Moving Towards New Meanings. 9 May in the Balkans

... (SFRY). The German, Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian occupation forces were active in the region. The parties to the conflict included the royal government that turned into a government-in-exile, and the civil administrations of occupied Serbia and Slovenia, whose leaders chose collaboration as the only way to alleviate the situation for the people. The Ustaše-ruled Independent State of Croatia is well known [2] . There was also Draža Mihailović’s Serbian nationalist Chetnik movement ...