Čedomir Marjanović Explained

Čedomir Marjanović
Order:Minister of Justice of the Government of National Salvation
Term Start:29 August 1941
Term End:10 November 1942
Predecessor:None
Successor:Bogoljub Kujundžić
Birth Date:27 May 1906
Birth Place:Veliko Orašje, Kingdom of Serbia
Death Place:Belgrade, FS Serbia, DF Yugoslavia
Death Cause:executed
Nationality:
Government of National Salvation
Party:Zbor
Alma Mater:University of Belgrade
Profession:Politician

Čedomir Marjanović (27 May 1906 – 19 September 1945) was a Serbian politician who collaborated with the Axis powers in World War II. He was appointed Minister of Justice of the Government of National Salvation in 1941, and retained that position until November 1942. After the fall of the government he was captured in Vienna Austria after the war in August 1945 by American forces as he attempted to fled to Italy and handed over to the Yugoslav partisans and was executed together with Dušan Letica, Radoslav Veselinović, Stojimir Dobrosavljević, Budimir Cvijanović and two Croatian generals Ivan Tomašević, Vladimir Metikoš, and fifteen others collaborators in Nedić's Serbia and the Independent State of Croatia on 19 September 1945, for their war crimes against Jews, Romani, and fighting against the National Liberation Army and collaboration with Germans Italians and Bulgarians and other occupying forces and was linked to Zbor after the invasion of Yugoslavia that April, he was one of the closest associates of Dimitrije Ljotić.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Ramet, Sabrina P. The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918-2005. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2006. Print.