PRILOG PROUČAVANJU KARAKTERA USTANKA U SRBIJI 1941. GODINE
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE REVOLT IN SERBIA IN 1941

Summary/Abstract: The revolt against German rule, which took place in occupied Serbia in 1941, was dominated both by the bourgeois, legalistic movement, official named Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini’ and headed by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailovic, and by the communist NOP, whose nucleus was the Yugoslav Communist Party. The revolt gained intensity in September, compelling the German authorities in Serbia to seek the aid of the Wehrmacht. General Franz Bohme, who consequently arrived in Serbia on September 19th with the assignment of suppressing the revolt, resorted to methods of ruthless reprisal aimed at the civil population. At the same time, conflicts arising between the partisan and the chetnik movements began to surface. The variance was manifested in their opposing views regarding the struggle and in their political differences. Along with the war of liberation, the NOP simultaneously conducted a revolution - a struggle for a ruling position. The chetnik movement would not accept this and in November 1942 civil war broke out in Serbia, considerably weakening the revolt. The differences between the opposing sides were so great that they remained unresolved until the end of the war. The revolt in Serbia was crushed towards the end of November and the beginning of December 1941, with minimal German and great Serbian losses. The operation of quenching the revolt was carried out thoroughly in respect to both the NOP and the chetnik movement of D. Mihailovic.

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