Milan Nedić

The Belgrade Appeals Court on Tuesday confirmed the Higher Court's first-instance decision to dismiss the request to rehabilitate Milan Nedic, the wartime leader who headed a puppet government in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

The Belgrade Higher Court has dismissed the request of Milan Nedic's family to rehabilitate the leader of Serbia’s Nazi-backed World War II puppet government.

WWII-era Serbian puppet government leader Milan Nedic was not a Nazi and his ‘only guilt’ was his love for his fellow Serbs, said lawyer Zoran Zivanovic in his closing statement in Nedic’s rehabilitation case.

A Serbian village church declined to comment on why it has a plaque honouring the WWII collaborationist leader Milan Nedic, who headed a puppet government during German occupation.

A hearing on the possible rehabilitation of WWII Prime Minister Milan Nedic was told that the armed forces in occupied Serbia answered directly to the Germans, not the premier.

Serbian anti-fascists filed criminal and misdemeanour complaints against members of far-right groups for making Nazi salutes at a rally to commemorate WWII-era puppet government premier Milan Nedic.

Serbians took to social networks to condemn Nazi saluting at a rally to commemorate WWII-era Prime Minister Milan Nedic, who led a puppet government during German occupation.

A rehabilitation hearing for Milan Nedic was told that the WWII prime minister considered himself to be the Serbian version of French collaborationist leader Marshal Petain, according to a Nazi official.

Anti-fascist activists have identified a previously little-known street named after Milan Nedic, head of Serbia’s World War II Nazi collaborationist government, in the town of Arandjelovac.

A historian who testified at a rehabilitation hearing for Serbia’s WWII Prime Minister, Milan Nedic, said the collaborationist leader’s loyalty to the German regime was “absolute until the very end”.