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Milan Nedić

Milan Nedić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Недић; 2 September 1878 – 4 February 1946) was a Yugoslav and Serbian army general and politician who served as the chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army and minister of war in the Royal Yugoslav Government. During World War II, he collaborated with Nazi Germany and served as the prime minister of the puppet government of National Salvation, in the German occupied territory of Serbia. After the war, the Yugoslav communist authorities imprisoned him. In 1946, it was reported that he had committed suicide. He was included in the 100 most prominent Serbs list. There have been attempts since the 2000s to present Nedić's role in World War II more positively. All applications to rehabilitate him have so far been refused by the official Serbian courts.

Milan Nedić
Official portrait, 1939
Prime Minister of the Government of National Salvation
In office
29 August 1941 – 4 October 1944
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Interior of the Government of National Salvation
In office
5 November 1943 – 4 October 1944
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byTanasije Dinić
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of the Army and Navy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
In office
26 August 1939 – 6 November 1940
MonarchPeter II
Prime MinisterDragiša Cvetković
RegentPaul
Preceded byMilutin Nedić
Succeeded byPetar Pešić (acting)
Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Armed Forces
In office
1 June 1934 – 9 March 1935
MonarchsAlexander I
Peter II
Prime MinisterNikola Uzunović
Bogoljub Jevtić
RegentPaul
Preceded byPetar Kosić (acting)
Succeeded byPetar Kosić (acting)
Personal details
Born(1878-09-02)2 September 1878
Grocka, Principality of Serbia
Died4 February 1946(1946-02-04) (aged 67)
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Cause of deathSuicide by jumping
SpouseŽivka Pešić
Children5
RelativesMilutin Nedić (brother)
Dimitrije Ljotić (cousin)
Alma materMilitary Academy
Military service
Allegiance Kingdom of Serbia (1904–1918)
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)
 Nazi Germany (1941–1945)
Branch/serviceRoyal Serbian Army
Royal Yugoslav Army
Years of service1904–1941
Rank Army general (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
Commands3rd Army Group
Battles/wars
Awards Albanian Commemorative Medal

Early life

Milan Nedić was born in the Belgrade suburb of Grocka on 2 September 1878 to Đorđe and Pelagia Nedić. His father was a local district chief and his mother was a teacher from a village near Mount Kosmaj. She was the granddaughter of Nikola Mihailović, who was mentioned in the writings of poet Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and was an ally of Serbian revolutionary leader Karađorđe. The Nedić family was originally from the village of Zaoka, near Lazarevac. It traced its origins to two brothers, Damjan and Gligorije, who defended the Čokešina Monastery from the Turks during the Serbian Revolution. The family received its name from Nedić's great-grandmother, Neda, who was a member of the Vasojevići tribe from modern-day Montenegro.[1]

Military and political career

Nedić finished gymnasium in Kragujevac in 1895 and entered the lower level of the Military Academy in Belgrade that year. In 1904, he completed the upper level of the academy, then the General Staff preparatory, and was commissioned into the Serbian Army.[2] In 1910, he was promoted to the rank of major. He fought with the Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars, and received multiple decorations for bravery. In 1913, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served with the Serbian Army during World War I and was involved in rearguard actions during its retreat through Albania in the winter of 1915. That year, he was promoted to the rank of colonel. At 38, he was the youngest colonel in the Serbian General Staff. He was appointed ordnance officer to King Peter in 1916. Towards the end of the war, Nedić was given command of an infantry brigade of the Timok Division.[1]

Nedić remained a brigade commander within the Timok Division until the end of 1918 and served as the 3rd Army chief of staff.[1] Beginning in 1919, he also served as the de facto head of the 4th Army District in Croatia because its nominal commander, General Božidar Janković, was old and infirm. Nedić's cousin, Dimitrije Ljotić, and their mutual friend Stanislav Krakov, also served in the 4th Army District and were commanded by Nedić.[3] When the Royal Yugoslav Army (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Vojska Kraljevine Jugoslavije, VKJ) was formed in 1919 he was absorbed into the army at the same rank. He was promoted to Divizijski đeneral in 1923, and subsequently commanded a division then was Secretary-General of the Committee of National Defence. In 1930, Nedić was promoted to the rank of Armijski đeneral,[1][a] and assumed command of the 3rd Army in Skoplje.[5] Nedić was appointed Chief of the General Staff in June 1934, and held this position until the following year,[1] when he became the third member of the Military Council, probably because of his strained relations with the Minister for the Army and Navy, Petar Živković. At the time, British diplomatic staff observed that he was "somewhat slow-thinking and obstinate".[6] On 13 August 1939, Nedić was appointed Minister of the Army and Navy as part of the Cvetković–Maček Agreement.[7][8] Ljotić later assisted the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Central Office, RSHA) in establishing contacts with him.[9] He also exploited the connections he had with Nedić to ensure that the banned Zbor-published journal Bilten (Bulletin) was distributed to members of the VKJ. The journal was published illegally in a military printing house and distributed throughout Yugoslavia by military couriers.[10]

Because of his disapproval of a potential participation in the war against Adolf Hitler's Germany, Nedić was dismissed on 6 November 1940 by Prince Paul. This was most likely out of unease with Nazi Germany's ally, Fascist Italy which at the time harboured the Croatian extreme nationalist Ustashe leader Ante Pavelić in exile in Rome, and because of the rhetoric of some Italian fascists in the past such as the late Gabriele D'Annunzio, who were violently opposed to a Yugoslav state. Nedić welcomed the coup d'état of March 1941 which deposed the regime that had signed the Tripartite Pact, and commanded the 3rd Army Group in the German-led Axis invasion that followed.[11]

German-occupied territory of Serbia

Wehrmacht commander Heinrich Danckelmann decided to entrust Nedić with the administration of German-occupied territory of Serbia in order to pacify Serb resistance. Not long before, Nedić had lost his only son and pregnant daughter in law in a munitions explosion in Smederevo, in which several thousands died. He accepted the post of the prime minister in the government called the Government of National Salvation, on 29 August 1941. At the same time mass imprisonment of the Jews started where police and gendarmerie of quisling government under Nedić assisted the Germans in arresting the Jews.[12]

On 1 September 1941 Nedić made a speech on Radio Belgrade in which he declared the intent of his administration to "save the core of the Serbian people" by accepting the occupation of Germany in the area of Šumadija, Drina Valley, Pomoravlje and Banat. He also spoke against organizing resistance to the occupying forces. His state's propaganda was funded by Germany and promoted anti-Semitism and anti-communism, particularly linking these up with anti-masonry.[13] In his speeches he uses terms such as "Communist-Jewish rabble" and "Communist-Masonic-Jewish-English mafia".[12] According to historian Milivoj Bešlin, terms from the categorical apparatus of Nazism "white race", "pure race", "aryanism", etc, was used by Nedić's propaganda, while he strongly advocated protection of the Serbian people from "irregular mixtures". Also in that context, Nedić's government brought regulations for implementing the policy of the occupation authorities about losing the rights to work of Romani and Jewish population.[14] In March 1942, Nedić established the Serbian State Guard (Srpska državna straža) who together with the Gestapo participated in the guarding of the Banjica concentration camp, and were responsible for the killings of inmates, including children.[15] In October 1943, the State Guard came under control of the SS. Its members were also engaged in the execution of captured Partisans.[16]

The puppet government under Nedić accepted many refugees mostly of Serbian descent.[17] The civil war unleashed in the German-occupied territory of Serbia was the cause of the loss of as many or even more lives than German terror. In total, between 141,000 and 167,000 people died in Serbia of war-related causes. These deaths included 34,000 killed by the Germans and their Serb helpers, 46,000 deaths in prisons and camps, and 33,000 Chetnik and 42,000 Partisan combatants. At least 300,000 people were deported from Serbia or held in prisons and concentration camps.[18] German reprisals demanded that 100 Serbs be killed for each killed German soldier and 50 for each wounded German soldier,[19] as in the Kragujevac massacre.[20] Nedić implemented Hitler's anti Semitic policies and Belgrade became the first city in Europe to be declared Judenfrei ("clean of Jews") while Serbia itself was declared as such in August 1942.[21][22][23] Nedić also secretly diverted money and arms from his government to the Chetniks.[24][25] The military forces of Ljotić and Nedić together with the Wehrmacht participated in anti-Communist operations.[26] In the 1942 Christmas address, he announced that "the old world, which had destroyed our state, is over and replaced by the new one. This new world will elevate Serbia to its rightful and honorable place in the new Europe; under the new leadership (of Germany) we look courageously into the future". In 1942 he outlined a memo of his vision of Great Serbia in which Bosnia-Herzegovina, Srijem, and Dalmatia are within Serbia's borders with local population replaced by Serbian settlers.[27] On 28 February 1943, the commanding general in Serbia reduced the reprisal orders to 50 hostages for each German soldier, armed forces employee, civilian or Bulgarian soldier killed, and 25 for each German or Bulgarian wounded.[19] Nedić was received by Adolf Hitler in September 1943 when they talked about security and order in the occupied territory,[28] also at that meeting Nedić requested the annexation of East Bosnia, Montenegro, the Sanjak, Kosovo-Metohija and Srem. Joachim von Ribbentrop opposed Nedić’s demands which forced Hitler to appease Nedić by promising him concessions elsewhere.[29] Nedić's Ministry of Education, Ljotić and the intellectuals from the Zbor prepared Serbia and its youth by changing the education system in order to prepare the society for Hitler’s New Europe, in which anti-Semitism and anti-Communism were integral parts of the new ideological framework.[26] About the "great" Adolf Hitler hundreds of texts was written by Nedic's propaganda.[30]

On 4 October 1944, with the successes of the Red Army, Bulgarian Army and Yugoslav Partisans and their combined onslaught on Belgrade, Nedić's puppet government was disbanded, and on 6 October Nedić fled from Belgrade to Kitzbühel, Austria (then annexed to Germany) where he took refuge with the occupying British. On 1 January 1946, the British forces handed him over to the Partisans.

He was incarcerated in Belgrade on charges of treason. On 4 February 1946, it is believed that Nedić either jumped out of the window of the Belgrade hospital where he was being detained or that he was pushed out to his death.[31] According to official records, he committed suicide by jumping through the window.[32] According to the Register of Victims Killed after 12 September 1944, Nedić was "liquidated".[33]

Recently, Miodrag Mladenović, a former officer with the Yugoslavian OZNA, said that on 4 February 1946, he received an order to pick up a dead body at Zmaj Jovina street, where the prison was located at the time. When he arrived there, the body was already wrapped in a blanket and rigor mortis had already set in. Following the orders given to him, he took the body to the cemetery where it was buried in an unusually deep grave. He never attempted to see the face of the person that he was carrying, but the day after, he read in the news that Nedić had committed suicide by jumping through the prison window at Zmaj Jovina street.[34]

Legacy

During the Miloševic era, the regime and some Serb historians found it extremely important to win over eminent Yugoslav Jewish organizations and individuals for the idea of the joint Serbo-Jewish martyrdom. To accomplish it, regime historians had to falsify history by obscuring the fact that Milan Nedic and Dimitrije Ljotić had cleansed Serbia of its sizeable Jewish population by deportations of Jews to East European concentration camps or killing them in Serbia.[35]

The 1993 book The 100 most prominent Serbs published by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts included an entry on Nedić in which its editor, the art historian and its editor Dejan Medaković, claimed that Nedić was "one of the most tragic figures in Serbian history" whose collaboration saved "a million Serbian lives". Patriarch Pavle held a memorial service for Nedić in 1994, during which he justified his collaboration with Nazi Germany on the grounds that it was "the only way to save the Serbian people from the revenge of the occupiers".[36]

After 2000, revisionists' demands for the rehabilitation of Milan Nedić began.[37] The minor Serbian Liberal Party attempted to promote his rehabilitation as an anti-Nazi, who did his best in an impossible situation, sparking controversy in Serbia.[38] The publisher of a 2002 secondary school history textbook, Nebojša Jovanović, told the daily Politika that collaboration with the Nazis was a way of preserving the ‘biological substance of the Serbian people".[36]

Nedić's portrait was included among those of Serbian prime ministers in the building of the Government of Serbia.[39] In 2008, the Minister of Interior and Deputy PM Ivica Dačić removed the portrait after neo-Nazi marches were announced in the country.[40][41] Revisionist interpretations required that Nedić's collaboration with the occupying forces and responsibility for the execution of Jews under his rule be obscured, in order to remember him as the "savior of the Serbian people".[41]

On 11 July 2018, The Higher Serbian Court in Belgrade rejected an application to rehabilitate the quisling Prime Minister of occupied Serbia during World War II, Milan Nedić.[42] During the rehabilitation trial, historian Bojan Dimitrijevic from the Institute for Contemporary Serbian History claimed, based on archived documents, that Nedić was not directly involved in the persecution and killing of Jews. According to Dimitrijevic, Nedić's administration only registered Jews and gave them fake Serbian documents while the Germans rounded them up and performed all the executions.[43][44]

Other sources claim that it was Nedić's role to protect Serbs from further executions in NDH and by Germans in Serbia by aiding in the persecution of Jews. Among other things, his regime confiscated and sold the property of Jews after they were executed by Germans, who were not interested in buying the homes and lands of Jews in Serbia.[45]

According to historian and President of the Jewish community in Belgrade, Jaša Almuli, one of the major reasons behind the killing of 11,000 Jews in Serbia by Germans was through reprisals for resistance against Germans in occupied Serbia and that Jews were killed for the same reasons as Serbs: to fulfill Hitler's quota towards Serbs and Serbia: for a wounded soldier to kill 50 and for a dead German soldier to kill 100 people. For that reason, together with Serbs and Gypsies, about 5,000 Jews were shot. German SS General Harald Turner was the main culprit behind the shooting of Jews in occupied Serbia.[46]

According to Philip J. Cohen, in Nedić's Serbia about 15,000 Jews perished or 94% of Serbian Jews.[47] According to Jelena Subotić, 27,000 Jews out of 33,500 in pre-occupied Serbia were killed in the Holocaust, and another 1,000 from central Europe, mostly from Czechoslovakia and Austria. Of the approximately 17,000 Jews who resided in German-occupied Serbia, 82% of them were killed early on, including 11,000 Belgrade Jews.[48]

During the COVID-19 pandemics in 2020, school classes were presented on the Radio Television of Serbia. One lecture for eighth grade students caught attention of the Serbian public. The teacher spoke positively about Milan Nedić and his role in WWII, even though such opinions are not based on the official textbook for the 8th grade.[49] Dubravka Stojanović commented on this lecture and emphasized that the games played with fascism and anti-fascism when it comes to "basic good and evil" brought the society into complete disorientation. She also pointed out that she often warned about the problems of revisionist history and rehabilitation of collaborators from WWII in history textbooks.[50]

Works

  • Srpska vojska i solunska ofanziva, 1932[51]
  • Kralj Aleksandar Prvi Ujedinitelj: kao vojskovođ, 1935[52]
  • Srpska vojska na Albanskoj Golgoti, 1937[53]

Citations

Notes

  1. ^ Armiski đeneral was equivalent to a United States lieutenant general.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e Glas javnosti & 27 January 2006.
  2. ^ Ramet & Lazić 2011, p. 17.
  3. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 14.
  4. ^ Niehorster 2013a.
  5. ^ Jarman 1997c, p. 119.
  6. ^ Jarman 1997c, p. 120.
  7. ^ Ramet 2006, p. 107.
  8. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 18.
  9. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 20.
  10. ^ Cohen 1996, pp. 18–21.
  11. ^ Tomasevich 2001, p. 179.
  12. ^ a b Hoare 2006, pp. 156–162.
  13. ^ . Chgs.umn.edu. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  14. ^ Milivoj Bešlin; (2020) "Srpska majka" i rehabilitacija kvislinga u Srbiji ("Serbian Mother" and quisling rehabilitation in Serbia) {Nedić je snažno zagovarao čuvanje srpskog naroda od „nepravilnih mešavina“, njegova propaganda je frekventno koristila termine iz kategorijalnog aparata nacizma „čista rasa“, „bela rasa“, „arijestvo“ itd. U tom kontekstu Nedićeva vlada je donela niz uredbi kojima je implementirala politiku okupacionih vlasti o gubljenju prava na rad jevrejskog i romskog stanovništva..Nedic strongly advocated the protection of the Serbian people from "irregular mixtures", his propaganda frequently used terms from the categorical apparatus of Nazism "pure race", "white race", "Aryanism", etc. In this context, Nedic's government passed a series of decrees implementing the policy of the occupation authorities on the loss of the right to work of the Jewish and Roma populations} [1]
  15. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 39, 49.
  16. ^ Ramet 2006, p. 130.
  17. ^ Tomasevich 2001, p. 217.
  18. ^ Prusin 2017, p. 180.
  19. ^ a b Tomasevich 2001, p. 216.
  20. ^ Byford 2011a, p. 303.
  21. ^ Cox 2002, pp. 92–93.
  22. ^ Morton, J.; Forage, P.; Bianchini, S.; Nation, R. (2004). Reflections on the Balkan Wars: Ten Years After the Break-Up of Yugoslavia. Springer. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-40398-020-5.
  23. ^ Subotić 2019, p. 3.
  24. ^ Tomasevich 2001, pp. 216–217.
  25. ^ Hoare 2006, p. 293.
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  30. ^ Milivoj Bešlin; (2020) „Srpska majka“ i rehabilitacija kvislinga u Srbiji ("Serbian Mother" and quisling rehabilitation in Serbia) {Nedićeva propaganda je napisala stotine tekstova o “velikom” Adolfu Hitleru, ali ni jedan o streljanjima civila u Kraljevu i Kragujevcu, oktobra 1941...Nedic's propaganda wrote hundreds of texts about the "great" Adolf Hitler, but none about the shootings of civilians in Kraljevo and Kragujevac in October 1941} [2]
  31. ^ Ramet & Lazić 2011, p. 38.
  32. ^ Đureinović, Jelena (2019). The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution. Routledge. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-00075-438-4.
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  35. ^ Perica 2002, p. 151.
  36. ^ a b Byford 2011b, p. 110.
  37. ^ Himka & Michlic 2019, p. 646.
  38. ^ Lazić 2011, p. 269.
  39. ^ Ramet, Sabrina P. (2011). Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Springer. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-23034-781-6.
  40. ^ Omaljev, Ana (2016). Discourses on Identity in 'First' and 'Other' Serbia: Social Construction of the Self and the Other in a Divided Serbia. Columbia University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-3-83826-711-1.
  41. ^ a b Himka & Michlic 2019, p. 647.
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  44. ^ Subotić 2019, p. 89.
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  48. ^ Subotić 2019, pp. 53–54.
  49. ^ Nedeljnik.rs (24 March 2020). ""Heroj, junak, najvažnija ličnost...": TV nastavnik istorije šokirao javnost lekcijom o Milanu Nediću, takvih reči nema ni u jednom udžbeniku". Nedeljnik. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  50. ^ Milica Rilak; (2020) Sraman čas istorije na RTS: Nedić heroj, spasavao izbeglice (Shameful history lesson on RTS: Nedic is a hero, he saved refugees), Nova S, [3]
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Milan Nedic Serbian Cyrillic Milan Nediћ 2 September 1878 4 February 1946 was a Yugoslav and Serbian army general and politician who served as the chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army and minister of war in the Royal Yugoslav Government During World War II he collaborated with Nazi Germany and served as the prime minister of the puppet government of National Salvation in the German occupied territory of Serbia After the war the Yugoslav communist authorities imprisoned him In 1946 it was reported that he had committed suicide He was included in the 100 most prominent Serbs list There have been attempts since the 2000s to present Nedic s role in World War II more positively All applications to rehabilitate him have so far been refused by the official Serbian courts Milan NedicOfficial portrait 1939Prime Minister of the Government of National SalvationIn office 29 August 1941 4 October 1944Preceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byOffice abolishedMinister of Interior of the Government of National SalvationIn office 5 November 1943 4 October 1944Prime MinisterHimselfPreceded byTanasije DinicSucceeded byOffice abolishedMinister of the Army and Navy of the Kingdom of YugoslaviaIn office 26 August 1939 6 November 1940MonarchPeter IIPrime MinisterDragisa CvetkovicRegentPaulPreceded byMilutin NedicSucceeded byPetar Pesic acting Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Armed ForcesIn office 1 June 1934 9 March 1935MonarchsAlexander IPeter IIPrime MinisterNikola UzunovicBogoljub JevticRegentPaulPreceded byPetar Kosic acting Succeeded byPetar Kosic acting Personal detailsBorn 1878 09 02 2 September 1878Grocka Principality of SerbiaDied4 February 1946 1946 02 04 aged 67 Belgrade PR Serbia FPR YugoslaviaCause of deathSuicide by jumpingSpouseZivka PesicChildren5RelativesMilutin Nedic brother Dimitrije Ljotic cousin Alma materMilitary AcademyMilitary serviceAllegiance Kingdom of Serbia 1904 1918 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918 1941 Nazi Germany 1941 1945 Branch serviceRoyal Serbian ArmyRoyal Yugoslav ArmyYears of service1904 1941RankArmy general Kingdom of Yugoslavia Commands3rd Army GroupBattles warsBalkan Wars World War I Serbian army s retreat through Albania World War II in Yugoslavia Invasion of YugoslaviaAwardsAlbanian Commemorative Medal Contents 1 Early life 2 Military and political career 3 German occupied territory of Serbia 4 Legacy 5 Works 6 Citations 6 1 Notes 6 2 Footnotes 7 References 8 External linksEarly life EditMilan Nedic was born in the Belgrade suburb of Grocka on 2 September 1878 to Đorđe and Pelagia Nedic His father was a local district chief and his mother was a teacher from a village near Mount Kosmaj She was the granddaughter of Nikola Mihailovic who was mentioned in the writings of poet Sima Milutinovic Sarajlija and was an ally of Serbian revolutionary leader Karađorđe The Nedic family was originally from the village of Zaoka near Lazarevac It traced its origins to two brothers Damjan and Gligorije who defended the Cokesina Monastery from the Turks during the Serbian Revolution The family received its name from Nedic s great grandmother Neda who was a member of the Vasojevici tribe from modern day Montenegro 1 Military and political career EditNedic finished gymnasium in Kragujevac in 1895 and entered the lower level of the Military Academy in Belgrade that year In 1904 he completed the upper level of the academy then the General Staff preparatory and was commissioned into the Serbian Army 2 In 1910 he was promoted to the rank of major He fought with the Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars and received multiple decorations for bravery In 1913 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel He served with the Serbian Army during World War I and was involved in rearguard actions during its retreat through Albania in the winter of 1915 That year he was promoted to the rank of colonel At 38 he was the youngest colonel in the Serbian General Staff He was appointed ordnance officer to King Peter in 1916 Towards the end of the war Nedic was given command of an infantry brigade of the Timok Division 1 Nedic remained a brigade commander within the Timok Division until the end of 1918 and served as the 3rd Army chief of staff 1 Beginning in 1919 he also served as the de facto head of the 4th Army District in Croatia because its nominal commander General Bozidar Jankovic was old and infirm Nedic s cousin Dimitrije Ljotic and their mutual friend Stanislav Krakov also served in the 4th Army District and were commanded by Nedic 3 When the Royal Yugoslav Army Serbo Croatian Latin Vojska Kraljevine Jugoslavije VKJ was formed in 1919 he was absorbed into the army at the same rank He was promoted to Divizijski đeneral in 1923 and subsequently commanded a division then was Secretary General of the Committee of National Defence In 1930 Nedic was promoted to the rank of Armijski đeneral 1 a and assumed command of the 3rd Army in Skoplje 5 Nedic was appointed Chief of the General Staff in June 1934 and held this position until the following year 1 when he became the third member of the Military Council probably because of his strained relations with the Minister for the Army and Navy Petar Zivkovic At the time British diplomatic staff observed that he was somewhat slow thinking and obstinate 6 On 13 August 1939 Nedic was appointed Minister of the Army and Navy as part of the Cvetkovic Macek Agreement 7 8 Ljotic later assisted the SS Reichssicherheitshauptamt Reich Security Central Office RSHA in establishing contacts with him 9 He also exploited the connections he had with Nedic to ensure that the banned Zbor published journal Bilten Bulletin was distributed to members of the VKJ The journal was published illegally in a military printing house and distributed throughout Yugoslavia by military couriers 10 Because of his disapproval of a potential participation in the war against Adolf Hitler s Germany Nedic was dismissed on 6 November 1940 by Prince Paul This was most likely out of unease with Nazi Germany s ally Fascist Italy which at the time harboured the Croatian extreme nationalist Ustashe leader Ante Pavelic in exile in Rome and because of the rhetoric of some Italian fascists in the past such as the late Gabriele D Annunzio who were violently opposed to a Yugoslav state Nedic welcomed the coup d etat of March 1941 which deposed the regime that had signed the Tripartite Pact and commanded the 3rd Army Group in the German led Axis invasion that followed 11 German occupied territory of Serbia EditWehrmacht commander Heinrich Danckelmann decided to entrust Nedic with the administration of German occupied territory of Serbia in order to pacify Serb resistance Not long before Nedic had lost his only son and pregnant daughter in law in a munitions explosion in Smederevo in which several thousands died He accepted the post of the prime minister in the government called the Government of National Salvation on 29 August 1941 At the same time mass imprisonment of the Jews started where police and gendarmerie of quisling government under Nedic assisted the Germans in arresting the Jews 12 On 1 September 1941 Nedic made a speech on Radio Belgrade in which he declared the intent of his administration to save the core of the Serbian people by accepting the occupation of Germany in the area of Sumadija Drina Valley Pomoravlje and Banat He also spoke against organizing resistance to the occupying forces His state s propaganda was funded by Germany and promoted anti Semitism and anti communism particularly linking these up with anti masonry 13 In his speeches he uses terms such as Communist Jewish rabble and Communist Masonic Jewish English mafia 12 According to historian Milivoj Beslin terms from the categorical apparatus of Nazism white race pure race aryanism etc was used by Nedic s propaganda while he strongly advocated protection of the Serbian people from irregular mixtures Also in that context Nedic s government brought regulations for implementing the policy of the occupation authorities about losing the rights to work of Romani and Jewish population 14 In March 1942 Nedic established the Serbian State Guard Srpska drzavna straza who together with the Gestapo participated in the guarding of the Banjica concentration camp and were responsible for the killings of inmates including children 15 In October 1943 the State Guard came under control of the SS Its members were also engaged in the execution of captured Partisans 16 The puppet government under Nedic accepted many refugees mostly of Serbian descent 17 The civil war unleashed in the German occupied territory of Serbia was the cause of the loss of as many or even more lives than German terror In total between 141 000 and 167 000 people died in Serbia of war related causes These deaths included 34 000 killed by the Germans and their Serb helpers 46 000 deaths in prisons and camps and 33 000 Chetnik and 42 000 Partisan combatants At least 300 000 people were deported from Serbia or held in prisons and concentration camps 18 German reprisals demanded that 100 Serbs be killed for each killed German soldier and 50 for each wounded German soldier 19 as in the Kragujevac massacre 20 Nedic implemented Hitler s anti Semitic policies and Belgrade became the first city in Europe to be declared Judenfrei clean of Jews while Serbia itself was declared as such in August 1942 21 22 23 Nedic also secretly diverted money and arms from his government to the Chetniks 24 25 The military forces of Ljotic and Nedic together with the Wehrmacht participated in anti Communist operations 26 In the 1942 Christmas address he announced that the old world which had destroyed our state is over and replaced by the new one This new world will elevate Serbia to its rightful and honorable place in the new Europe under the new leadership of Germany we look courageously into the future In 1942 he outlined a memo of his vision of Great Serbia in which Bosnia Herzegovina Srijem and Dalmatia are within Serbia s borders with local population replaced by Serbian settlers 27 On 28 February 1943 the commanding general in Serbia reduced the reprisal orders to 50 hostages for each German soldier armed forces employee civilian or Bulgarian soldier killed and 25 for each German or Bulgarian wounded 19 Nedic was received by Adolf Hitler in September 1943 when they talked about security and order in the occupied territory 28 also at that meeting Nedic requested the annexation of East Bosnia Montenegro the Sanjak Kosovo Metohija and Srem Joachim von Ribbentrop opposed Nedic s demands which forced Hitler to appease Nedic by promising him concessions elsewhere 29 Nedic s Ministry of Education Ljotic and the intellectuals from the Zbor prepared Serbia and its youth by changing the education system in order to prepare the society for Hitler s New Europe in which anti Semitism and anti Communism were integral parts of the new ideological framework 26 About the great Adolf Hitler hundreds of texts was written by Nedic s propaganda 30 On 4 October 1944 with the successes of the Red Army Bulgarian Army and Yugoslav Partisans and their combined onslaught on Belgrade Nedic s puppet government was disbanded and on 6 October Nedic fled from Belgrade to Kitzbuhel Austria then annexed to Germany where he took refuge with the occupying British On 1 January 1946 the British forces handed him over to the Partisans He was incarcerated in Belgrade on charges of treason On 4 February 1946 it is believed that Nedic either jumped out of the window of the Belgrade hospital where he was being detained or that he was pushed out to his death 31 According to official records he committed suicide by jumping through the window 32 According to the Register of Victims Killed after 12 September 1944 Nedic was liquidated 33 Recently Miodrag Mladenovic a former officer with the Yugoslavian OZNA said that on 4 February 1946 he received an order to pick up a dead body at Zmaj Jovina street where the prison was located at the time When he arrived there the body was already wrapped in a blanket and rigor mortis had already set in Following the orders given to him he took the body to the cemetery where it was buried in an unusually deep grave He never attempted to see the face of the person that he was carrying but the day after he read in the news that Nedic had committed suicide by jumping through the prison window at Zmaj Jovina street 34 Legacy EditDuring the Milosevic era the regime and some Serb historians found it extremely important to win over eminent Yugoslav Jewish organizations and individuals for the idea of the joint Serbo Jewish martyrdom To accomplish it regime historians had to falsify history by obscuring the fact that Milan Nedic and Dimitrije Ljotic had cleansed Serbia of its sizeable Jewish population by deportations of Jews to East European concentration camps or killing them in Serbia 35 The 1993 book The 100 most prominent Serbs published by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts included an entry on Nedic in which its editor the art historian and its editor Dejan Medakovic claimed that Nedic was one of the most tragic figures in Serbian history whose collaboration saved a million Serbian lives Patriarch Pavle held a memorial service for Nedic in 1994 during which he justified his collaboration with Nazi Germany on the grounds that it was the only way to save the Serbian people from the revenge of the occupiers 36 After 2000 revisionists demands for the rehabilitation of Milan Nedic began 37 The minor Serbian Liberal Party attempted to promote his rehabilitation as an anti Nazi who did his best in an impossible situation sparking controversy in Serbia 38 The publisher of a 2002 secondary school history textbook Nebojsa Jovanovic told the daily Politika that collaboration with the Nazis was a way of preserving the biological substance of the Serbian people 36 Nedic s portrait was included among those of Serbian prime ministers in the building of the Government of Serbia 39 In 2008 the Minister of Interior and Deputy PM Ivica Dacic removed the portrait after neo Nazi marches were announced in the country 40 41 Revisionist interpretations required that Nedic s collaboration with the occupying forces and responsibility for the execution of Jews under his rule be obscured in order to remember him as the savior of the Serbian people 41 On 11 July 2018 The Higher Serbian Court in Belgrade rejected an application to rehabilitate the quisling Prime Minister of occupied Serbia during World War II Milan Nedic 42 During the rehabilitation trial historian Bojan Dimitrijevic from the Institute for Contemporary Serbian History claimed based on archived documents that Nedic was not directly involved in the persecution and killing of Jews According to Dimitrijevic Nedic s administration only registered Jews and gave them fake Serbian documents while the Germans rounded them up and performed all the executions 43 44 Other sources claim that it was Nedic s role to protect Serbs from further executions in NDH and by Germans in Serbia by aiding in the persecution of Jews Among other things his regime confiscated and sold the property of Jews after they were executed by Germans who were not interested in buying the homes and lands of Jews in Serbia 45 According to historian and President of the Jewish community in Belgrade Jasa Almuli one of the major reasons behind the killing of 11 000 Jews in Serbia by Germans was through reprisals for resistance against Germans in occupied Serbia and that Jews were killed for the same reasons as Serbs to fulfill Hitler s quota towards Serbs and Serbia for a wounded soldier to kill 50 and for a dead German soldier to kill 100 people For that reason together with Serbs and Gypsies about 5 000 Jews were shot German SS General Harald Turner was the main culprit behind the shooting of Jews in occupied Serbia 46 According to Philip J Cohen in Nedic s Serbia about 15 000 Jews perished or 94 of Serbian Jews 47 According to Jelena Subotic 27 000 Jews out of 33 500 in pre occupied Serbia were killed in the Holocaust and another 1 000 from central Europe mostly from Czechoslovakia and Austria Of the approximately 17 000 Jews who resided in German occupied Serbia 82 of them were killed early on including 11 000 Belgrade Jews 48 During the COVID 19 pandemics in 2020 school classes were presented on the Radio Television of Serbia One lecture for eighth grade students caught attention of the Serbian public The teacher spoke positively about Milan Nedic and his role in WWII even though such opinions are not based on the official textbook for the 8th grade 49 Dubravka Stojanovic commented on this lecture and emphasized that the games played with fascism and anti fascism when it comes to basic good and evil brought the society into complete disorientation She also pointed out that she often warned about the problems of revisionist history and rehabilitation of collaborators from WWII in history textbooks 50 Works EditSrpska vojska i solunska ofanziva 1932 51 Kralj Aleksandar Prvi Ujedinitelj kao vojskovođ 1935 52 Srpska vojska na Albanskoj Golgoti 1937 53 Citations EditNotes Edit Armiski đeneral was equivalent to a United States lieutenant general 4 Footnotes Edit a b c d e Glas javnosti amp 27 January 2006 Ramet amp Lazic 2011 p 17 Cohen 1996 p 14 Niehorster 2013a Jarman 1997c p 119 Jarman 1997c p 120 Ramet 2006 p 107 Cohen 1996 p 18 Cohen 1996 p 20 Cohen 1996 pp 18 21 Tomasevich 2001 p 179 a b Hoare 2006 pp 156 162 Visualizing Otherness II Center for Holocaust amp Genocide Studies University of Minnesota Chgs umn edu Archived from the original on 20 July 2011 Retrieved 16 September 2016 Milivoj Beslin 2020 Srpska majka i rehabilitacija kvislinga u Srbiji Serbian Mother and quisling rehabilitation in Serbia Nedic je snazno zagovarao cuvanje srpskog naroda od nepravilnih mesavina njegova propaganda je frekventno koristila termine iz kategorijalnog aparata nacizma cista rasa bela rasa arijestvo itd U tom kontekstu Nediceva vlada je donela niz uredbi kojima je implementirala politiku okupacionih vlasti o gubljenju prava na rad jevrejskog i romskog stanovnistva Nedic strongly advocated the protection of the Serbian people from irregular mixtures his propaganda frequently used terms from the categorical apparatus of Nazism pure race white race Aryanism etc In this context Nedic s government passed a series of decrees implementing the policy of the occupation authorities on the loss of the right to work of the Jewish and Roma populations 1 Cohen 1996 p 39 49 Ramet 2006 p 130 Tomasevich 2001 p 217 Prusin 2017 p 180 a b Tomasevich 2001 p 216 Byford 2011a p 303 Cox 2002 pp 92 93 Morton J Forage P Bianchini S Nation R 2004 Reflections on the Balkan Wars Ten Years After the Break Up of Yugoslavia Springer p 5 ISBN 978 1 40398 020 5 Subotic 2019 p 3 Tomasevich 2001 pp 216 217 Hoare 2006 p 293 a b Antic Ana 2016 Therapeutic Fascism Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order Oxford University Press pp 148 149 ISBN 978 0 19108 751 6 Prusin Alexander 2017 Serbia under the Swastika A World War II Occupation University of Illinois Press p 53 ISBN 978 0 25209 961 8 Kroener Bernhard R Muller Rolf Dieter Umbreit Hans 1990 Germany and the Second World War Volume 5 Part 2 Clarendon Press p 40 ISBN 978 0 19820 873 0 Marko Attila Hoare The Great Serbian threat ZAVNOBiH and Muslim Bosniak entry into the People s Liberation Movement PDF anubih ba Posebna izdanja ANUBiH p 123 Retrieved 21 December 2020 Milivoj Beslin 2020 Srpska majka i rehabilitacija kvislinga u Srbiji Serbian Mother and quisling rehabilitation in Serbia Nediceva propaganda je napisala stotine tekstova o velikom Adolfu Hitleru ali ni jedan o streljanjima civila u Kraljevu i Kragujevcu oktobra 1941 Nedic s propaganda wrote hundreds of texts about the great Adolf Hitler but none about the shootings of civilians in Kraljevo and Kragujevac in October 1941 2 Ramet amp Lazic 2011 p 38 Đureinovic Jelena 2019 The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia Collaboration Resistance and Retribution Routledge p 26 ISBN 978 1 00075 438 4 Nediћ Milan Registar zhrtava za taјne grobnice ubiјenih posle 12 septembra 1944 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Google Translate Translate google com Retrieved 16 September 2016 Perica 2002 p 151 a b Byford 2011b p 110 Himka amp Michlic 2019 p 646 Lazic 2011 p 269 Ramet Sabrina P 2011 Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two Springer p 110 ISBN 978 0 23034 781 6 Omaljev Ana 2016 Discourses on Identity in First and Other Serbia Social Construction of the Self and the Other in a Divided Serbia Columbia University Press p 110 ISBN 978 3 83826 711 1 a b Himka amp Michlic 2019 p 647 Radisic Nikola 26 July 2018 Odbijen zahtev za rehabilitaciju Nedica Nedic s Rehabilitation Request Rejected N1 in Serbian Archived from the original on 18 February 2020 Retrieved 2 May 2020 Dragojlo Sasa 23 May 2016 Serbia s Nazi Backed Leader Did Not Kill Jews Balkan Insight BIRN Subotic 2019 p 89 Calija Jelena Kako je Nediceva vlast prodavala kuce Jevreja Politika Online Retrieved 18 October 2019 Kljakic Slobodan 1 July 2012 Istina o unishteњu srpskih Јevreјa i њeno falsifikovaњe Politika rs Haskin Jeanne M 2006 Bosnia and Beyond The quiet Revolution that Wouldn t Go Quietly Algora Publishing pp 29 30 ISBN 978 0 87586 429 7 Subotic 2019 pp 53 54 Nedeljnik rs 24 March 2020 Heroj junak najvaznija licnost TV nastavnik istorije sokirao javnost lekcijom o Milanu Nedicu takvih reci nema ni u jednom udzbeniku Nedeljnik Retrieved 7 February 2021 Milica Rilak 2020 Sraman cas istorije na RTS Nedic heroj spasavao izbeglice Shameful history lesson on RTS Nedic is a hero he saved refugees Nova S 3 Maribor IZUM Institut informaciјskih znanosti Srpska voјska i solunska ofanziva COBISS plus sr cobiss net in Serbian Retrieved 28 October 2020 Maribor IZUM Institut informaciјskih znanosti Kraљ Aleksandar I Ujedinitelj kao voјskovoђ COBISS plus sr cobiss net in Serbian Retrieved 28 October 2020 Maribor IZUM Institut informaciјskih znanosti Srpska voјska na albanskoј Golgoti COBISS plus sr cobiss net in Serbian Retrieved 28 October 2020 References EditByford Jovan 2011a Willing Bystanders Dimitrije Ljotic Shield Collaboration and the Destruction of Serbia s Jews In Haynes Rebecca Rady Martyn eds In the Shadow of Hitler Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe London I B Tauris ISBN 978 1 84511 697 2 Byford Jovan 2011b The Collaborationist Administration and the Treatment of the Jews in Nazi Occupied Serbia In Ramet S P Listhaug O eds Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two Palgrave Macmillan pp 109 127 doi 10 1057 9780230347816 6 ISBN 978 1 349 32611 2 Cohen Philip J 1996 Serbia s Secret War Propaganda and the Deceit of History College Station Texas Texas A amp M University Press ISBN 978 0 89096 760 7 Cox John K 2002 The History of Serbia Greenwood Publishing Group ISBN 978 0 313 31290 8 Biografija Milan Nedic Glas javnosti in Serbian 27 January 2006 Hoare Marko Attila 2006 Genocide and Resistance in Hitler s Bosnia The Partisans and the Chetniks 1941 1943 New York New York Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 726380 8 Himka John Paul Michlic Joanna Beata 2019 Bringing the Dark Past to Light The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe University of Nebraska Press ISBN 978 1 49621 020 3 Jarman Robert L ed 1997c Yugoslavia Political Diaries 1918 1965 Vol 3 Slough Berkshire Archives Edition ISBN 978 1 85207 950 5 Lazic Sladjana 2011 The Re evaluation of Milan Nedic and Draza Mihailovic in Serbia In Ramet Sabrina P Listhaug Ola eds Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two London England Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978 0230278301 Niehorster Leo 2013a Royal Yugoslav Armed Forces Ranks Leo Niehorster Retrieved 18 June 2014 Ramet Sabrina P 2006 The Three Yugoslavias State Building and Legitimation 1918 2005 Bloomington Indiana Indiana University Press ISBN 978 0 253 34656 8 Ramet Sabrina P Lazic Sladjana 2011 The Collaborationist Regime of Milan Nedic In Ramet Sabrina P Listhaug Ola eds Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two London Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978 0230278301 Subotic Jelena 2019 Yellow Star Red Star Holocaust Remembrance after Communism Cornell University Press ISBN 978 1 50174 241 5 Tomasevich Jozo 1975 War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941 1945 The Chetniks Stanford California Stanford University Press ISBN 978 0 8047 0857 9 Tomasevich Jozo 2001 War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941 1945 Occupation and Collaboration Stanford California Stanford University Press ISBN 978 0 8047 3615 2 Perica Vjekoslav 2002 Balkan Idols Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 517429 8 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milan Nedic Newspaper clippings about Milan Nedic in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBWMilitary officesPreceded byMilan Milovanovic Chief of the General Staff of Royal Yugoslav Army1934 1935 Succeeded byLjubomir MaricPolitical officesPreceded byMilutin Nedic Minister of the Army and Navy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia1939 1940 Succeeded byPetar PesicPreceded byNew title President of the Ministerial Council of the Serbian Government of National Salvation1941 1944 Succeeded byPosition abolished Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Milan Nedic amp oldid 1149756475, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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