Nastanak nacionalnih pokreta otpora u Srbiji 1941. godine
The Emergence Of The National Resistance Movements In Occupied Serbia 1941

Summary/Abstract: The article provides an account to emergence of the national resistance movements in occupied Serbia 1941. Two organisations were present. The remnants of the Yugoslav Army, which refused to accept the act of capitulation and to surrender their arms, led by the Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović. And the other one: the Chetnik organisation led by the First World War resistance hero and reserve officer Kosta Pećanac. After the creation of the Serbian government with General Milan Nedić in early September 1941, their officials followed Nedić’s instructions to establish the contact with national resistance groups. The main effort was to stop the Communist action, which caused brutal German reprisals. But unfortunately, those efforts led to the firm division between the Mihailović military organisation which maintained the inheritance of the pre-army and the Nedić government. On the other side, Pećanac Chetnik organisation, after the differentiation in some areas, joined the Nedić’s government side, and German occupation apparatus, and started to fight against the Communist and Mihailović’s resisters.

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