Jezdimir Dangić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jezdimir Dangić

Bosnian Serb Chetnik commander

Date of Birth: 05-May-1897

Place of Birth: Bratunac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1947

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jezdimir Dangić

  • Jezdimir Dangic (Serbian Cyrillic: ???????? ??????; 4 May 1897 – 22 August 1947) was a Bosnian Serb Chetnik commander during World War II.
  • Born in the town of Bratunac, he was imprisoned during World War I for his membership of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia.
  • He subsequently completed a law degree and became an officer in the gendarmerie of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the beginning of 1928.
  • In 1940 he was appointed to lead the Court gendarmerie detachment stationed at the Belgrade royal palace.
  • With the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Dangic commanded the gendarmerie unit that escorted King Peter II out of the country.
  • In August of that year, Colonel Draža Mihailovic appointed him commander of the Chetnik forces in eastern Bosnia.
  • Here, Dangic and his men launched several attacks against the forces of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
  • In August, Dangic's Chetniks captured the town of Srebrenica.
  • Afterwards, they became largely inactive in fighting the Germans, choosing instead to avoid confrontation.
  • In December, Chetniks under Dangic's command massacred hundreds of Bosnian Muslims in the town of Goražde.
  • In December, his Chetniks captured five nuns and took them with them through Romanija to Goražde, where they later committed suicide to avoid being raped. In January 1942, Dangic ordered his forces to not resist German and NDH troops during the anti-Partisan offensive known as Operation Southeast Croatia.
  • Afterwards, he was invited to Belgrade to negotiate the terms of proposed Chetnik collaboration with the Germans with Milan Nedic and General der Artillerie (lieutenant general) Paul Bader.
  • Although a deal was struck, it was vetoed by the Wehrmacht Commander in Southeast Europe, General der Pioniere (lieutenant general) Walter Kuntze, who remained suspicious of Dangic.
  • Despite this, Dangic's Chetniks collaborated with German forces in eastern Bosnia over a period of several months beginning in December 1941.
  • In April 1942, Dangic was arrested when he travelled to Serbia despite promising to operate only within the territory of Bosnia, and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • In 1943, he escaped from the camp and the following year participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
  • In 1945, he was captured by the Red Army and was extradited to Yugoslavia, where he stood accused of committing war crimes.
  • In 1947, he was tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed by Yugoslavia's new Communist authorities.

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