TheCommissioner Government (Serbian:Комесарска влада,Komesarska vlada) was a short-lived Serbiancollaborationistpuppet government established in theGerman-occupied territory of Serbia within theAxis-partitionedKingdom of Yugoslavia duringWorld War II. It operated from 30 April to 29 August 1941, was headed byMilan Aćimović, and is also referred to as theCommissars Government orCouncil of Commissars. Of the ten commissioners, four had previously been ministers in various Yugoslav governments, and two had been assistant ministers. The members were pro-German,anti-semitic and anti-communist, and believed that Germany would win the war. The Aćimović government lacked any semblance of power, and was merely an instrument of the German occupation regime, carrying out its orders within the occupied territory. Under the overall control of the German Military Commander in Serbia, supervision of its day-to-day operations was the responsibility of the chief of the German administrative staff, SS-Brigadeführer and State CouncillorHarald Turner. One of its early tasks was the implementation of German orders regarding the registration ofJews andRomani people living in the territory, and the placing of severe restrictions on their liberty.
In early July, a few days after a communist-ledmass uprising commenced, Aćimović reshuffled his government, replacing three commissioners and appointing deputies for most of the portfolios. By mid-July, the Germans had decided that the Aćimović regime was incompetent and unable to deal with the uprising, and began looking for a replacement. This resulted in the resignation of the Commissioner Government at the end of August, and the appointment of theGovernment of National Salvation led by formerMinister of the Army and Navy,Armijski đeneralMilan Nedić, in which Aćimović initially retained the interior portfolio. The members of the Commissioner Government collaborated with the occupiers as a means to spare Serbs from political influences that they considered more dangerous than the Germans, such as democracy, communism and multiculturalism. They actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the population and the economy, and took an "extremely opportunistic" view of theJewish question, regarding their own participation inthe Holocaust as "unpleasant but unavoidable". There is no evidence that the collaboration of the Commissioner Government moderated German occupation policies in any way. (Full article...)
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Following the bombing, Vulović spent days in a coma and was hospitalized for several months. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, broken legs, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis. These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. Vulović made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp. She had little to no memory of the incident and had nofear of flying in the aftermath of the crash. Despite her willingness to resume work as a flight attendant,Jat Airways (JAT) gave her a desk job negotiating freight contracts, feeling her presence on flights would attract too much publicity. Vulović became a celebrity in Yugoslavia and was deemed a national heroine. (Full article...)
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