Dobroslav Jevđević

Dobroslav Jevđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Доброслав Јевђевић, pronounced [dǒbroslaʋ jêʋdʑevitɕ], December 28, 1895 - October 1962) was a Bosnian-Serbian politician and self-proclaimed Chetnik commander (Serbo-Croatian: Vojvoda, Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the Second World War. He was a member of the Chetnik Interbellum Association and the Organization of the Yugoslav Nationalists, a Yugoslav National Party member of the National Assembly, and a leader of the opposition to King Alexander between 1929 and 1934. The following year he becam the propaganda chief for Yugoslav government.Following the Ash invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he became a Chetnik leader in Herzegovina and a member of the Chetnik movement of Draža Mihailović. Jevđević together with the Italians and later the Germans in actions against the Yugoslav partisans. Although Jevđević was recognized as the authority of Mihailović, who is aware of and approved of his cooperation with Axis powers, a number of factors can effectively deliver him independently of Mihailović's command, except when he worked closely with Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin, Mihailović designated commander in Dalmatia, Herzegovina, western Bosnia and southwestern Croatia.During the joint Italian Chetnik Operation Alfa, Jevđević's Chetniks, along with other Chetnik forces, were responsible for killing between 543 and 2,500 Bosnian Muslims and Catholic citizens in the Prozor region in October 1942. She also participated in one of the largest Axis anti-Partisan operations of the war, Case White, in the winter of 1943. Chetniks were later merged with other collaborating forces that had withdrawn to the west, and were placed under the command of the SS General Odilo Globocnik of the operational zone of the Adriatic Sea Littoral. Jevđević fled to Italy in the spring of 1945, where he was arrested by allied military authorities and locked up in a camp in Grottaglie. He was eventually released, having received substantial Allied support. Requests from Yugoslavia for extradition were ignored. Jevđević moved to Rome and lived under a false name. In the years after the war, he collected reports for various Western intelligence services and printed anti-communist publications.He lived in Rome until his death in October 1962.