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The 1943 surrender of fascist Italy, the movement\u2019s erstwhile most reliable ally, as well as the withdrawal of political and military support from the Yugoslav government in exile and the West in 1944 resulted in increasingly substantial and formal collaboration between Chetnik formations and the armed forces of the Third Reich. This fact also sealed the fate of the Chetnik movement at the end of World War II. During summer 1944, the Chetniks, as part of a German-led coalition, participated in its attempt at preventing the Partisans from crossing into Serbia and simultaneously played an important part in securing the German army\u2019s smooth retreat from Greece. After losing the battle for Serbia, the Germans and Chetniks retreated west, while Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107 relocated his headquarters to Bosnia. He was joined there in late 1944 by Chetniks from Sand\u017eak and, in early 1945, by several thousand Chetniks from Montenegro led by Pavle \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107. Unlike Mihailovi\u0107, who decided to return to Serbia, \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107 headed west. He was going to catch up with Chetnik units from Lika that were already there, led by Dobroslav Jev\u0111evi\u0107, as well as Chetnik units from Dalmatia, western Bosnia, and southern Lika commanded by Father Mom\u010dilo \u0110uji\u0107. In late 1944 and early 1945, the Germans organised their transfer to the Slovene Littoral to have them fight local Partisan units there. However, despite a previously reached agreement allowing them passage across NDH <\/em>territory, near Banja Luka (in Lijev\u010de polje) there was an armed clash with Usta\u0161e <\/em>forces at the end of March and beginning of April, in which the Montenegrin Chetniks were defeated, while Pavle \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107 was captured and later murdered. The Usta\u0161e <\/em>authorities allowed those Chetniks who survived and surrendered to continue toward Slovenia and Austria. On 15 May 1945, these Chetniks, along with members of the NDH<\/em> armed forces, surrendered at Bleiburg to the representatives of the Yugoslav Army. Over the following few weeks, around 2,000 of them were murdered in various killing grounds across Slovenia. More fortunate were the Chetniks commanded by Jev\u0111evi\u0107 and \u0110uji\u0107, who surrendered to the British on 5 May 1945 in the vicinity of Trieste. Following a short spell in captivity, they were released and did not return to Yugoslavia. Dobroslav Jev\u0111evi\u0107 settled in Italy, dying there in 1962, while Mom\u010dilo \u0110uji\u0107 emigrated to the United Stated, where he died in 1999.<\/p>\n In their attempt to reach Serbia from Bosnia in mid May 1945, the Chetnik units under the command of Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107 suffered great losses in fighting with Partisan formations, which in the meantime had been renamed the Yugoslav Army. Mihailovi\u0107 himself successfully evaded capture, hiding in eastern Bosnia, and it was only due to a ploy performed by OZNA<\/em> (Odjeljenje za za\u0161titu naroda \/ \u041e\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0435\u045a\u0435 \u0437\u0430 \u0437\u0430\u0448\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0443 \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430, <\/em>the earliest security and intelligence agency of communist Yugoslavia) and the treachery of the Chetnik commander Nikola Kalabi\u0107 that he was caught in the vicinity of Vi\u0161egrad on 13 March 1946. Following a brief trial in Belgrade, on 15 July 1946 Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107 was found guilty of war crimes and collaboration with the occupiers and their allies in Yugoslavia. He was sentenced to death and shot on 17 July 1946.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1666873304028{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]![\"\"](\"https:\/\/balkan-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/C\u030cetnici-u-Zagrebu-650x433.jpg\")
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