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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1528840, member: 32000&quot;]<b>Serbia WWII &amp; Yugoslavia Post WWII</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In April 1941, Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was then partitioned. Some Yugoslav territory was annexed by its Axis neighbors, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy. The Germans engineered and supported the creation of the new puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which roughly comprised most of the pre-war Banovina Croatia, along with rest of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and some adjacent territory. The Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians occupied other parts of Yugoslavian territory. Germany occupied northern parts of present-day Slovenia and northern parts of the Independent State of Croatia. The German-occupied part of present-day Slovenia was annexed by Germany and was divided into two administrative areas that were placed under the administration of Gauleitersin Austria. The remaining territory, which consisted of Serbia proper, the northern part of Kosovo (around Kosovska Mitrovica), and the Banat was placed under a German government of military occupation and military administration.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]201230.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Serbia - 2 Dinara - 1942 - KM #32</p><p>[ATTACH]201054.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]201055.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed in 1943 by the Partisans<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" rel="nofollow"></a> resistance movement during World War II<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" rel="nofollow"></a>. It was renamed to the Federal People&#039;s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a communist government was established. In 1963, it was renamed again to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" rel="nofollow"></a> (SFRY). This was the largest Yugoslav state, as Istria, Rijeka and Zadar were added to the new Yugoslavia after the end of World War II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yugoslavia - 50 Para - 1945 - KM #25</p><p>[ATTACH]201056.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]201057.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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