"Neubacher thought that it would be good to strengthen Nedic's position
not only domestically, but also territorially. Little came of the latter effort,
however. Its basis was to have been a Greater Serbian Federation, headed by
Nedic as the first president and consisting of Serbia, Sandzak, and Montenegro
(and possibly eastern Bosnia, though this was not openly discussed).116 Each of
the areas would have retained its autonomy in administrative and cultural mat-
ters, but they would have acted together as an economic and monetary unit. A
battalion of the Serbian Volunteer Corps was sent to Sandzak along with for-
mer minister Olcan, and in Montenegro the Montenegrin Volunteer Corps was
established in the spring of 1944 under Lieutenant Colonel Pavle Djurisic, for-
merly one of Mihailovic's leading Chetnik commanders, who owed some alle-
giance as well to Nedic and the Germans.117 Nedic did acquire some standing in
Sandzak and Montenegro, but it had nothing to do with the federation, which
was never formed, and it had absolutely no effect on his position in Serbia."
"At a much later date, in November 1944—when the Germans and all Serbian collabo-
rationist groups had withdrawn from Serbia—Neubacher reported on a conference with Pa-
velic in which the latter seemed willing to consider a territorial adjustment in eastern Bosnia
in favor of Serbia. Neubacher was not the only
German who entertained the idea of territorial adjustments between Croatia and Serbia in fa-
vor of Serbia. See, for example, the draft of a letter from the Wehrmacht Operations Staff to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of August 21, 1943, in which the transfer of part of eastern
Bosnia and Srijem to Serbia was proposed for discussion."
This is the long-awaited second part of the author s meticulously researched and scrupulously impartial study of the complicated and anguished history of Yugoslavia during the years of World War II. The previous volume dealt with the Chetniks, the resistance movement formed by officers of the...
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