MILAN KALABIĆ: FROM A WARRIOR FOR OLD SERBIA TO RAVNOGORАC

Abstract

The article provides the biographical overview to the one of the prominent figures of the 1941 Serbian Uprising. Mainly known by his role in the uprising as the commander of the units belonging to the General Nedic’s Serbian Government forces in autumn 1941, and his later devotion to the General Mihailovic resistance movement. Since his illegal activities and wireless connections with Mihailovic, as the major of the Pozarevac district, Kalabic was arrested and killed by the German security authorities in Belgrade, in late 1942. This article extends his biography into First World War, when he served as the officer in Serbian Army, and later became an officer of the Yugoslav Gendarmerie. Serving in Montenegro, he committed a serious atrocity against notable Montenegro personalities, causing the transfer from Montenegro, dismissing from the service and trial. Kalabic even manage to evade the assassination from the relative of the killed Montenegrins. The article was written upon the authors research in several of Belgrade archives and consulting newspapers from contemporary period and literature.