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11 unusual facts about Yugoslav partisans


1946–47 Yugoslav First League

Oktobar who entered the 1946–47 Yugoslav First League (the name means "14 October", in reference to 14 October 1944, the day when the city of Niš was liberated by the advancing Partisans).

4 Decembar Nikšić

It was named after the date in 1943 when Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans declared government-in-exile during the occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II.

Association of Croatian Orthodox Believers

The association marks anniversaries of death of Patriarch Germogen of Croatia and other Croatian Orthodox priests killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Đurđevića Tara Bridge

As the mountainous terrain made it suitable for guerrilla warfare, a partisan uprising occurred in the area.

Ig Castle

During World War II, it served as an outpost for Italian carabinieri and Slovene collaborators; in 1944, it was attacked and burned down by Partisans.

Lav Mirski

In 1944, Mirski was liberated after the capitulation of Italy and joined the Partisans.

Mission to Venice

On the flight back to America Hawk tells Carter that he and Manfrinto were best friends during World War II – Hawk as OSS liaison and Manfrinto as leader of a group of Yugoslav Partisans fighting the Germans.

Municipality of Cerkno

After the Italian armistice in September 1943, Cerkno was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans and the region became one of the most important centres of Partisan resistance in the Slovenian Littoral.

Oskar Herman

In the war years, Herman joined Partisan forces and was captured and confined the refugee camp (1942–44) of Ferramonti-Tarsia, in Calabria, southern Italy.

Otto Miskolczy

After the capitulation of Italy and the liberation of the camp, Miskolczy joined the Partisans.

RK Bjelovar

During Communist Yugoslavia, the club was known as Partizan, named after the Second World War's Yugoslav Partisans.


15th Infantry Division Bergamo

The Bergamo Division took part in Operation Alba which was an anti Partisan operations in Croatia carried out on the 12 August to he 2 September 1942, to destroy partisan groups in the Biokovo area 40 to 50 kilometres east of Split.

18th Infantry Division Messina

The Messina Division took part in Operation Alba which was an anti Partisan operations in Croatia carried out on the 12 August to he 2 September 1942, to destroy partisan groups in the Biokovo area 40 to 50 kilometres east of Split.

Breznica pod Lubnikom

During the Second World War, the Partisans Peter Kavčič (a.k.a. Jegorov; 1908–1944) and Danila Kumar (a.k.a. Andreja; 1921–1944), later named a People's Hero of Yugoslavia, were killed in fighting here.

Crvenka

In 1944, the Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans liberated Crvenka and it was included into autonomous province of Vojvodina within new socialist Yugoslavia.

Donji Petrovci

In 1944, Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis troops from the region and village was included into Autonomous Province of Vojvodina within new socialist Yugoslavia.

Gakovo

In 1944, Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis forces from the region and village was included into new socialist Yugoslavia.

Helmuth Raithel

Initially appointed as an SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) commanding the 28th Waffen Gebirgsjäger Regiment, he oversaw the completion of his regiment's training at the Neuhammer training grounds in the Silesian region of Germany (present-day Poland) then led his regiment to fight the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in February 1944.

Josef Schulz

On 20 July 1941, a Wehrmacht firing squad executed sixteen Yugoslav partisans within the barracks of Smederevska Palanka, southeast of Belgrade.

Josip Marija Carević

Josip Marija Carević (born February 16, 1883 in Metković- died 1945 in Veliko Trgovišće) was a bishop of the Diocese of Dubrovnik killed by Yugoslav Partisans at the end of World War II.

Kula, Serbia

In 1944, the Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis troops from the region and Kula was included into autonomous province of Vojvodina within new socialist Yugoslavia.

Livno

Croatian writer Ivan Goran Kovačić joined the communist movement "Partisans" where he wrote his epic poem Jama (The Pit).

Ljubo Novaković

He was captured by Yugoslav Partisans in January 1942 and taken to the Partisan-liberated town of Foča.

Mosor

In April, 2009 speleologists discovered human remains in pits on the mountain, originally thought to be victims of the Yugoslav Partisans from World War II.

No. 352 Squadron RAF

During the war, 27 pilots became casualties, of whom 10 were killed, including the Squadron Commander and both Flight Commanders, and Franjo Kluz, first partisan pilot and national hero of Yugoslavia.

Novi Breg

On 12 June 1942 member of the Executive Committee of the Liberation Front, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia, and the Partisan Supreme Command met here.

Opovo

In 1944, Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis troops from the region and Opovo was included into Autonomous Province of Vojvodina within new socialist Yugoslavia.

Partisan cemetery in Livno

Partisans' Memorial Cemetery in Livno was built in 1972 to honor the Yugoslav Partisans of Livno who were killed in the National Liberation Front.

Roza Miletić

Her mother left her and his father was killed by the Yugoslav Partisans while serving as a Croatian Home Guard during World War II.

Silent Gunpowder

Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans.

Srbobran

In 1944, the Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis troops from the region, and Srbobran was included into the autonomous province of Vojvodina within new socialist Yugoslavia.

Teharje camp

Teharje camp was a World War II prison camp near Teharje, Slovenia, organised by Nazi Germany and used after the war by the Yugoslav Partisans.

Tovariševo

In 1944, Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis troops from the region and village became part of the new socialist Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

In fact, four members of the International brigades that fought on the Republican side ended up commanding the four armies of the Partisan Liberation Army that fought the Nazis in World War II: Koča Popović, Peko Dapčević, Kosta Nađ and Petar Drapšin.