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The Chetniks were a resistance movement during World War II. After the axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, resistance movements formed to fight the occupying Axis powers. One of them were the Chetniks led by Draža Mihailović (a general in the royal Yugoslav army). They faced opposition from the Communist Yugoslav Partisans, even though they fought together in the first few battles, the Chetniks started collaborating with the Axis in late 1941. In 1944–45, the Germans and the Chetniks were losing the war. The Partisans won the war in May 1945 and Mihailović was executed the next year.^[1]

Notes and References

↑ Lindybeige. Yugoslavia in World War Two - a tale of resistance, collaboration, and betrayal (2020-07-01). Retrieved 2024-08-21.

Chetniks Media

Vojin Popović with a group of Chetnik commanders in 1912
A group of Chetniks in the early 1920s
Illustration of the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia
Route of Dragoljub's march from Bosnia to Ravna Gora
Colonel Draža Mihailović as a Yugoslav military attaché in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1937
Draža Mihailović (centre with glasses) confers with his principal political adviser Dragiša Vasić (second from right) and others in 1943
The extent of Greater Serbia envisaged by Moljević
A Chetnik with a M37 light machine gun
Women Chetniks in units of Momčilo Đujić
The Chetniks and the Partisans led captured Germans through Užice, autumn 1941.

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[1] Lindybeige. Yugoslavia in World War Two - a tale of resistance, collaboration, and betrayal (2020-07-01). Retrieved 2024-08-21.

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