SERBIAN USE OF THE TERM "ŽIDOV" FOR JEWS IN THEIR LANGUAGE HAS NEITHER LINGUISTIC NOR HISTORICAL LOGIC SENSE

A new phenomenon among Serbian "NS" larpers on telegram is that they massively started to replace their own Serbian word "JEVREJ" for Jews and started using the Croatian word "ŽIDOV" [anglicized: Zhydov]. And if the majority of Serbian larpers still use the name JEVREJ for Jews, it is increasingly becoming a trend among them to use the name ŽIDOV, the reason for this is jealousy or envy over the fact that Croats use the word ŽIDOV, which is much more derogatory and offensive than the Serbian word JEVREJ, which in the literal sense means "God's chosen people".

Serbian nationalists themselves, such as Lazo M. Kostić, say that Serbs have always used the word "JEVREJ" and that they even tried together with Jewish press to impose that word on Croats.

Some excerpts from Kostić's book, Srbi i Jevreji ("Serbs and Jews") (Serbian Renaissance — Southport, Queensland, 1988):

The fact that there was no disdain for Jews in our country [Serbia] can be seen from the fact that they are called as a collective and as individuals by one honorable name, which is not the case with most other nations. We call them "JEVREJI"; it is the Slavic form of the western term hebrei, hebreer, etc. It is the original name of the Israelites which literally means: members of "God's chosen people".

(p. 19)

Serbian Jews also say that they are JEVREJI, so there was never any discord between us and them in their apostrophization and marking. It was not the same with our other neighboring nations (with Germans, Hungarians, especially Croats). The name of Jews among Croats was discriminatory and offensive, their official designation until 1918 and after 1941 Croats constantly called them ŽIDOVI until unification in Yugoslavia. At that time, a common name was sought and the Serbian name Jevreji was adopted, at the wish and request of the now Yugoslav Jews themselves, and it was officially accepted.

(p. 20)

The magazine "Naša reč" wrote the following in its January 1971 issue (under the title: "Ipak, zabeležite i ovo"):

...It should be said that the Jews were captured, liquidated or handed over to the Nazis by the Ustasha, as well as that the quisling NDH was the first "state" — after the Nazis — in the world to solve its Jewish problem by liquidation. It should also be added that the Jews in Croatia under occupation wore the badge "Ž" for "ŽIDOV". In occupied Serbia, the Jews were liquidated by the German Nazis in the first months of the occupation. Jews in Serbia wore the German label "Juden" on their sleeves.

(p. 23)

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"On June 11, 1903, Serbian freemasons horribly murdered Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović and his wife. [Anti-German and pro-Russian] Karađorđević dynasty was brought to the throne by his assassins. With the cooperation of the Grand Lodge of Hungary, Serbia became a reluctant tool of the Jews and Freemasons, and especially of the Grand Orient of France and Italy, and was suitable for the destruction of Turkey and Austria-Hungary. Serbia was under the significant influence of "pan-Slavism" from Russia and was now able to promote the unification of all Serbs into Greater Serbia under its own leadership and promoted this propaganda mostly to the Serbs from the Dual Monarchy [Austria-Hungary]."

— General Erich Ludendorff

E. Ludendorff, Kriegshetze und Voelkermorden in den letzten 150 Jahren [Warmongering and Genocide in the Last 150 Years], Munich, 1928, p. 78

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NEDIĆ'S SERBIA: CHETNIK PLAYGROUND

August Winter's telegram to Walter Warlimont concerning the situation in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, july 5, 1944:

I. The possibilities of mobilizing Serbian nationalist forces alongside the German Wehrmacht against Tito are politically conditioned. It is not the task of the O.B.S.O. to solve them, But it seems necessary to point out the disappointment that characterizes the anti-communist Serbian nationalists who are ready for active cooperation. The following is reported in detail:

1. The loss of prestige of the prime minister, Colonel-General Nedić, who is now, both by his followers and by the Serbian Volunteer Corps, is indisputable, is increasingly considered incapable of receiving any kind of return from the occupation authorities for his previous loyal cooperation, which would correspond national expectations.

2. In connection with this is the loss of authority of the Nedić administrative bodies in the country, which can only carry out their tasks to the extent that the ... commissioned or local Četnik leaders are willing to allow. Given the small number of non-Reichsdeutsche forces, there was practically no corresponding and sufficient pressure from German police organs.

3. Nedic's administrative apparatus, thanks to the given internal political relations, is deeply imbued with supporters of D. M. [Draža Mihailović] all the way to the top.

4. The recruitment campaigns for the SDK launched under Nedić's name have failed due to the fear of D.M. [Draža Mihailović] reprisals against family members on the one hand and the powerlessness of the Nedić organs on the other. In June, for the first time, large-scale desertions were also reported in the SDK, especially by new recruits.

5. Political criticism of the current SDK leadership appears in the SDK itself, which is accused of handling its leadership tasks purely militarily in the interests of the German Wehrmacht, while increasingly forgetting that the SDK is a national-Serbian combat organization.

NARA, Micr. No. T-311, ROLL 191, Frs. 770/1

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Nikolaj Velimirović's letter from 1956 about "collaboration" in Serbia during the World War II:

“The meaning of this word is clear. When two men pull out a sunken boat, one with a rope and the other with a hook, then they are collaborators. Both have the same goal in mind. The same goes for hunters when they want to catch a beast, so they assign roles. And they are collaborators of each other. Because they have the same goal in mind. None of the Serbian nationalists collaborated with the German occupiers. Because the Serbian nationalists on the one hand and the Germans on the other had two completely opposite goals in mind. The Germans wanted to destroy the Serbian people, and the Serbian patriots wanted to save it and free it from the Germans. Serbian nationalists did not serve the Germans, they served themselves to the Germans.”

(Obraz: pravoslavni patriotski časopis za državotvornu obnovu Srbstva, No. 2, Belgrade, 1995, p. 23)

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Houston Chamberlain's record from the First World War about the Serbs:

“The whole world knows what caused the conflict between Austria and Serbia; what Austria wanted and why it had to want it is equally clear; we also know that when Austria was forced to take up arms because Serbia refused to fulfill its demands—which aimed to ensure the punishment of the perpetrators of the assassination—it solemnly pledged to all the great powers that it would not seek any territorial expansion at Serbia's expense, nor would it impose any occupation or any diminution of Serbia's full, free sovereignty (see, for example, the German White Book No. 10). Thus, it was merely a matter of settling what could be called a "police matter" between Austria and Serbia; had no one interfered, everything would have been resolved within four weeks, and the status quo ante would have been restored, with the only difference being that the perpetrators of the assassination would be behind bars, and Serbia would have learned a harsh lesson to leave Austria—and with it, all of Europe—in peace. Anyone familiar with Eastern Europe knows that it is Serbia that never allows this part of the world to rest: all of Serbia is a nest of conspirators, passionate political idiots who consider themselves the center of the world, intoxicated by their imagined superiority and finding no good in others; while the Croats stand out as capable, brave, and strong, their cousins, the Serbs, are reckless, boastful, idiotic and criminal. Among the many thousands in England, France, and Italy who today enthusiastically support Serbia, condemn Austria, and repeat the Russian Tsar's foolish words about the "shameful waging of war against small and weak nation", who among them knows the situation and understands what Austria has had to endure from this one neighbor for nearly two generations? No one. Nevertheless, one would have thought that when the world learned that Austrian princes and princesses were murdered on their own soil by Serbs, when it became clear that these murderers were not hardened, depraved criminals acting on their own but idealistic youths driven mad by the wild talk of "Greater Serbia," emissaries of a conspiracy that included active Serbian officers and state officials, that the bombs came from a Serbian military arsenal, that a major provided the perpetrators with shooting lessons, and that senior border officials smuggled them across the Serbian border into Bosnia—one would have thought that a wave of outrage over this unprecedented atrocity would sweep across Europe. That this did not happen is highly remarkable and has not been sufficiently noted. The almost silent acceptance of this monstrous act is the work of the press: the press of England, France, Russia, and Italy; the press, which usually exploits such events, began to downplay the initial outrage almost immediately, and in no time at all, the assassination in Sarajevo was no longer talked about.”

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain, "Wer hat den Krieg verschuldet?", Neue Kriegaufsätze [New War Essays], F. Bruckmann K.-G.,  Munich, 1915, Ch. II, pp. 71-72.

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