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I have better things to do than re-fight WWII with you. My father already did it the first time so that I wouldn't have to (and he was in the US Army).

However, I have read enough to know that Mihailovich, the Chetniks and the Serbs in general were thrown to the wolves (communists) in the name of expediency at Yalta. Read Michael Lees book, "The Rape of Serbia". Michael Lees, a British Officer, was there in Yugoslavia at the time, as was Major Kenneth Greenlees and others, all of whom testify the Mihailovich did NOT collaborate with the Germans.

There is even an American Legion Post here in the US, founded shortly after WWII, that is named after Mihailovich -- the ONLY American Legion Post in the US named after a foreign national! Do you think that WWII vets in their prime would have allowed an American Legion Post to be named after "a Nazi Collaborator?" Nope! Absolutely not!

Seems to me that what your grandfather in the Nazi-backed Ustashi couldn't do to Mihalovich in real life, you are trying to do to Mihailovich's memory. Ironically, you wouldn't have dared tried this crap while the WWII vets were still alive to contradict you.

German Warrant on Draza Mihailovic;, offered a reward of 100,000 gold marks for the capture of Mihailovic, dead or alive, 1943.

Text on the poster says:

100,000 Reich marks in gold award

THE PERSON TO BRING DEAD OR ALIVE BANDIT LEADER DRAJA MIHAILOVICH WILL RECEIVE 100,000 REICH MARKS IN GOLD

This criminal brought the country to its greatest misery. Blunted by his lustful life, he has imagined to be the one to “free” the people. As an English mercenary, this ridiculous bragger has managed to do nothing else but to open the doors to bolshevism and thus help in destruction of all national goods sacred to the people since the ancient times. By doing so, he has disturbed the peace of citizens and peasants, ruined the property, goods and the lives of thousands, and threw the country into indescribable misery and trouble.

THEREFORE, THE BOUNTY OF 100,000 REICH MARKS IN GOLD HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE HEAD OF THIS DANGEROUS BANDIT

The person to prove to have made this criminal harmless, or to surrender him to the nearest German post will not only be awarded by the prize of 100,000 Reich marks, but also by the fulfillment of a national deed, because it will liberate the people and the fatherland from the whip of an inhuman terror.

High commander of German troops in Serbia

It's no surprise that you're gonna chicken out and not even attempt to answer the questions posed to you, but instead rather divert.

The Fact is that the majority of Serbian Chetniks collaborated with the Germans and Italians and that the majority never fought against them.

The fact also is that Mihailovic himself began collaborating with the Germans by late 1943, approving joint operations with the Germans and accepting their arms.

Ironically, you wouldn't have dared tried this crap while the WWII vets were still alive to contradict you.

The facts and the truth are on my side. I'll gladly discuss this issue with anyone, using firsthand sources.

...and one last point: your poster is from 1943. Mihailovic’s units in Serbia didn’t begin active collaboration until later that year. He was still a wanted man even though his units in Serbia stopped active resistance against the Germans by the end of 1941 and instead joined the local security forces of the Nedic regime en masse. However, the Chetniks of Montenegro, Bosnia, Hercegovina, and Croatia had already had two years plus of active collaboration with the Axis under their belt, and approved by Mihailovic.