Yugoslavia in World War Two - a tale of resistance, collaboration, and betrayal

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This video is an attempt to summarise a fiendishly complicated and often nasty story - that of Yugoslavia in World War Two. There are heroes and there are villains, and there are many ambiguous shades in between.

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During the war, most English people wrote 'Jugoslavia', but now most people write 'Yugoslavia' in English. I'm happy with both spellings.

Mihailovic admitted to a British colonel that the Chetniks' principal enemies were "the partisans, the Ustasha, the Muslims, the Croats and last the Germans and Italians" [in that order].

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Bosnian SS troops
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1977-137-20 / Falkowski / CC-BY-SA , CC BY-SA de,

Fitzroy Maclean image
By Source, Fair use,

Map of Yugoslavia
By DIREKTOR (derived from PANONIAN's work) - modified version of this map: Info in the map is verifiable at: Tomasevich, Jozo (1975). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: The Chetniks. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9., , Map 3. Partition of 1941, Public Domain,

King Peter II
By Daventry (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer - This is photograph CM 5648 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain,

Prince Regent Paul
By Royal Palace - ????? ???????? ?? ????? , Public Domain,

Slav migration map
By User Fphilibert from - here, CC BY-SA ,

Late Roman migration map
By User:MapMaster - Own work, CC BY-SA ,

Ustashe leader picture
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use,

Randolph Churchill
By Cecil Beaton - is photograph CBM 1585 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain,

Marching partisans
By Unknown author - Zbornik secanja aktivista jugoslovenskog revolucionarnog radnickog pokreta, knjiga šesta (str. 400), Beograd 1960., Public Domain,

DSO image
By Borodun - Own work, CC BY-SA ,

Admiral Sir Walter Cowan
By Leonard Campbell Taylor - is photograph ART 3143 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain,

Jack Churchill
By Unknown author - , Public Domain,

Monte Casino
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J26131 / Enz / CC-BY-SA / CC BY-SA DE ()

BAF commanders
By Jones W A (Sgt)Royal Air Force official photographer - This is photograph CNA 3470 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain,

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