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    The Chetniks (Serbo-Croatian: Четници, Četnici, pronounced [tʃɛ̂tniːtsi]; Slovene: Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and...
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  • Chetnik Organization in both Balkan Wars, 1912–13 Chetniks in World War I, auxiliary units of the Royal Serbian Army active during 1914—18 Chetniks in...
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    the Chetniks against the Ustaše, as a way to protect themselves. He agreed with the Chetnik leadership to form a Muslim Chetnik militia. The Chetniks in...
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    Uroš Drenović (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    the actions of his Chetniks are celebrated and equated with those of the Partisans. The celebration and rehabilitation of Chetniks such as Drenović has...
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  • to fight against Chetniks. Two Anti-Chetnik battalions were established in Bosnia in 1942 and one in Slavonia in 1943. Two anti-Chetnik battalions in Bosnia...
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    Draža Mihailović (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationalist movement and guerrilla...
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    Both the Yugoslav Partisans and the Chetnik movement initially resisted the Axis invasion. However, after 1941, Chetniks extensively and systematically collaborated...
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    Serbian Chetniks had strict orders of defence and protection, and not any offensive; Ottoman government and the Great Powers agreed that the Chetniks did...
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    During World War II, Pećanac Chetniks, also known as the Black Chetniks, were a collaborationist Chetnik irregular military force which operated in the...
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    the Toplica Uprising and a head of the Jablanica Detachment [sr] of the Chetniks. At the end of August 1917, in a conflict with the Bulgarian army on the...
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  • government and the Chetniks began in the fall of 1941, during a major German operation in western Serbia against the partisans. The Chetniks wanted to minimize...
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    the Chetniks and wanted to harness Mihailović to keep the Chetniks in a conservative direction. The government-in-exile in London saw the Chetniks as a...
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    degenerated into full-scale conflict. To the Chetniks, Tito's pan-ethnic policies seemed anti-Serbian, whereas the Chetniks' royalism was anathema to the communists...
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    the Chetniks near Ifsar, captured Čajniče and besieged Foča, where an Italian battalion and about 1,000 Chetniks were surrounded. Chasing the Chetniks deeper...
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    Momčilo Đujić (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    the Chetnik Dinara Division in early 1942. By mid-1942, Đujić was encouraging his Chetniks to co-operate with NDH forces, and on 1 October Chetniks under...
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    these very same forces. The answer rests in the Chetniks' perception of who was really the enemy. The Chetniks considered the Partisan communist movement a...
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  • Jevđević (1895–1962), vojvoda of Herzegovina Chetniks. Self-appointed. Stojan Krstić, commander of the Vardar Chetnik Corps. Named in 1943. Aleksandar Janković...
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  • who headed Chetnik units from the 1930s, embraced chauvinism and led his group of Chetniks into allegiance with Nedić's government. Chetniks under Draža...
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    Adam Chętnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈxɛntɲik]; born 20 December 1885 in Nowogród; died 29 May 1967 in Warsaw) was a Polish ethnographer who studied...
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    Staff of the Army, he created a policy towards the Chetniks with four points: To support the Chetniks sufficiently to make them fight against the communists...
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  • "Chetniks' Story Is Dramatically Told in Movie 'CHETNIKS'", Mae Tinee wrote: "This is a fiercely satisfying picture. We all know about the Chetniks, fighting...
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    and Chetniks continued through the war. Chetniks with Italian backing controlled most of the country from mid-1942 to April 1943. Montenegrin Chetniks received...
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    developed between the Chetniks and Partisans in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. The leader of the Chetniks in that territory was Mihailović...
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    guerrillas (known as "Chetniks") that had fought in Ottoman Macedonia (1903–12), Balkan Wars (1912–13) and World War I (1914–18). Leading Chetniks were split between...
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    and the royalist Chetniks, with the former receiving Allied recognition at the Tehran conference (1943). The heavily pro-Serbian Chetniks were led by Draža...
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    Dragutin Keserović (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    Mihailović's Chetniks in Serbia. Immediately after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, then-Major Keserović joined the Pećanac Chetniks under the...
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    Miroslav Trifunović (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    heavy losses for the Chetnik forces; 450 Chetniks were killed and 50 captured. Due to the large number of deserters among the Chetniks, many of whom joined...
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    Concurrently, Muslims and Croats were persecuted and killed by Serb nationalist Chetniks, with an estimated 50,000–68,000 victims (of which 41,000 were civilians)...
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    necessary ammunition and provisions were supplied to the Chetniks by the Ustaše military. Chetniks who were wounded in such operations would be cared for...
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    Rade Radić (category Chetnik personnel of World War II)
    Lipje, Radić met representative of Chetnik Headquarters of Draža Mihailović, where it was agreed that Bosnian Chetniks recognize Mihailović as their supreme...
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