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1941: A Pivotal Year: The 70th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
By Carl Savich 1941 was a pivotal year in World War II. It was a year of infamy. Both superpowers were drawn into the war that year. It was the year when the war spread to the Balkans. Both Yugoslavia and Greece were invaded and occupied by the Axis. In Serbia, the first organized... »
Nazi Collaborators: Fake Images
By Carl Savich In The Military Channel series Nazi Collaborators, in the episode “Hitler’s Executioners”, shown on November 8, 2011 at 10PM, blatantly fake images are used. The episode is on Latvian collaborator Viktors Arajs who led the Arajs Kommando group which was implicated in the mass murder of Latvian Jews during the German... »
Bosnian Muslim Nazi Collaborators: God vs. Evil
By Carl Savich Bosnian Muslim leaders were major Nazi collaborators during World War II and the Holocaust. They were complicit in and participated in the Ustasha genocide committed against Serbs, Jews, and Roma. They demanded to be allies of Nazi Germany and formed two Nazi SS Divisions during the war. The Grand Mufti of... »
The Vatican Role in the Ustasha Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia
Roman Catholic Croatian guards at the Jasenovac concentration camp prepare to execute an inmate. Source: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. By Carl Savich What role, if any, did the Vatican play in the genocide committed in the Independent State of Croatia, a Roman Catholic state sponsored by the Vatican? This has been a controversial topic... »
The Kragujevac Massacre: 70th Anniversary
By Carl Savich Introduction In the summer of 1941, Serbian guerrillas launched an uprising in central Serbia against the German occupation. The Serbian uprising spread and increased in intensity, threatening the German military occupation of Serbia and endangering the German southern flank in Europe. The Serbian uprising came at the time of the German... »
Faking History: Tito’s Phony War
By Carl Savich Review: “Tito’s War” by John Brown, World War II History, November, 2011, Volume 10, No. 7, pp. 54-61. In the November, 2011 issue of the military history magazine World War II History, published in Herndon, Virginia, an article entitled “Tito’s War” by Australian author John Brown purports to chronicle the conflict... »
The Rat Lines, the Holocaust in France, 1940-1944, and the Klaus Barbie Case, Part I
By Carl Savich Introduction By means of the infamous Rat Lines, Krunoslav Draganovic helped not only suspected Croatian Ustasha war criminals escape prosecution for war crimes. He also helped wanted Nazi Klaus Barbie to escape to Bolivia. Klaus Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon”, or “boucher de Lyon”. As a Gestapo leader... »
FlashBack: How Bosnian Muslims Reformed Nazi SS Division
By Carl Savich | The Bosnian Muslim Government and Army of Alija Izetbegovic reformed and revived the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division from World War II. This startling fact was first revealed by British journalist and military analyst Robert Fox in the Daily Telegraph news report from December 29, 1993. The report was entitled... »
The Ragged Guard: World War II Novels on Draza Mihailovich and the Chetniks
By Carl Savich | In August, 1942, The Ragged Guard: A Tale of 1941, a novel on Draza Mihailovich by Hungarian-born British author and journalist Paul Tabori, was published in London. The novel was a fictionalized account of the guerrilla resistance movement led by Draza Mihailovich in German-occupied Yugoslavia during the crucial year of... »
War and Youth: A World War II Novel on the Balkans
By Carl Savich | In 1944, Hungarian-born novelist Istvan Tamas published his second novel on the former Yugoslavia during World War II, The Students of Spalato. He had written Sergeant Nikola: A Novel of the Chetnik Brigades, described as “A Novel of the Balkan guerilla war”, in 1942 on the resistance movement of Draza... »
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