Both the Yugoslav Partisans and the Chetnik movement initially resisted the occupation. However, after 1941, the Chetniks adopted a "policy of collaboration." They collaborated extensively and systematically with the Italian occupation forces until the Italian capitulation, and thereon also with German and Ustaše forces. The Axis mounted a series of offensives intended to destroy the Partisans, coming close to doing so in winter and spring of 1943. Despite the setbacks, the Partisans remained a credible fighting force, gaining recognition from the Western Allies and laying the foundations for the post-war Yugoslav state. With support in logistics, equipment, training, and air power from the Western Allies, and Soviet ground troops in the Belgrade Offensive, the Partisans eventually gained
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| - Both the Yugoslav Partisans and the Chetnik movement initially resisted the occupation. However, after 1941, the Chetniks adopted a "policy of collaboration." They collaborated extensively and systematically with the Italian occupation forces until the Italian capitulation, and thereon also with German and Ustaše forces. The Axis mounted a series of offensives intended to destroy the Partisans, coming close to doing so in winter and spring of 1943. Despite the setbacks, the Partisans remained a credible fighting force, gaining recognition from the Western Allies and laying the foundations for the post-war Yugoslav state. With support in logistics, equipment, training, and air power from the Western Allies, and Soviet ground troops in the Belgrade Offensive, the Partisans eventually gained
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Strength
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- 321000(xsd:integer)
- 800000(xsd:integer)
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Commander
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- Dobroslav Jevđević
- Draža Mihailović
- Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
- Mario Roatta
- Maximilian von Weichs
- Alexander Löhr
- Josip Broz Tito
- Kosta Nađ
- Sava Kovačević
- Fyodor Tolbukhin
- Peko Dapčević
- Aleksandar Ranković
- Ante Pavelić
- Arso Jovanović
- Boris Kidrič
- Dido Kvaternik
- Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
- Franc Rozman Stane
- Ivan Gošnjak
- Kosta Pećanac
- Koča Popović
- Leon Rupnik
- Milan Nedić 14px
- Milovan Đilas
- Momčilo Đujić
- Pavle Đurišić 14px
- Petar Baćović 14px
- Petar Drapšin
- Sekula Drljević
- Sir Fitzroy Maclean
- Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo
- Vojislav Lukačević
- Zaharije Ostojić 14px
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Chetniks
- VNS
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Caption
| - Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces, Draža Mihailović confers with his troops, a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia, Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission
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Casualties
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- 24267(xsd:integer)
- 209000(xsd:integer)
- 237000(xsd:integer)
- Germany:
- Croatia:
- Partisans:
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Result
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| - Civilians killed: ~581,000 Total Yugoslav casualties: ~1,200,000
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a Axis puppet regime established on occupied Yugoslav territory
- b Resistance movement. Engaged in collaboration with Axis forces from mid-1942 onward, lost official Allied support in 1943. Full names: initially "Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army", then "Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland".
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- Chetniks
- Partisans
- VNS
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Conflict
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combatant3a
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- Bulgaria
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