Talk:Dimitrije Ljotić

3 fingered salute
Please say why he is not the creator of this before deleting a fact, thanks Cosnahang (talk) 21:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC) -

The three-finger salute is hundreds of years older than Ljotic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.101.238.5 (talk) 23:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Chaos or subordination
''In February 1944, Ljotić sent the 2nd Battalion of the SDK 5th Regiment to Montenegro to assist Đurišić's Chetniks. Of 893 men who were sent, 543 were killed in actions against the Partisans. On 6 September, Mihailović took control of several Serbian collaborationist formations, including the SDK.[68] Ljotić sent Ratko Parežanin, a Zbor member and editor of Naša Borba, and a detachment of thirty men to Montenegro to persuade Đurišić to withdraw his Chetniks towards German-held Slovenia, where Ljotić planned to mass Serbian forces and launch a major offensive against the NDH.[69] On 4 October, Ljotić, alongside Nedić and about 300 Serbian government officials, escaped from Belgrade with German officials.[70] At the end of October, Ljotić and SDK forces arrived in the city of Osijek. It was here that German official Hermann Neubacher agreed to arrange their safe passage towards the Slovenian coast.[69]''

This is the common way of representing things, but it is deeply wrong. Ljotić had no authority to do anything of this. SDK was under German tactical command, and no SDK unit moved anywhere unless it was a part of some German plan. The collaborators like Nedić and Ljotić could only make combinations with some background intentions, and present it to Germans as useful for them, in order to gain authorization. But, essentially, it was the Germans who had the last say. Many historians write in this manner, but this is because they don't fully understand military matters, and war especially. I suggest avoiding these sources in matters like this, and finding others, who present these relations less ridiculously.--Gorran (talk) 09:04, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * That may be true, certainly the Germans would not have allowed the deployment of a battalion of their auxiliaries to be deployed such a distance without their authority. It would be strange if Ljotic was not consulted or that he didn't encourage the Germans to support Djurisic. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 04:58, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 13:26, 29 April 2016 (UTC)