Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović also known Čiča was a Serbian colonel who became the leader of the WW2 Yugoslav resistance movement called the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland.
He is primarily remembered as a fascist collaborator. As a rabid nationalist who tried to create a greater Serbia from the Ashes of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This assertion became the truth after the communist Partisans took over Yugoslavia after WW2, but like many of these truths we must take a new look at our history.
Exoneration by Independent U.S. Commission:
Evidence of Mihailovićs loyal Allied and anti-Axis actions, all the way to the end of the occupation, comes from the 500 to 600 Allied (mostly UK and US) military personnel who were rescued by Mihailović forces over almost the entire area where Mihailović forces existed. These British and American personnel often remained with Mihailović and his various forces for months at a time, before they were able to be flown back to the West. As an independent American commission concluded in 1946, these Allied airmen were instructed by their American and British superiors to look for any signs of collaboration, they were given freedom of movement by Mihailović forces, and yet not one of these hundreds testified of Mihailović collaboration with the Axis. Several of these western military personnel gave very detailed testimony of witnessing, and in some cases participating in, anti-Axis actions, even after the Chetniks were abandoned by the Western Allies. The independent American commission that took testimony from some of these airmen concluded:
"ALLEGED COLLABORATION WITH THE ENEMY No evidence was adduced before the commission which tended to show any collaboration between General Mihailović and the Axis powers. On the contrary, all the evidence tended strongly to disprove the existence of any such collaboration. all classes of witnesses were constantly on the lookout for collaboration, had full opportunity to discover it, and would be expected to discover it if it had existed. all the witnesses testified that in Mihailović territory they were allowed to go freely, and without escort, wherever they wanted, to talk without restriction to civilians and soldiers alike, and to make observations as they wished.
OPERATIONS AGAINST THE ENEMY The evidence of American officers before the Commission indicated not merely the absence of collaboration between General Mihailović and the Axis powers, but also establish that General Mihailović and his men continued to conduct hostile operations against both the Germans and the Italians, even after the Allies had stopped sending him supplies and had concentrated their support in favor of Marshal Tito, and even after the date of the Italian surrender. American officers testified to numerous specific operations of this kind in which they had themselves participated with General Mihailović or with troops acting under his direction.
HOSTILITIES BETWEEN CHETNIKS AND PARTISANS The statement of the Minister of the Interior of the present Yugoslavia says that General Mihailović will be charged with 'murder, arson, plundering and the handing over to the Germans of members of our National Liberation Army.' No evidence was adduced before the Commission which tended to support these charges "
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Truth about Serbia & Serbian forces from 1941-45by neoHrvat198163,592 views
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