European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Things were really bad at Cacak. Up to here the brigade counted 1000 or 2700 men.
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An extravagantly dressed man then came to Cacak, he rode a horse.
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He said his armed forces – we called them Tchetniks
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and that was also their formal name – surrendered to our soldiers.
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Because we were from all over Slovenia and from Croatia, and there weren’t any of these locals in our brigade.
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That’s basically how they saved their lives.
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There were also Partisans from Cacak and they knew these people;
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but the Partisans and Tchetniks didn’t really got well on together at the time. This man brought some plans to Mesic.
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Before he got to see Mesic though, he was stripped naked and searched by our guards;
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we had to make sure he wasn’t carrying any weapons before he was allowed to see our commanding officer Mesic.
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He handed him a letter. It was written in the letter that on such and such a day our artillery was to fire
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from such and such a position at particular locations where the Germans were best organized.
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It also was written that the Tschetniks, the Serbs, would surrender to our unit.
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Our commanders, Mesic fell for it;
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and so our troops began with the preparations and then with the attack on those particular stated locations.
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Well, there were no Germans there.
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The Tschetniks attacked us from behind and they massacred the Partisans from behind.
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We lost 700 men in one night and one day in that slaughter.
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When it was all over, I wasn’t in the headquarter brigade at the time yet,
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but I was still in the troop and we had a mobilization in Cacak.
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