component of German equipment were German belts, although some of the volunteers did had Wehrmacht uniforms, most of them had old Yugoslav army uniforms with their own insignia, reason for this was because of expenses and Germans being unable to provide them.
the first picture you gave is not milan nedic.its his brother milutin nedic.and you forget to introduce pecanac chetniks.they are official chetniks. different from the unofficial mihailovich chetiniks and dinara division,radic contingent(this two is the NDH's chetniks that collaborate with NDH).I from china.
I stand corrected on that picture.