Resistance in AH-Occupied Serbia

BooNZ

Banned
With a lot of brutality and without really have a clue about resolving the situation in the long term; annexing the place (yes there were serious plan for that) it's the worst case scenario as will increase the resistance of the people and even in case of succesfull suppression, Serbia will just complicate the already chaotic situation of A-H

To put things in perspective, the Serbian medical/health infrastructure collapsed in the first six months of the war and as a consequence the population of Serbia probably suffered the worst of any belligerent, yet we are expected to believe they would continue to resist occupation indefinitely after its discredited leadership had lead them through such suffering and a humiliating defeat?

Even so, the A-H effort to suppress could be limited to disarming the Serbian population, redistributing those arms among Croat, Bosniak, Macedonian/Bulgar militia groups and looking in the other direction. Horrific!
 

BlondieBC

Banned
Let's say World War 1 ends in a stalemate in 1916 or 1917 - the CP retains much of their gains from the Eastern Front which includes AH's occupation of Serbia. What would Serbian resistance to the occupiers look like? How effective would it be?

Very little. 1/4 of Serbia population died IOTL. Resistance will be suppressed with enough force to make it minimal.
 

BlondieBC

Banned
How extensive could resistance become, even if its minimal?

Enough to get A-H to expel/destroy most Serbian villages. So I guess for a modern example, it could look like Syria less the press coverage. Also, a large % of the Serbian population that live had evacuated the country. They will never return. My guess is that in 1920, Serbia population will be less than half of 1913 population. The largest ethnic group will not be Serbs (Croats, Bulgarians, Macedoneans). Serbia ceases to exist. Field of Blackbirds, part II, the final sequel.
 

BlondieBC

Banned
I've seen this before - can you give me a source?

From Memory. The NY Times made books of its foreign articles. It is called "Current History" and its free on google books, at least it was 5 years ago. Not searchable, since pictures of pages not PDF, but if you want a good primary source for the era that is free, it is the best.
 
Enough to get A-H to expel/destroy most Serbian villages. So I guess for a modern example, it could look like Syria less the press coverage. Also, a large % of the Serbian population that live had evacuated the country. They will never return. My guess is that in 1920, Serbia population will be less than half of 1913 population. The largest ethnic group will not be Serbs (Croats, Bulgarians, Macedoneans). Serbia ceases to exist. Field of Blackbirds, part II, the final sequel.
What would be the international reaction to this? Would any other country attempt to help Serbia?
 

Anchises

Banned
To put things in perspective, the Serbian medical/health infrastructure collapsed in the first six months of the war and as a consequence the population of Serbia probably suffered the worst of any belligerent, yet we are expected to believe they would continue to resist occupation indefinitely after its discredited leadership had lead them through such suffering and a humiliating defeat?

Even so, the A-H effort to suppress could be limited to disarming the Serbian population, redistributing those arms among Croat, Bosniak, Macedonian/Bulgar militia groups and looking in the other direction. Horrific!

Agreed. A-H has no interest in actually ruling/annexing Serbia.

A-H just wants to punish Serbia and it wants to end the panslavist thread.

After such a devastating war that shouldn't be too hard. Like you say, arming the right minorities really should suffice...
 
What would be the international reaction to this? Would any other country attempt to help Serbia?

Who's in a position too? The world just got out of a fighting a major multi-year industrial war in which they've exhausted their patriotic fervor, war chests, and current crop of young men. Even if, say, the French care enough about the fate of the Serbs, are they really going to pick a fight over it?
 
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