“Serbian Mother” Before the Court of Nation

Milan Nedić and Rehabilitation of Collaboration in Postsocialist Serbia

Milivoj, Bešlin

LIMESplus

2-3

9

22

1820-0869

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=842179

2018-2021/10/18/12:01:58

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a synthesized overview of the theory and practice of revisionist policies in the dominant parts of Serbian society and historiography. The paper focuses on the historical role of the president of the Quisling Government in occupied Serbia, Milan Nedic. Despite the unquestionable collaboration, which was not only political and institutional but also ideological and practical, which was manifested in the adoption and implementation of the “Aryan” racist ordinances and the Holocaust, social and media rehabilitation of Milan Nedic began in the first years after the breakdown of socialism. Different aspects of the society, from the church to the theater and the media, participated in these activities. The peak of the rehabilitation of the collaboration and of Milan Nedic in post-socialist Serbia took place in the first decade of the 21st century when the top of the state invited the public to honour the personification of Serbian quislings - as patriots and martyrs. The paper also analyzes the attempt of judicial rehabilitation of Milan Nedic.

collaboration, Historical revisionism, Holocaust, Milan Nedic, nationalism, rehabilitation, Serbia, World War II