State authorities in Croatia and Slovenia have recently indiscriminately designated Tito’s Yugoslavia as totalitarian without reservations. Neither of these authorities referred to any systematic ...
In November 1944, a tragic mistake unfolded in the skies above Yugoslavia when American P-38 Lightning pilots accidentally attacked a Soviet convoy, sparking a deadly air battle between allies.
Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...
When Rebecca West died in 1983, the New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn paid tribute to her talents. Despite having worked with J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote and James Baldwin, among countless ...
Deputies of the Opposition cried “Butcher! Torturer! Nero! Judas! Hypocrite!” and many another heated epithet at Minister of Interior Boza Maximovitch, last week, at Belgrade. They shouted that M.
This article recounts a little-known episode in which Yugoslav partisans, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, rescued some 2,500 Jews from the former Italian camp for Jews in the northern ...
It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, secret names and plans for a genocide.
Serbian school textbooks present a biased view of the Balkan conflicts, portraying Serbs as the main victims of war crimes and ignoring victims from other ethnic groups, said the Belgrade-based ...
The Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia is making preparations to publish, in the Servo-Croatian language, Simon Dubnow’s “History of the Jewish People,” it was reported here from Belgrade today ...
This week, the German Army invades Greece and Yugoslavia as it launches Operation Marita and Operation 25 respectively. They ...