Yugoslav general (1893-1946)
A Yugoslav general who led royalist Chetnik guerrillas against the Nazis, then turned against Tito's Partisans and drifted into collaboration with the very forces he'd risen to fight — executed by firing squad in 1946, his trial overturned 69 years later.
Born in Ivanjica in 1893 and raised in Belgrade, Mihailović fought through the Balkan Wars and the First World War with distinction. After Yugoslavia fell to Germany in April 1941, he organized the Chetniks at Ravna Gora and fought alongside Tito's Partisans against the occupiers. Opposing strategies, ideology, and distrust split them by late 1941 into open conflict. Many Chetnik groups then collaborated or reached accommodation with Axis forces; British frustration with Mihailović's inaction led the Allies to shift support to Tito in 1944. At war's end Mihailović collaborated with fascist col…
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