Milan Blagojević Španac Explained

Milan Blagojević
Nickname:	Španac
Birth Date:	14 October 1905
Birth Place:	Natalinci, Kingdom of Serbia
Death Place:	Užička Požega, German-occupied Serbia
Allegiance:	Spanish Republican Army Yugoslav Partisans
Battles:	Spanish Civil War World War II
Awards:	Order of the People's Hero

Milan Blagojević (Serbian: Милан Благојевић; 14 October 1905  - 28/29 October 1941), better known as Španac (Serbian: Шпанац;) was a Yugoslav partisan, Spanish-trained commando and republican volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and is credited for initiating the anti-fascist struggle in Yugoslavia during World War II.^{[1] [2]} Partisan commander Milan Blagojević Španac was killed by the Chetniks in October 1941 in Požega.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• Milan Blagojević - Namenska
• Blagojević (family name)
• List of military headstamps – Yugoslavia
• Yugoslav volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Notes and References

1. Book: Zbornik narodnih heroja Jugoslavije. 1958. NIP Omladina. Belgrade. 21 October 2017.
2. Book: Aleš Bebler. Naši Španci: zbornik fotografija i dokumenata o učešću jugoslovenskih dobrovoljaca u španskom ratu 1936-1939. 1961. Španski borci Jugoslavije.
3. Goran Marković; (2014) Četnici i antifašizam (Chetniks and anti-fascism, in Serbian) p. 183; Hereticus Časopis za preispitivanje proslosti Vol. XII, No. l-2; http://media.hereticus.org/2015/02/Hereticus-1-2-2014.pdf
4. Политика(Politika); (05.04.2015) Sud rehabilitovao streljanog zbog ubistva Milana Blagojevića(in serbian) (The court rehabilitated the person shot for the murder of Milan Blagojevic) http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/323734/Sud-rehabilitovao-streljanog-zbog-ubistva-Milana-Blagojevica