07-05-2014, 11:36 PM
Italy in WW2 – Yugoslavia
By Miloslav Samardzic
The first phase of the Serb uprising in 1941 in the west of Yugoslavia caused much restructuring and major changes among the Axis forces.
Officially, Germans, Italians and Croats were united against the common enemy, the Serbs. However, since the summer of 1941, in practice things were different. Now you had the Italians and Serbs standing against the Germans and Croats. American historian specializing in Italian documents, H. James Burgwyn, does not use quotation marks when referring to Serbs and Italians as allies. On the other hand, Burgwyn describes relations between Germany and Italy in occupied Yugoslavia as a “cold war.”
”Italians clashed with the Croats over territory. However, their officers and soldiers, seeing the extent of genocide against the Serbs and Jews in the NDH, took these people under their protection in the entire period that followed”, says Milutin Velisavljevic, historian...
http://kingdom-of-yugoslavia-in-ww2.com/...ugoslavia/
By Miloslav Samardzic
The first phase of the Serb uprising in 1941 in the west of Yugoslavia caused much restructuring and major changes among the Axis forces.
Officially, Germans, Italians and Croats were united against the common enemy, the Serbs. However, since the summer of 1941, in practice things were different. Now you had the Italians and Serbs standing against the Germans and Croats. American historian specializing in Italian documents, H. James Burgwyn, does not use quotation marks when referring to Serbs and Italians as allies. On the other hand, Burgwyn describes relations between Germany and Italy in occupied Yugoslavia as a “cold war.”
”Italians clashed with the Croats over territory. However, their officers and soldiers, seeing the extent of genocide against the Serbs and Jews in the NDH, took these people under their protection in the entire period that followed”, says Milutin Velisavljevic, historian...
http://kingdom-of-yugoslavia-in-ww2.com/...ugoslavia/