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The Chetniks (Serbo-Croatian: Четници, Četnici, pronounced [tʃɛ̂tniːtsi]; Slovene: Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (Serbo-Croatian: Југословенска војска у отаџбини, Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini; Slovene: Jugoslovanska vojska ...
Chetnik, member of a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force that formed during World War II to resist the Axis invaders and Croatian collaborators but that primarily fought a civil war against the Yugoslav communist guerrillas, the Partisans.
The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist -led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters.
The Chetniks in the Second World War. The Emergence of the Ravna Gora Chetnik movement / Yugoslav Army in the Homeland. Following the capitulation of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Chetnik command and its battalions ceased to operate. However, a group of officers and soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army who refused to surrender and leave the ...
The Chetniks (Serbian/Croatian Cyrillic/Latin: Четници/Četnici) were members of a guerrilla movement that emerged at the beginning of the Second World War in Yugoslavia under the leadership of Dragoljub Draža Mihailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Дража Михаиловић).
The Chetniks, formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.
He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationalist movement and guerrilla force established following the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Born in Ivanjica and raised in Belgrade, Mihailović fought in the Balkan Wars and the First World War with distinction.
