Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History

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Texas A&M University Press, 1996 - Broj stranica: 235
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An entire piece of Serbian history is missing. And in the middle of the latest Yugoslav war—Europe's worst blood bath since World War II—Serbian politicians, propagandists, and revisionist historians have made a cynical attempt at replacing the missing piece by rewriting the Holocaust record: Serbs were not Nazi collaborators in genocide, but purely victims of the same atrocities that befell the Jews; and Serbian aspirations for a Greater Serbia are not driven by a murderous, nationalistic hatred, but rather are propelled by a victim's desire to lay claim to a safe homeland, a Serbian Promised Land. Thus has the current spilling of blood been justified.

Philip J. Cohen argues that the existence of such a propaganda campaign, emanating from Belgrade, began in the earliest days of the post-World War II era and, since then, has been reflected in the world media, as well as in popular commentary and scholarly analysis. More astonishing is that this campaign has been widely successful, particularly in Israel.

In attempting to not only establish but also explain the Serbian record during the Nazi occupation, Cohen takes his reader back into nineteenth-century Serbia to uncover the foundation of a political and social system that was partly built on ethnic prejudices and the glorification of violence. The rise of Serbian fascism in the 1930s was therefore inevitable—predetermined by the politics of power- and land-grabbing.

Remarkable for its broad portrayal and penetrating examination of the Yugoslav social and political experience, Serbia at War with History draws heavily on documents that have been previously unavailable to the West. Some of the written record has been translated and is published here, in full, for the first time. Destined to be regarded as an important contribution to the field, Cohen's careful study of the Serbian role in the Second World War will dramatically alter how scholars, policy makers, and the general public view the bloodshed in the former Yugoslavia—and how they will come to understand the reasons behind it.
 

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Serbia's secret war: propaganda and the deceit of history

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Cohen, a physician who researched sources never before available to the West, weaves a rich tapestry covering the last 200 years of Balkan history while emphasizing the role the Serbs played in World ... Pročitajte cijelu recenziju

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For all angry and stubborn Serbians who wrote their "reviews" on this book!!!
The author has written just the facts and only facts... He doesn't have any interest for portraying all the Serbs in
negative context, but he just trying to explain what was the policies of the Kingdom SHS Government, in which Serbs were in majority, Serbian's intellectuals, state apparatus and foremost, Orthodox church and theirs clergy, implemented politics which had been intended to all non-Serbs peoples in Kingdom SHS between First an Second World War. Second, the author pulled of all of his conclusions from historical documents he manage to obtain (and there is abundance of such documents, real treasure for historians) ) so there's been no room for any substantial error. After Germany occupied Croatia where they In many countries people have welcomed the Germans as liberators from the tyranny of the former state, and Croatia wasn't exception. When Germans silenced frail military resistance Army of Kingdom SHS and when they eventually occupied Croatia, they put nationalistic Ustasha movement in place of the the Croatian government, but without any election of the citizens. Majority of the Croatian people joint to the partisans, especially from those parts of the country which Ustasha movement granted to fascist Italy. Tito himself was ethnic Croat, and first armed uprise took his place in Croatian town Sisak, in Brezovica wood. Until 1943., partisan movement was stronger and numerous in Croatia and BiH.
Meanwhile, Serbian King in exile and his loyal subjects in Serbia, so called "Chetniks" (Četnici), were fighting against Tito's partisans together with their allies Italians and Germans, carefully retaining their Great Serbian course and intentions, expelling and killing all non-Serb population from Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia. All those criminal deeds had been committed in close collaboration with German and Italian partners who gave all the weapons and provisions to "chetniks" for their ongoing combat against communists and all non-Serbs. During WW2 in Serbia the Axis forces have had a large number of Serbo-fascistic collaborators, like Dimitrije Ljotić and his organization "Zbor", Milan Nedić, general Dragoljub Mihailović-Draža (chetniks CO), Kosta Pećanac, etc. Interestingly, Ljotić was collaborated with Lav Rupnik, leader of the Slovenian quisling organisation called "Bijela Garda", but collaboration was primarily on Great Serbia foundations and agenda.
Ljotić and his government praised themselves that made from Serbian capital Belgrade first "Juden free" city in occupied Europe. That is the facts.
 

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Stranica 191 - He struck me now, as when I had seen him for the first time in the previous year, as the most remarkable human being I have ever met, not because he was wise or good, for I have still no idea to what degree he is either, but because he was the supreme magician. He had command over the means of making magic, in his great personal beauty, which was of the lion's kind, and in the thundering murmur of his voice, which by its double quality, grand and yet guttural, suggests that he could speak to gods...
Stranica 47 - ... provinces of Lika and Slavonia. The Chetnik plan specified that the non-Serbian populations of the coveted lands would be eliminated and that these lands would finally be legally incorporated into Greater Serbia. Regarding the realization of a Greater Serbia, the Chetniks and the Nedic government worked in parallel fashion toward a common goal. The Chetniks contributed to the cause of Greater Serbia by executing a policy of genocide against non-Serbs in the territories they coveted, while Nedic...
Stranica 5 - Even before World War II, however, the Serbs had planned ethnic cleansing against another group in a document entitled "The Expulsion of the Albanians": If Germany can evict hundreds of thousands of Jews, if Russia can transport millions of people from one part of the continent to another, a few hundred thousand evicted Albanians will not provoke a world war.
Stranica 187 - ... of Prince Gortchakoff to the Russian Representatives Abroad respecting Relations between Russia and Rome [v. supra, No. 729]. PAGE 105 169 HC. OTB reprinted 19 Ap. 1877. 936 Correspondence respecting the War between Russia and Turkey. [Russia No.
Stranica 70 - Habsburg empires in 1912 and 1918 did not put an end to these forms of small-scale violence or stop people from taking the law into their own hands. On the contrary, ever since the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes...
Stranica 191 - ... defeat and that love is serviceable. He had a warm knowledge of how magic can prove this up to the hilt. He had a cold knowledge, which he would not share with any living thing, of the limited avail of magic, and how its victories cannot be won on the material battlefield where man longs to see them. He was so apt for magic that had it not existed he could have invented it. He saw all earth as its expression.
Stranica 47 - In the Chetnik vision, Greater Serbia would consist only of Serbs, under a Serbian king, encompassing Serbia, Vojvodina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and portions of Croatia, including the Dalmatian coast as far north as Sibenik and the inland provinces of Lika and Slavonia.
Stranica 48 - Ustashas, and the Ustashas against the Partisans. As late as February, 1943, Mihailovic was so indiscreet as to state to a British colonel that the Chetniks...
Stranica 68 - ... behalf of the Jews; it has passively resisted every pressure put upon it at various times by the majority of the guaranteeing Powers, thinking the support of the mercantile interest of Belgrade, which looks with great jealousy at the Jews, as being of more value. 1...

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O autoru (1996)

Philip J. Cohen, a medical doctor, has done extensive research on history and politics in the Balkans. He is widely published in scholarly journals and books."Dr. Cohen's book is of unique value because it serves two vital purposes: to document the often misunderstood and misrepresented history of Serbian nationalism and Serbian collaboration with the Nazis and to expose some of the myths used by Serbian extremists today in the former Yugoslavia to justify a new round of genocide and ethnic cleansing.' As a result, it will make the task of revisionists and war criminals all the more difficult.

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