Yugoslav Partisans
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The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. Led by Josip Broz Tito, the Partisans are considered to be Europe's most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II.
Partisan fighter Stjepan "Stevo" Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" seconds before his execution by a Serbian State Guard unit in Valjevo, occupied Yugoslavia. These words became the Partisan slogan afterwards.
Josip Broz Tito in Bihać, 1942
Sixteen blindfolded Partisan youth await execution by German forces in Smederevska Palanka, 20 August 1941
During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. In many countries, resistance movements were sometimes also referred to as The Underground.
The first partisan of World War II Hubal and his unit in Poland in winter 1939
A 1941 Soviet poster, inviting disruption of the enemy rear and active resistance at the German-occupied territories
Belorussia, 1943. A Jewish partisan group of the Chkalov Brigade.
Italy, 1943. Italian partisans celebrating the liberation of Naples.