Anti-Jugoslav Aktion

JEWS IN THE CHETNIKS In addition to members of many other nations, there were a number of Jews in the Chetnik ranks - from the Supreme Command onwards. "Jews who are fighting in Yugoslav army units send greetings to American Jews and return their best wishes for the New Year. We are happy to be fighting under the command of General Mihailovic against the enemies of the Yugoslav people. We expect full help from our brothers in America so that we can achieve a common goal. Democratic freedoms and severe punishment for war criminals…" “Long live democratic America, long live King Peter, long live Draža Mihailović! ” There were about 3,500 other Jews in Bor, and Chetnik intelligence was "in touch with them." The Jews sabotaged the work in Bor in an organized manner, at the same time making a plan with the Chetniks to start an armed uprising against the Germans "at a given moment". Representatives of the Jews from Bor begged the American Jewish Society to "help them financially and with weapons" through the Krajina Corps in order to make the uprising more successful. In the show of the News Agency Democratic Yugoslavia for April 30, 1944, it was announced that all Jews in the Chetnik ranks received the requested permission "to form a special Jewish unit, which will fight together with all other units of the Yugoslav Army." "Jews from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, who are with us, formed a special committee and set themselves the task of introducing themselves to Yugoslav military officials in our country and running Jewish affairs abroad." The committee issued the following statement on behalf of the Jews serving in the Yugoslav Army: 1. Jews from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, who are now in Yugoslavia, are fighting for democracy, side by side with Yugoslav Army soldiers under General Mihailovic, and against the common enemy of the United Nations, Germany and its allies. 4. All Jews once again express their gratitude to General Draža Mihailović and his subordinate officers, who are always extremely kind to their fellow citizens fleeing Nazi terror, and who, despite all the victims, save Jews from German hands . " We can see Draža's attitude towards Jews from his announcement to all Ravna Gora newspapers and propaganda departments from April 1, 1944, which reads: “One of our papers seems to have a note of anti-Semitism. That is the path of the Nazis, and our movement must not follow that path. In this war, Jews suffered worse than we Serbs, and we have never been against those who suffer, so we will not now. The question of Jews has never been raised in our country, but the question of the regime. If the regimes are solid and have a good administrative apparatus, so will the Jews. But in the first place, we Serbs should be good. That anti-Semitic note must not appear in the press or in propaganda.” Link to the whole google translated article https://standard-rs.translate.goog/2015/08/16/jevreji-u-cetnicima/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=hr&_x_tr_pto=wapp