Serbian Volunteer Corps (World War II)
Serbian collaborationist paramilitary group and the Waffen-SS unit during WWII
Serbian Volunteer Corps (World War II)
The Serbian Volunteer Corps (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски добровољачки корпус, Serbian: Srpski dobrovoljački korpus, SDK for short; German: Serbisches Freiwilligenkorps), also known as Ljotićevci (Serbian Cyrillic: Љотићевци), was the paramilitary branch of the fascist political organisation Zbor, which collaborated with the forces of Nazi Germany in the German-occupied territory of Serbia, while loyal to the King of Yugoslavia Peter II, during World War II. In July 1941, following a full-scale rebellion by communist Yugoslav Partisans and royalist Chetniks, the German military commander in Serbia pressured Milan Nedić's collaborationist government to deal with the uprisings under the threat of letting the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia, Hungary, and Bulgaria occupy the territory and maintain peace and order in it. A paramilitary militia called the Serbian Volunteer Detachments was formed, the unit, never formally part of the German armed forces, numbered about 3,500 men,...
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