By Miloslav Samardzic The first known German broadsheet announcing the executions of Serbs due to railway sabotage is dated June 12, 1942. On that day, the Germans shot three rail workers in Smederevo, claiming they had destroyed the brakes on a train. US Col. Robert McDowell, the most educated Allied officer in Yugoslavia during the

March 25, 1941 Prime Minister Dragisha Cvetkovic and German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop are shown signing the accession of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Tripartite Pact in Vienna.   March 27, 1941 The Tripartite Pact with the Axis powers was short-lived and the regency government in Belgrade was deposed; Prince Pavle was replaced on the

Documentary TV series: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia in World War Two The war in the Balkans from 1941 to 1945, examined for the first time in a documentary that is not colored by ideology. This exclusive series is based on actual documents from all of the participants in the war: The Military Archives in Belgrade,

By Carl Savich The Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the Second World War is the second part of a documentary series consisting of sixapproximately 30 minute episodes. This series continues from part one which consisted of six episodes that examined the German invasion and subsequent occupation and dismemberment of Yugoslavia. The documentary series is a production

By Novica Lukic, grandson Novica was born on September 14th, 1919 in Sljivovac, a village near Kragujevac, in Sumadija, the heart of Serbia, as fourth son of father Milutin and mother Ljubica. After Elementary school and College, he went to the Military boarding school, and in 1937 as a graduated cadet, works in the “Military

Lt. Colonel Borislav Todorovic (Belgrade 1913 – New York 1984), Supreme Command Liaison Officer with Foreign Military Missions. In 1942, Todorovic escaped from a German Camp and crossed France,  Spain  and finally reached Portugal on foot. He returned to the country landing safely by a parachute in 1943. After the war,  he achieved the “American

Comparing the Serbian village of Licka Jesenica with the Croatian village of Saborsko, one can see and evaluate the work of the partisans, whose goal was the destruction of the Serbian people. Such was the contrast between the Serbian and Croatian villages throughout Croatia By Major Milivoje VUKSANOVIC   On the morning of December 14,

By Miloslav Samardzic The first comprehensive uprisings occurred in the Western Serbian regions in reaction to the horrific and murderous crimes of the Ustashi who seriously concentrated on slaughtering Serbian children immediately after the Axis Powers proclaimed the “Independent Sta­te of Croatia” (ISC) in Zagreb on April 10th 1941. These crimes lead to the emergence

All photos courtesy of the Brkljac Collection April 25, 2009 By Dragoljub Brkljac April 2009   ANZAC Day is a national remembrance day in Australia and is celebrated annually on April 25th, to remember members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought bravely at Gallipoli, Turkey during the First World War. ANZAC Day

Association “Serbian Chetniks of Australia” celebrated its Patron Feast’s Day February 2011 – 13:16 On Saturday, February 19th 2011, the Association “Serbian Chetniks of Australia” (SCA) from Sidney celebrated its first Patron Saint’s Day (slava). After the model of the chetnik organization from the beginning of the 20th century, the SCA as its Patron Saint’s