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At Stalingrad: Ante Pavelic and the Hrvatska Legija, 1941-1943.
By Carl Savich Croatian and Bosnian Muslim troops participated in the 1942-1943 landmark battle of Stalingrad. This was one of the most fiercely-fought and brutal battles of World War II. The battle was the turning point of the war. The most fanatical and dedicated troops fought at Stalingrad. This was where they proved their... »
The March on the Drina: Drina (Little Soldier Boy) by Patti Page
By Carl Savich The 1964 American adaptation of Stanislav Binicki’s “The March on the Drina” recorded as “Drina (Little Soldier Boy)” by Patti Page with English lyrics by Vaughn Horton was a bold and original transformation of a musical work written during World War I into a pop song. The release was a bold attempt... »
The March on the Drina: A Standard of International Music
By Carl Savich “The March on the Drina” by Stanislav Binicki is not only a Serbian standard. It is also an international standard, a musical work that is an integral part of world music. The song has had a major impact on Western music and world music. The lyrics to the song were written... »
Jasenovac: The Historical Legacy? The 1995 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of Krajina Serbs
By Carl Savich | The largest act of ethnic cleansing in Europe since the Holocaust and World War II occurred in Krajina in 1995. It was a genuine and real act of genocide committed during the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s. Because it was planned and orchestrated by the U.S., however, it remains censored... »
FlashBack: Jasenovac
by Carl Savich | Jasenovac became the largest and most important concentration camp (sabirni logor) and extermination camp complex in the Nezavisna Hrvatska Drzava (NDH), Independent State of Croatia, during World War II. The Jasenovac concentration camp complex would be crucial in the systematic and planned genocide of the Orthodox Serbs of the Srpska... »
“Jews”: The Solution to the Jewish Question in the Independent State of Croatia
by Carl Savich | The Independent State of Croatia, which included Bosnia-Hercegovina, was unique and extraordinary during the Holocaust in that Croatians and Bosnian Muslims themselves murdered the Jews of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. Croats and Bosnian Muslims committed genocide against not only their Jewish populations, but also against their Serbian Orthodox and Roma populations... »
American Wartime Film: Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)
by Carl Savich | The 1943 American movie Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas is a time capsule that shows how Draza Mihailovich and the Chetnik guerrillas were integral parts of the American and Allied war effort. At the height of World War II in 1943, the movie demonstrated their influence and impact on the “greatest generation”.... »
FlashBACK: Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo – the Albanian Skenderbeg Division
During WWII, Kosovo Albanians formed a volunteer Nazi army called Skenderbeg whose gunmen and officials engaged in large-scale arrests, deportations, rapes, looting and murders of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and other non-Albanians. This historical study originally appeared on Serbianna October 23, 2000. by Carl Savich Introduction The historical and political precedent for the creation of... »
The Rat Lines, the Holocaust in France, 1940-1944, and the Klaus Barbie Case, Part III
By Carl Savich Introduction Croatian Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganovic was the organizer of the Vatican Rat Lines that allowed wanted Ustasha and Nazi war criminals to escape from Europe to South America. He helped not only suspected Croatian Ustasha war criminals escape prosecution for war crimes. He organized Klaus Barbie’s escape to Bolivia... »
Rethinking Draza Mihailovich
by Carl Savich Review: Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed World War II Yugoslavia by Marcia Christoff Kurapovna. Hoboken, New Jersey: John A. Wiley and Sons, 2009. 336 pages with black and white photographs and a UN map. Four out of five stars. **** Introduction Shadows on... »
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