If you read one WWI account this week, make it this one. Bitola, 1917, a rich Macedonian town turned into a target. The occupation, the famine, then the shelling. This thread is a reminder of what “war on civilians” looks like. 🧵 Before WWI, Bitola was a trade hub, whitewashed houses in green orchards, tied to Salonica by rail. A place people fought over on maps, long before they fought over it with guns. 🔽

1/4 Third week of the trial of Draža Mihailović and the members of the refugee and Nedić's "governments" 10. June to 15. June 1946 in Belgrade: The testimony of Dragi Jovanović, "head of the Serbian state security" and 🔽 2/4extraordinary commissioner for Belgrade the counties of Vračar and Grocka. Courtesy of the Museum of Yugoslavia, inventory number 500.Side note: Jovanović was the head of Belgrade police before WWII, during WWII under German direction and was sentenced to death at this trial🔽

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The film found in the heritage of Osijek producer and owner of the cinema, Ignjat Rajntaler, which is kept in the Film Archive of Austria, is actually composed of several different materials about 👇vimeo.com/232188432 the Serbian Army filmed during the First and the Second Balkan Wars. One can see in the film the siege of Jedren in 1912, the Serbian Army on siege positions, and Colonel Vladimir Kondic with headquarters of the Timok Division, placement of grenades 👇

On the occasion of the Battle of Cer anniversary, the first victory of the Allied army in World War I, on Vidovdan the 28th June 1928, the King Alexander unveiled the commemorative plaque for fallen the soldiers

Courtesy Jugoslovenska Kinoteka.
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kinoteka.org.rs/di/efg/Http/EF… The monument was raised by the Association of Reserve Officers and people from the nearby areas with assistance of the Czechoslovakian government and bones of the warriors, gathered from the scattered graves throughout Cer Mountain, were built in its foundation.
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Inv. No. 7745

Jews from Senta, Serbia (1941-1944 under special administration by local German population), photographed on their way to perform forced labour. Roughly May 1941.

Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.🔽 Inv. No. 7746

A group of Jews listening to their work orders, Senta, Serbia (1941-1944 under special administration by local German population). Roughly May 1941.

Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.

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Due to one French soldier lack of attention, on the 18th August 1917 there was a great fire in Thessaloniki, which lasted several days, destroyed a large part of the town and brought out many human victims and enormous material damage. 🔽vimeo.com/231803848 Almost a year before this incident, the Film department of the Serbian army was founded and in this fire the newly acquired laboratory for film development from Italy was destroyed. In return, the cinematographer of the department, 🔽

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Domobrans who switched sides and joined the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia at Tovarnik in #Srem, April 1944. E-19/1

Courtesy of the Museum of #Yugoslavia.

Tran. note: Domobrans were the regular army of the Independent State of #Croatia. 🔽 #WW2

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Arrival of Domobrans from Sremska Mitrovica, who were met on the free territory, above Veliki Radinci by Milivoj Savić "Triva" (riding the white horse), head of the provisioning section and Dimitrije Šešerinac "Gedža", 🔽

Austro-Hungarian propaganda poster after the occupation of #Belgrade in 1915:

With a bleeding heart, we hereby announce this incredibly sad news about the unmourned loss of our dearly beloved son

BELGRADE who, after many months of a difficult disease has, due to overgorging on #Austrian canister shot, grenades and bullets, passed into the better, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Kulturbund (Schwäbisch-Deutscher Kulturbund) was a #German society in the Kingdom of #Yugoslavia founded in 1920 in Novi Sad, which was taken over by pro-#Nazi elements in the 1930s. Acted as fifth column during the April War in 1941 and collaborators during the occupation👇 Inv. no. 7587

An enemy formation of the Kulturbund in Odžaci (#Serbia), 1941. Photo from the NOP museum in Novi Sad, sig. neg. A-216/6

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The majority of #Slovenia was annexed by Germany during #WWII (with smaller parts going to Italy and Hungary), where they instituted a policy of forced resettlement/exile of thousands of Slovenians. Entire families were resettled to #German-occupied #Serbia.

#history #WWII Inventory number 13711

A group of interned #Slovenians in Gornji Milanovac, summer of 1941.

#Photo courtesy of the Museum of #Yugoslavia, #Belgrade.

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During the #Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, #military #hospitals for wounded soldiers were opened in all bigger towns in #Serbia. Most hospitals were in #Belgrade where several thousand wounded soldiers were treated. The number of hospitals in Belgrade increased... ...during the Second #Balkan War with the #Bulgarians (June-July 1913), even thirty-six in total; two permanent and thirty-four emergency #hospitals. The last XXXIV emergency hospital was located in a onetime tavern Smutnikovac at the Topcider hill. The owner of the private...

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For reserve sub-lieutenant Mr. Nikola Vlaisavljević, of the 2-VI regiment, who, based on the opinion K. No. 11.536 by the Super-Revisory Commission of the Supreme Command of this day and the order by the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command...

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#WWI #history ...L. No. 50.912 of 7th February of the current year, is sent to thirty days of medical leave to the town of Vodena.

His medical leave is counted from the current day as the day of the commission examination.

He has the right to a free train ride from Salonica to Vodena.

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IV #Cavalry Regiment of “the Great Prince Konstantin Konstantinovic“ returned from the #Balkan #Wars to #Belgrade railway station at four o`clock in the afternoon on the 3rd August 1913, where it was welcomed and greeted by a great number of Belgrade citizens. 2/3
The regiment then went to the camp in Banjica to join the troops which paraded through the capital city, particularly ready for the official reception of the #Serbian victors on the 11th August 1913.

Courtesy of Jugoslovenska Kinoteka (#Yugoslav #Film #Archive).

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Albanians over a victim with its throat slit, village of Velika close to Andrijevica in #Montenegro 28.07.1944.

On 28.07.1944. members of the 7th SS Division "Prinz Eugen" (#Volksdeutchers from #Yugoslavia) and 21st #SS Division "#Skanderbeg" ⏬ (#Albanians) killed, slaughtered and burned around 400 grannies, women and children over two hours, in the villages of Velika and Gornja Ržanica. #WWII #history ⏬

Photo Thread (6):

Aftermath of the #explosion in #Smederevo #Fortress, #Serbia. June 1941

After the capture of #Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the medieval Smederevo Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the 🔽 Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the #USSR. The entire storage facility was guarded by only 6 #German soldiers, as it was considered inconceivable that anyone would sabotage that amount of #explosive materials in a populated place. 🔽

🧵 Courtesy of Nikola Malović, an award-winning #writer from #Boka Kotorska, we have our first double feature!

Mr Malović graciously let us translate his text about a 1969 #letter from a #Papal envoy to vladika Danilo of #Montengro about the removal of the chapel on Mt. Lovćen. Mr Malović's text is a great dissection of the importance of #Kotor in the history of Boka and #Montenegro, as well as an analysis of the indecent offer contained in the letter. 🔽

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Tpday (08.05.) the state delegation of Serbia for the first time laid wreaths at the monument in Neusiedl am See in #Austria. The monument commemorates the Nezsider #WWI concentration camp, through which 14 500 Serbs from #Serbia and #Montenegro passed, with 9700 dying there.👇





The camp specialised in intelligentsia or their families, having been the home of #poet Sima Pandurović, #mathematician Milutin Milanković, #painter Marko Murat, Serbia's first female #architect Jelisaveta Načić, the wife and children of #composer Stanislav Binički, 👇