CHARACTER CHETNIK MOVEMENT IN SERBIA IN 1941. AS REASON FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE REHABILITATION ACT Cover Image

KARAKTER ČETNIČKOG POKRETA U SRBIJI 1941. KAO POVOD ZA DONOŠENJE ZAKONA O REHABILITACIJI
CHARACTER CHETNIK MOVEMENT IN SERBIA IN 1941. AS REASON FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE REHABILITATION ACT

Author(s): Boris Kršev
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Latar Vrkatić
Keywords: Chetniks; Dragoljub Mihailovic; Serbia 1941; fascism; collaborationism; revisionism;

Summary/Abstract: All wars, regardless of their character, ending with somebody winning and somebody’s defeat, and extremely rare cases unsolved - agreement and reconciliation. Hence they all just such a trial afterward - winner organizes trial defeated. Winners never quite the victory and defeated, forced to remain silent - accept responsibility and guilt for the war. But, surely sizes winner was even greater, if he were willing to acknowledge the defeated and arranges him (if it is already necessary) a fair trial. It is unfortunate for all of Yugoslavia, particularly the Serbian people, the protagonists of the liberation movements in the second put the struggle against the occupation, and the showdown with ideological rival in first. Every moment was used to disqualify and slight ideological opponents, and neither of the trials defeated ideological movement is nothing more could be expected. If in any case during the trial, identify and publicly recognize irrefutable facts about the character of the Chetnik movement which had in Serbia in 1941. and then to the other years of the war (as well as the broader Yugoslav space), it might not have discussed the impact of the law on the rehabilitation of the historical facts. Such are the qualifications set forth in the “ideological” charges and “rigged” judicial proceedings D. Mihailovic was used to go to the other extreme. However, these features of the Chetnik movement in Serbia in 1941, will be sufficient for the passage of the Rehabilitation Act perform a complete audit of his character that he had in other years of the war.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 138-165
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Serbian