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The Political Action of Sekula Drljević and his Collaboration with the Ustaši Leadeship and the German Embassy in Zagreb (1943-1945)
Radoje Pajović
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The author shows the political actions of Sekula Drljević, whose goal was the formation of a separate Montenegrin quisling state. Drljević no longer looked for support to facist Italy, as he had done after the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He had them been at the head of those separatist forces which had tried to found a Montenegrin state under Italian protection. Disappointed in Italian policy, Drljević now turned to the Germans and contacted the German embassy in Zagreb in the middle of 1943. He hoped, especially after Italy's capitulation, to gain German support, so he moved to Zagreb in the spring od 1944 and lived there until almost the end of the war. He took a further step by founding the Montenegrin State Council (Crnogorsko državno vijeće), a temporary government whose task was to direct actions for the formation of a Montenegrin state. He gained full support from the ustaši leadership, and finally probably of the Germans themselves, but because of the development of the world war, and the dominant role of the national liberation movement in Yugoslavia, this action became totally unreal.
In the second part of his work, the author shows Drljević's attempts to create a so-called Montenegrin national army, which was to be formed from Montenegrins living outside Montenegro. He was helped in this by the fact that in March 1945 there was a rift between the leaders of the Montenegrin četniks, P. Đurišić and D. Mihailović. Đurišić's četniks became the main base from which Drljević's military formation was created. This formation was short-lived. In May 1945 it was in complete dissolution in the territory of northeast Slovenia, and was completely broken in a fight with the units of the Yugoslav national liberation army.
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219305
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Datum izdavanja:
10.9.1971.
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