Miloš Glišić

Miloš Glišić (1910—1945) was Yugoslav military officer.

Miloš Glišić
Native name
Милош Глишић
Born(1910-02-27)27 February 1910
Požega, Kingdom of Serbia
Died17 July 1946(1946-07-17) (aged 36)
AllegianceKingdom of Yugoslavia
Rank
  • Captain (... - 6 February 1942)
  • Major (6 February 1942 - ...)[1]
Commands held

Glišić graduated at Military Academy in Belgrade in 1933 and since 1940 worked in General Staff. On 27 March 1941 he was one of pro-Western Serb military officers who conducted coup d'état and annulled Yugoslav military alliance with Axis powers. After Axis invasion of Yugoslavia he joined Chetniks of Dragoslav Mihailović and participated in the uprising against German occupying forces. In October 1941, one of his actions against German troops in which he participated together with Partisans resulted with in German reprisals known as Kragujevac massacre. At the end of 1941 he became a commander of the Požega Chetnik Detachment.

At the beginning of 1942 he became commander of the Sandžak Military Chetnik Detachment with its command in Nova Varoš and accepted to be legalized by the Government of National Salvation.[3] In August 1942 Glišić was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Gestapo because he sabotaged German attempts to disarm his unit and intensified his communication with Mihailović. In October 1942 he was taken to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp where he was until the end of World War II. In 1946 he was captured by OZNA and put on trial together with Mihailović and six other people. In July 1947 all of them were found guilty for collaboration with Axis and war crimes and executed on unknown location in Belgrade.

Early life

Glišić was born on 27 February 1910 in Požega from mother Stanka and father Stojadin. Glišić was married and had two children.[4]

Glišić was student of Military Academy in Belgrade in period 1927—33.[5] After appropriate education in 1940 he worked in operational department of the General Staff of Royal Yugoslav Army with the rank of Captain.[6] Glišić was one of the participants of the Yugoslav coup d'état conducted on 27 March 1941 by a group of pro-Western Serb military officers who were opposed to the military alliance with Axis powers.[7]

World War II

At the beginning of the World War II Glišić became a member of the staff of Požega Chetnik Detachment and soon promoted to the rank of Major.[8] According to some sources he shared this position with Vučko Ignjatović and Marinković.[9]

Glišić represented Chetniks at the negotiations with communists held in the first half of August 1941 in village Godovik, Užička Požega.[10] The communist leader Čolović arrested Glišić after unsuccessful negotiations.[11]

According to some sources, on 16 October 1941 Glišić, then deputy of Vučko Ignjatović, participated in the joint Partisan and Chetnik attack on German forces near Knić in which 10 German soldiers were killed and 26 wounded 26. This resulted in German reprisals known as Kragujevac massacre.[12]

Gestapo Headquarter in Belgrade where Glišić was tortured, picture taken in 2012

Captured by Gestapo

On 2 August 1942 Glišić was arrested by Gestapo because they suspected that he sabotaged disarming of his detachment and communicated with Mihailović. He was interrogated and tortured in Belgrade Headquarter of Gestapo[13] to reveal the location of Mihailović and Broz. When he refused to do so, Germans transported him to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 18 October 1942. Initially he was inmate of the camp in Mathausen and since 28 June 1943 in Gusen from which he escaped in March 1945. He was soon captured and returned to Gusen where he stayed until 5 May 1945.[14]

Captured by OZNA
Glišić, sixth from the left, standing during reading of the judicial sentence

After being released from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp Glišić stayed in Austria until January 1946 when he tried to illegally enter Yugoslavia near Maribor. He was captured by OZNA.[15]

Glišić was captured by Partisans in 1945 and sentenced to death. He was executed in Belgrade at unknown location on the same night as Dragoslav Mihailović, on 17 July 1946.

References
  1. (Ćuković 1964, p. 309): "Мајор Милош Глишић, командант санџачких четнички одреда, ..."
  2. (Живковић 2017, p. XXV): "... Додајмо и да се легализовани четнички одред мајора Глишића, при влади милана Недића, такође звао „Санџачки војни четнички одред“ "
  3. (Живковић 2017, p. XXV): "... Додајмо и да се легализовани четнички одред мајора Глишића, при влади милана Недића, такође звао „Санџачки војни четнички одред“ "
  4. The trial of Dragoljub-Draža Mihailović stenographic record and documents from the trial of Dragoljub-Draža Mihailović.
  5. (Живковић 2017, p. 546): "... Војну академију је завршио током 1927–1930. године. "
  6. (Живковић 2017, p. 546): "... Генералштабну припему завршио је 1940. године, после које је остао уоперативном одељењу Генералштаба ЈВ "
  7. (Живковић 2017, p. 546): "... Био је међу официрима који су извршили преврат 27. марта "
  8. Pajović, Radoje; Željeznov, Dušan; Božović, Branislav (1987). Pavle Đurišić, Lovro Hacin, Juraj Špiler. Centar za informacije i publicitet. p. 105. ISBN 978-86-7125-006-1.
  9. Serbia), Vojnoistorijski institut (Belgrade (1982). The National liberation war and revolution in Yugoslavia (1941-1945): selected documents. Military History Institute of the Yugoslav People's Army. p. 137.
  10. (Institut 1982, p. 148)
  11. (Pilčević 1971, p. 199)
  12. (Karapandžić 1958, pp. 109-115)
  13. (Живковић 2017, p. 547): "... Под оптужбом да одржава везе са ЈВуО-м и саботира разоружавање Санџачког војно-четничког одреда, ГЕСТАПО га је ухапсио почетком августа 1942. године. Спроведен је у Ратни дом у Београду где је саслушаван и мучен. "
  14. (Живковић 2017, p. 547): "... Нешто Касније 28. јуна 1943., пребачен је у испоставу овог логора у Штајерској, одакле је успео да побегне почетком марта 1945. године. Поново је заробљен и прослеђен у логор Гусен у Немачкој, где је коначно ослобођен 5. маја1945. године. "
  15. (Живковић 2017, p. 547): "... Није се вратио у Југославију, већ се задржао у Аустрији. Почетком јануара 1946. године илегално се убацио у Југославију код Марибора, али је убрзо заробљен од стране ОЗН-е. "

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