Ликвидације као један од облика борбе комунистичких илегалаца у Београду током 1941. године
Assassinations as One of the Way of the Resistance in Belgrade During the Year 1941

Summary/Abstract: Communist Party of Yugoslavia organized and led armed uprisings against the occupier and collaborationists since July 1941. The role of the assassinations, as the way of insurrection, changed due to possibilities and Political Platform of the Communist Party. Until the September 1941, small number of assassinations was done, so the precedence came to the particular actions, in order to provide resistance of the population, overcoming into the mass uprising. The Party leadership was forced to change resistance organizational politics due to repeated arrests, so the assassination strategy intended for occupiers and collaborationists became the only way of the people stand up against the occupation regime. We tend to conclude, the Party failed in its primary cause of disabling and destabilizing the enemy, despite the implementation of the system senior officials assassinations strategy. The essence of failure regards to the enemy armed force, so the retaliation as the answer on the Party actions. The occupant measures resulted with small numbers of attacks on a German soldiers - every attack meant the execution of Communist Movement members. So the result was attacks on members of the Special Police Department of the Administration of the City of Belgrade, as well informed of the organizational structure, membership and implementation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia politics. Agents of the Special Police Department came to the top of the Communist Party enemies list, right after the arrest of 510 communists, during the year 1941. Psychological effect which caused organized assassinations should not be ignored, too. German soldiers, so the system collaborationists could not feel safe on the streets of that time Belgrade, despite the precautions. Most of the planned assassinations failed. The reason of it regards assassinator himself – often imprecise, insufficiently trained, and undisciplined. Considering the fact, that most of them were pupils when the war started, or worked in factories and its first experience, in weapon handling, often was, just before the action, its acts demand respect and this work represents the overview on it.

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