HIST 226 Lecture 15: 10_18
10 Nov 2017
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Germans gained power in europe until battle of stalingrad, then begins losing territory. Very little reason to collaborate, not seen as assimilable. Polish home army, 200,000 active fighters by 1944. Come from all classes, but officer class is disproportionately conservative. Employed sabotage, assassination, destruction of german infrastructure as well. Feb 1943, himmler orders full eviction of ghetto. Germans end up having to clear ghetto street by street, takes a month. Only wartime resistance movement that liberated its country without outside help. Chetniks, loyal to king, led by dragolub mihailovic. Wanted to recreate a serb-dominated yugoslavia, fighters. Communists, led by josip broz tito primarily serbs/montenegrins. Individual bands under local leaders, which meant that control was not absolute. Strategy of organizing forces in preparation for allied invasion. After 1942, de facto supported by italians as anti-croatian force. After italian collapse, chetnik leaders switch to collaborating with germans. The british don"t like this, eventually end support for chetniks and begin supporting communists.
