Chetniks in World War 2 - Chetnik (Ravna gora) movement

Chetniks in World War 2

Chetnik (Ravna gora) movement

Chetnik flag from The FAME
Inscription on the flag:
Za Kralja i OtadÅ¾binu / For King and Fatherland
Sloboda ili Smrt / Freedom or Death

History

Chetnik movement during World War 2 lacked strong centralized leadership compared to Communist resistance and local groups usually fought individually although as the war progressed most acknowledged Mihailovic as supreme commander and joined his Yugoslav Army of the Homeland - JVUO.

History of Chetniks before WW2

Chetnik command during Yugoslav Kingdom and April war

Beginning of Chetnik movement

Chetnik movement in Serbia

Chetniks of Kosta Pecanac

Chetniks of Draza Mihailovic:

Chetnik detachments of Yugoslav army / Military-Chetnik detachments
Royal Yugoslav Army of the Homeland - JVUO

Corps of Royal Yugoslav Army of the Homeland

Chetnik movement in Monte Negro

From uprising to collaboration

Chetniks in Independent State of Croatia

Forming
Collaboration with Italians in NDH
Collaboration with NDH
Chetniks of Momcilo Dujic

Dinara division

Chetnik movement in Slovenia

Biographies

Momcilo Djujic

Nikola Kalebic

Dragoljub Draza Mihalovic

Zvonimir Zvonko Vuckovic 'Feliks'

Recommended reading

A Balkan Tragedy, Yugoslavia 1941-1946: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Fighter by Zvonimir Vuckovic

Chetnik: The Story of the Royal Yugoslav Army of the Homeland, 1941-1945 by Momcilo Dobrich

Britain, Mihailovic and the Chetniks, 1941-42 by Simon C. Trew

Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 by Marko Attila Hoare

The Chetniks: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 by Jozo Tomasevich

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