Posted on 11/22/2013 2:24:11 PM PST by Ravnagora
Professor Kirk Ford, Jr. General Mihailovich 100th Birthday Celebration Chicago, IL April 23, 1993 Rebic Collection.
Aleksandra's Note:
Dr. Kirk Ford, Jr. is the Chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He is the author of the book OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance 1943-1945, published by Texas A&M University Press, 1992.
This book is an extensively researched, in-depth, objective, and truthful analysis of OSS activity attached to both the Mihailovich Chetnik forces [Nationalists/Royalists] and the Partisan forces [Yugoslav communists] under Marshal Tito. I highly recommend it for any honest pursuit of research interests in the area of World War Two Yugoslavia and the role played by America in relation to the Yugoslav resistance movement against the Axis forces.
Dr. Kirk Ford , Jr. was one of the special guest speakers at the General Draza Mihailovich 100th Birthday Celebration at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, IL on April 23, 1993. The following are excerpts from the excellent and illuminating speech given by Professor Ford regarding the issues of Tito's Yugoslav Partisan's and Mihailovich's Chetnik's relations with the Allies, with the Nazis, and Mihailovich and his alleged "collaboration with the Germans".
Sincerely,
Aleksandra Rebic
*****
Dr. Kirk Ford, Jr.:
On the issue of "Collaboration with the Germans"
“...Wasn’t it in the Spring of 1943 (March to be exact) that [Tito] Partisan representatives met with the Germans and confirmed that the Chetniks were their main enemy—that they would be willing to forego operations against the Germans in order to fight the Nationalists, and would, if necessary, even oppose Allied landings in Yugoslavia? It was also in March, 1943, that Gen. Rudolf Luters, a German field commander in Yugoslavia, stated:
‘The Chetniks were never our friends…their aim is and remains our destruction.’
(Excerpt) Read more at generalmihailovich.com ...
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