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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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  • Yugoslav Front
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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
Strength
  • 262000(xsd:integer)
  • 321000(xsd:integer)
  • 800000(xsd:integer)
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Partof
Date
  • --04-06
Commander
  • 14(xsd:integer)
  • 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
combatant1a
  • 1942(xsd:integer)
  • ---- Chetniks
  • VNS
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
Casualties
  • 12060(xsd:integer)
  • 24267(xsd:integer)
  • 209000(xsd:integer)
  • 237000(xsd:integer)
  • Germany:
  • Croatia:
  • Partisans:
Result
  • Allied victory
Notes
  • Civilians killed: ~581,000 Total Yugoslav casualties: ~1,200,000 ---- 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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  • 1941(xsd:integer)
  • Chetniks
  • Partisans
  • VNS
Place
Conflict
  • Yugoslav Front
combatant3a
  • 1942(xsd:integer)
  • Bulgaria
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