Yugoslavia, Serbia. Two Second War Chetniks Group Photographs And A Newsweek Magazine

Includes:

1. two Group Photographs (in black and white, gloss finish, measuring 237 mm (w) x 178 mm (h) each, both exhibit curling, one is without flaws, the other is lightly soiled and exhibiting two tears, along with crazing in the finish);

2. Newsweek Magazine (dated November 8, 1943, the cover illustrating four Chetnik soldiers in repose and entitled "Chetniks of Yugoslavia", five additional Chetnik photos and article on pages 22-23, with other wartime themed articles and advertisements throughout, address label and stamp on the front cover indicating that it once belonged to the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia, 112 pages plus cover, 104 pages on a newsprint stock, with 8 pages on a white paper stock, many of the illustrations in either colour or black with spot colour, measuring 210 mm (w) x 277 mm (h), dual-staple bound). Fine to very fine.

Footnote: At 5:12 a.m. on April 6, 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces invaded Yugoslavia. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) bombed Belgrade and other major Yugoslav cities. On April 17th, representatives of Yugoslavia's various regions signed an armistice with Germany in Belgrade, ending eleven days of resistance against the invading German forces. More than 300,000 Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken prisoner. The Axis Powers occupied Yugoslavia and split it up. The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi satellite state, ruled by the fascist militia known as the Ustaše that came into existence in 1929, but was relatively limited in its activities until 1941. German troops occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as part of Serbia and Slovenia, while other parts of the country were occupied by Bulgaria, Hungary, and Italy. From 1941 to 1945, the Croatian Ustaše regime murdered around 500,000 people, 250,000 were expelled, and another 200,000 were forced to convert to Catholicism. From the start, the Yugoslav resistance forces consisted of two factions: the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist Chetniks, with the former receiving Allied recognition only at the Tehran conference (1943). The heavily pro-Serbian Chetniks were led by Draža Mihajlović, while the pan-Yugoslav oriented Partisans were led by Josip Broz Tito.