Pictures from Yugoslavia 1941-1945: take a look!

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Re: Pictures from Yugoslavia 1941-1945: take a look!

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Post by Twiggy » 07 Oct 2012, 06:32

Very interesting, I am a Bosnian-German and have family who have served in WWII, On the Jugoslavian partisans side, and the Waffen SS/Wehrmacht. Here are some photos i have scanned on the computer using Gyazo.

My Grandfather's Brother is on the far right, In Berlin near the Reichstag , April 24th 1945. Not sure what was happening.
http://gyazo.com/87b4237186d4c096750dcdc400b9d719


My Grandfather's Cousin Mehmet, He was a Military Police Officer in Holland.
http://gyazo.com/4faab6ff8e6f07ef5774fc520951d92d


Another one of my Grandfather's Distant Relatives - Ahmo, On the Right.
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Post by peshka » 31 Jan 2013, 23:57

Found this at home - my grandfather with the partisans. Picture taken August 17th 1942 in village Dobro near Livno, Hercegovina. 3rd company, 3rd (Kragujevac) battalion, 1st proleterian brigade. My granpa is the guy in the middle, looking to the right.

The guys went through some serious troubles in the eight months prior to the day when this photo was taken in the hot Hercegovina sun.
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Post by peshka » 01 Feb 2013, 00:18

And because he was a good soldier, good comunist and generally a capable guy, five years after the photo above was taken, after Neretva, Sutjeska, a wounding and all the rest - he was a proud bearer of a Yugoslav diplomatic passport on his way to Soviet Union. Such were the times back then...
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Post by G. Trifkovic » 04 Feb 2013, 01:42

Thanks for sharing this piece of family history with us, Peshka. ;)

Cheers,

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Post by Dili » 03 Jul 2014, 00:14

http://dati.acs.beniculturali.it/SecondaGuerraMondiale/

Go to Fronte Jugoslavo and also Mostar

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Re: Pictures from Yugoslavia 1941-1945: take a look!

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Post by Schmed » 30 May 2015, 16:25

My in-laws lived around that region, Gottschee, during that time. Unfortunately my father in law passed away too soon, as he had some great, and often horrific, stories as to how they were treated, and what they did to survive at the hands of the 3rd Reich, and worse, Tito's minions. They seemed to get the worst of both worlds being German speaking Slavs.

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Post by Schmed » 30 May 2015, 16:31

There is a book called "The Forgotten 500", which discusses the Yugoslav side of things, and the assistance they provided to downed Allied Pilots.

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Re: Pictures from Yugoslavia 1941-1945: take a look!

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Post by Kranjski_Janez_2 » 31 May 2015, 00:00

Schmed,
who are these "German speaking Slavs" you are talking about?

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Post by kkevingo » 14 Jul 2015, 17:34

My father served with the British mission to Yugoslavia led by Maclean. He was badly wounded in Petrovac in 1944 and was treated by partisans until they could get him to Italy.

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Post by G. Trifkovic » 14 Jul 2015, 23:35

Hi kkevingo,

and :welcome: .

Did your father leave any diary or letters with details on his wartime service in Yugoslavia?

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Post by kkevingo » 26 Jul 2015, 04:49

Hi G. Trifkovic, sadly no diarys or letters only word of mouth, my father was Macleans wireless operator

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Post by fakatona » 02 Jan 2016, 02:22

Serb prisoners at Novi Sad - 1941.
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Post by skukavica » 12 Feb 2017, 21:53

Four generations
my grand,grand,grandfather at Austro-Hungaric army
my grand,grandfather at Yugoslav royal army
my grandfather at Usthasha forces
my father at Yugoslav army
all lived at same adress...
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Post by bandenkampf » 01 Jun 2017, 21:25

skukavica, great pictures! Did your Grandfather join the Partisan Movement at the end of war, or?

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Post by MarkoZ » 30 Jul 2017, 00:16

How did one generation go from Serb army in World War One, into Ustacha world war 2. ?

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