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89 relations: Adolf Hitler, Allies of World War II, Artillery, Axis powers, Čačak, Škofja Loka, Battalion, Bijelo Polje, Bjelovar, Brigade, Captain (armed forces), Case White, Chetniks, Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Communism, Corps, Counterinsurgency, Croatia, Dimitrije Ljotić, Division (military), Draža Mihailović, Dragiša Vasić, Dragoslav Račić, Dragutin Keserović, Drava, Enlisted rank, Fascism, Fifth column, Gornji Milanovac, Government of National Salvation, Gymnasium (school), Independent State of Croatia, Invasion of Yugoslavia, Italian governorate of Montenegro, Josip Broz Tito, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kosta Mušicki, Kragujevac massacre, Kraljevo massacre, League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Lieutenant, Lim (river), Ljubić (Čačak), Milan Nedić, Miokovci, Mobilization, Nationalism, Neretva, Nikšić, ... Expand index (39 more) »
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
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Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
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Čačak
Čačak (Чачак) is a city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia.
Škofja Loka
Škofja Loka (Bischoflack) is a town in Slovenia.
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Battalion
A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into a number of companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain.
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Bijelo Polje
Bijelo Polje (Бијело Поље) is a town in Montenegro in the northern region on the Lim River.
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Bjelovar
Bjelovar (Belovár, Bellowar, Czech: Bělovar or Bělovár, Kajkavian: Belovar, Latin: Bellovarium) is a city in central Croatia.
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Brigade
A brigade is a major tactical military formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements.
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Captain (armed forces)
The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.
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Case White
Case White (Fall Weiss), also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive (Četvrta neprijateljska ofenziva/ofanziva), was a combined Axis strategic offensive launched against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
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Chetniks
The Chetniks (Četnici,; Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini; Jugoslovanska vojska v domovini) and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.
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Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion." Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops they believed would liberate their countries from colonization.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Corps
Corps (plural corps; from French corps, from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization.
Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
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Dimitrije Ljotić
Dimitrije Ljotić (Димитрије Љотић; 12 August 1891 – 23 April 1945) was a Serbian and Yugoslav fascist politician and ideologue who established the Yugoslav National Movement (Zbor) in 1935 and collaborated with German occupational authorities in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia during World War II. Predrag Raković and Dimitrije Ljotić are people from the Kingdom of Serbia, Serbian anti-communists and Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany.
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Division (military)
A division is a large military unit or formation, usually consisting of between 10,000 and 25,000 soldiers.
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Draža Mihailović
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović (Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. Predrag Raković and Draža Mihailović are people from the Kingdom of Serbia, royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II and Serbian anti-communists.
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Dragiša Vasić
Dragomir "Dragiša" Vasić (Драгиша Васић; 2 September 1885 – 20 April 1945) was a Serbian lawyer, writer and publicist who became one of the chief Chetnik ideologues during World War II. Predrag Raković and Dragiša Vasić are people from the Kingdom of Serbia.
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Dragoslav Račić
Dragoslav Račić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Рачић; 24 March 1905 – November 1945) was a Serbian Chetnik military commander holding the rank of colonel and voivode during World War II. Predrag Raković and Dragoslav Račić are royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II, Serbian anti-communists and Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany.
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Dragutin Keserović
Dragutin Keserović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Кесеровић; 21 November 1896 – 17 August 1945) was a Yugoslav Chetnik military commander holding the rank of lieutenant colonel and vojvoda during World War II. Predrag Raković and Dragutin Keserović are royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II and Serbian anti-communists.
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Drava
The Drava or Drave (Drau,; Drava; Drava; Dráva; Drava), historically known as the Dravis or Dravus, is a river in southern Central Europe. by Jürgen Utrata (2014). Retrieved 10 Apr 2014. With a length of,, 27 November 2014 or, if the length of its Sextner Bach source is added, it is the fifth or sixth longest tributary of the Danube, after the Tisza, Sava, Prut, Mureș and likely Siret.
Enlisted rank
An enlisted rank (also known as an enlisted grade or enlisted rate) is, in some armed services, any rank below that of a commissioned officer.
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Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Fifth column
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.
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Gornji Milanovac
Gornji Milanovac (Гoрњи Милановац) is a town and municipality located in the Moravica District of central Serbia.
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Government of National Salvation
The Government of National Salvation (Vlada narodnog spasa; Regierung der nationalen Rettung, VNS), also referred to as Nedić's government or Nedić's regime, was the colloquial name of the second Serbian collaborationist puppet government established after the Commissioner Government in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II in Yugoslavia.
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Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
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Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Invasion of Yugoslavia
The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II.
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Italian governorate of Montenegro
The Italian governorate of Montenegro (Governatorato del Montenegro) existed from October 1941 to September 1943 as an occupied territory under military government of Fascist Italy during World War II.
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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz (Јосип Броз,; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (Тито), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980.
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Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia (Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882.
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941.
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Kosta Mušicki
Konstantin Mušicki (Константин Коста Мушицки; 7 April 1897 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav brigadier general who commanded the collaborationist Serbian Volunteer Corps during World War II. Predrag Raković and Kosta Mušicki are royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II.
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Kragujevac massacre
The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac by German soldiers on 21 October 1941.
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Kraljevo massacre
The Kraljevo massacre was the World War II mass murder of approximately 2,000 residents of the city of Kraljevo in the German-occupied territory of Serbia between 15 and 20 October 1941 by the German Army.
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League of Communists of Yugoslavia
The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia.
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Lieutenant
A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.
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Lim (river)
The Lim (Serbian Cyrillic: Лим) is a river that flows through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and is long.
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Ljubić (Čačak)
Ljubić (Љубић) is a settlement in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia.
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Milan Nedić
Milan Nedić (Милан Недић; 2 September 1878 – 4 February 1946) was a Yugoslav and Serbian army general and politician who served as the chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army and minister of war in the Royal Yugoslav Government. Predrag Raković and Milan Nedić are royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II, Serbian anti-communists and Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany.
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Miokovci
Miokovci (Миоковци) is a village in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia.
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Mobilization
Mobilization (alternatively spelled as mobilisation) is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
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Neretva
The Neretva (Неретва), also known as Narenta, is one of the largest rivers of the eastern part of the Adriatic basin.
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Nikšić
Nikšić (italic), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 (2011 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa Hill.
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Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer (short: Ostuf) was a Nazi Germany paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.
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Officer
An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization.
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Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.
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Operation Mihailovic
Operation Mihailovic was the final World War II German anti-guerrilla offensive to suppress the Serbian Chetnik detachments of the Yugoslav Army, headed by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović.
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Operation Uzice
Operation Uzice was the first major counter-insurgency operation by the German Wehrmacht on the occupied territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II.
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Osijek
Osijek is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021.
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.
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Pčelić
Pčelić is a village in Croatia.
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Priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.
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Prijevor, Čačak
Prijevor (Пријевор) is a village located in the city of Čačak, Serbia.
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Puppet state
A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders.
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Quartermaster
Quartermaster is a military term, the meaning of which depends on the country and service.
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Rasina Corps
The Rasina Corps was a corps of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (JVuO) that operated in the region of Kruševac county of Axis occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia) under command of Dragutin Keserović.
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Ravna Gora (highland)
Ravna Gora (Равна Гора) is a highland in central Serbia, at the mountain of Suvobor.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Reprisal
A reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them.
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Republic of Užice
The Republic of Užice (Ужичка република) was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1941 in occupied Yugoslavia, more specifically the western part of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.
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Royal Yugoslav Army
The Yugoslav Army (Југословенска војска, ЈВ), commonly the Royal Yugoslav Army, was the land warfare military service branch of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (originally Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes).
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Sandžak
Sandžak (Санџак) is a historical geo-political region located in the southwestern part of Serbia and the eastern part of Montenegro.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church (Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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Serbian Volunteer Corps (World War II)
The Serbian Volunteer Corps (Српски добровољачки корпус, Srpski dobrovoljački korpus, SDK for short; Serbisches Freiwilligenkorps), also known as Ljotićevci (Љотићевци), was the paramilitary branch of the fascist political organisation Zbor, and collaborated with the forces of Nazi Germany in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II.
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Serbs
The Serbs (Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language.
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.
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Siege of Kraljevo
The siege of Kraljevo was the most important battle during the uprising in Serbia in 1941.
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Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Suvobor
Suvobor (Serbian Cyrillic: Сувобор) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Gornji Milanovac.
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Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was placed under a military government of occupation by the Wehrmacht following the invasion, occupation and dismantling of Yugoslavia in April 1941.
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Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu (in that order) and in the presence of Adolf Hitler.
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Trnava (Čačak)
Trnava is a small town in the municipality of Čačak, Serbia.
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Uprising in Serbia (1941)
The Uprising in Serbia was initiated in July 1941 by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia against the German occupation forces and their Serbian quisling auxiliaries in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.
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Ustaše
The Ustaše, also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croatian, fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret).
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yugoslav coup d'état
The Yugoslav coup d'état took place on 27 March 1941 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, when the regency led by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was overthrown and King Peter II fully assumed monarchical powers.
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Yugoslav National Movement
The Yugoslav National Movement (Jugoslavenski narodni pokret, Југословенски народни покрет), also known as the United Militant Labour Organization (Združena borbena organizacija rada / Здружена борбена организација рада, or Zbor / Збор), was a Yugoslav fascist movement and organization led by politician Dimitrije Ljotić.
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Yugoslav Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: Partizani, Партизани or the National Liberation Army,Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); Народноослободителна војска (НОВ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska (NOV) officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia,Народноослободилачка војска и партизански одреди Југославије (НОВ и ПОЈ); Народноослободителна војска и партизански одреди на Југославија (НОВ и ПОЈ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska in partizanski odredi Jugoslavije (NOV in POJ) was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
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Zeta (river)
The Zeta (Serbian Cyrillic: Зета) is a river in Montenegro.
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40th Infantry Division Slavonska
The 40th Infantry Division Slavonska was an infantry formation of the Royal Yugoslav Army that formed part of the 4th Army during the German-led Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941.
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See also
Military personnel from Čačak
- Dragutin Gavrilović
- Ilija Čolak-Antić
- Jovan Deroko
- Jovan Kursula
- Predrag Raković
Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany
- Bogoljub Kujundžić
- Dimitrije Ljotić
- Dobroslav Jevđević
- Dragoslav Račić
- Josif Kostić
- Kosta Kumanudi
- Lazar Tešanović
- Lazo M. Kostić
- Milan Aćimović
- Milan Nedić
- Miloš Radosavljević (politician)
- Milorad Nedeljković
- Miroslav Trifunović
- Momčilo Đujić
- Ognjen Kuzmanović
- Panta Draškić
- Pećanac Chetniks
- Predrag Raković
- Ratko Parežanin
- Stanislav Krakov
- Stevan Moljević
- Stojimir Dobrosavljević
- Uroš Drenović
- Vučko Ignjatović