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The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2
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Dušan Simović

Душан Симовић
Yugoslavia state institutions Yugoslavia Serbia 1882–1962 ○ Natural causes

The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat

In November 1918, reporting from Zagreb, Simović wrote that the overwhelming majority were 'taken with the idea of Yugoslav solidarity', and he blocked Italy's attempt to occupy Ljubljana by having the Serb Army enter the city first.

Dušan Simović was a Royal Yugoslav air force general who led the 27 March 1941 coup and became prime minister amid crowds cheering the overthrow of the pact with Germany. Yet in power he refused to formally repudiate the Tripartite Pact, hoping to avert a German invasion, and after the German attack he headed the London government-in-exile until 1942.

Career timeline
  • 1900Graduated from the Belgrade Military Academy, commissioned second lieutenant of artillery
  • 1912–1918Served in the Balkan Wars and First World War; commanded the 7th Infantry Regiment on the Salonika Front
  • 1918Serbian government and Supreme Command delegate to the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in Zagreb
  • 1936–1938Commander of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force
  • 1938–1940Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army; resigned after advocating resistance to a German attack
  • 1941.03–1942.01Prime Minister and Chief of the General Staff after the 27 March coup
  • 1941–1942Head of the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London
  • 1945–1946Returned to Belgrade and testified at Mihailović's trial

Döme Sztójay

Sztójay Döme
Hungary state institutions Counter-revolutionary forces Hungary Serb 1883–1946 ✕ Executed

Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations

Born Dimitrije Stojaković into a Serb family in Versec (Vršac), he served in the First World War as an intelligence officer of the Austro-Hungarian general staff. After the war he specialised in counter-espionage in Horthy’s counter-revolutionary army, was military attaché in Berlin from 1927 to 1933 and, from 1935 to 1944, Hungary’s minister in Berlin, where he pressed for alliance with Germany. Prime minister and foreign minister after the German occupation of March 1944, he legalised the Arrow Cross, dissolved the trade unions, jailed opponents and sharply accelerated the deportation of Jews. Forced out by Horthy’s pressure in August, he was captured by American troops after the war, handed over to Hungary, sentenced to death by a People’s Tribunal and shot in 1946.

Career timeline
  • 1917–1918Intelligence officer, Austro-Hungarian general staff
  • 1919–1925Intelligence and counter-espionage officer, National Army
  • 1927–1933Military attaché in Berlin
  • 1935–1944Minister in Berlin
  • 1944Prime minister and foreign minister
  • 1946Sentenced by a People’s Tribunal and executed