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The High Court of Belgrade rendered a decision in the case of a collaborating Prime Minister. The other 1949 settlement that he was proclaimed a war criminal when his rights and property were seized

The Belgrade court rejected the request for the rehabilitation of Milan Nedic, the Prime Minister of Serbia during the Second World War – they find "Novosti". The solution was written in hundreds of pages, on which the court explained that after examining all the evidence presented and after hearing the witness, he concluded that the legal conditions of rehabilitation were not met. not fulfilled

READAPTATION OF NEDIC means that the court did not repeal the decree of the FNRJ of 1949, whereby the collaborating prime minister was declared a war criminal, and on the basis of which he was deprived of his civil rights and property.

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The rehabilitation process lasted three years, during which 12 hearings were held. The first took place on December 7, 2015, and it was an attempt to restore the PM's civil rights from the third attempt. Namely, the two previous demands of the Serbian Liberal Party, after the Serbian Liberal Council and the Association of Political Prisoners and Victims of the Communist Regime, were rejected by the court for formal legal reasons, but these decisions were abolished in the appeal procedure. VICTIMS " Of four historians who testified in court, two of them publicly expressed Nedic's guilt Prof. Dr. Milan Ristović asserted that he had incited crimes and l & # 39; Anti-Semitism to his speeches, and his apparatus was involved in the arrest of Jews and anti-fascists and shootings. "Dr. Aleksandar Stojanovic accuses him of treason because, contrary to the constitution, he denies the legal subjectivity of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Since 2015, a total of six witnesses have been heard, including Zarko Vidovic, a famous historian and philosopher, former jumper and detainee of Jasenovac and the old fair, and monk Jevrosi of Trojeručica Monastery. , the world name Bosiljka Kujundžić, the mother of the former Minister of Culture Bratislav Petković The court was sent to thousands of documents, most of which came from the Serbian Archives

The demand that the "Serbian mother", Nedic, be rehabilitated by the Serbian Liberal Council, the Association of Political Prisoners and Victims of the Communist Regime and the Nedic family. Nedic was at the helm of the National Salvation Government from August 1941 to October 1944. The advocates of rehabilitation attempted throughout the process to prove that he was not responsible for the l '. Holocaust neither the establishment of the camp nor the mass shooting. They also argued that it did not violate international conventions that regulated the Prime Minister's conduct in an occupied country. According to Zoran Zivanovic 's lawyer, the government he directed was training and working in accordance with the legal standards of the time, as international law states that when a state capitulates, it does not. There is more struggle.

Proponents also claimed to have saved 350,000 Serbs from the NDH, 50,000 Slovenes, plus Serbs fleeing Italians, Kosovo Albanians, Bulgaria and Hungarians. He also showed that he had helped many drug addicts arrested, while he was at war with the communists, considering them responsible for massive German reprisals against civilians in Serbia. Among them is the director Puriša Đorđević. In order to save them from death, he founded the Institute for the Rehabilitation of Serbian Youth in Smederevska Palanka

There were further protests during the trial

The Nedic government was dissolved on October 4, 1944, and two days later most of the ministers were transferred from Belgrade to Vienna and then to Kitzbyll. The British surrendered him to Yugoslav forces on 1 January 1946. According to the official version, he was killed by jumping from the window of the Ozna prison to Zmaj Jovina 21. Nedic never been formally charged or convicted.