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The subject of this research is the Serbian State Guard - a formation created in early March 1942. It arose out of the need of the occupiers and collaborators for a stronger and more organized unit that would more successfully confront the rebel forces in the territory of Serbia. The primary objective of our research was the reconstruction of the structure, organization, mode of operation, armed activities, and formation in occupied Serbia. Created on the basis of the pre-war gendarmerie, in the specific conditions of war chaos in Serbia, it retained its primary police character, although it created larger and more mobile military formations when needed. The reorganization of the German occupying power system was also accompanied by changes in the powers and reorganizations in this collaborationist formation. One of the goals was to establish the degree of independence, that is, the subordination of the Serbian State Guard from the occupiers. Our goal was also to define where Serbian State Guard was present in the occupied Serbia, what its relationship with other collaborationist formations was, and what its tasks were. The unstable and chaotic situation of the civil war in Serbia and the common anti-communist character imposed on the Serbian State Guard the possibility of cooperation and alliance with the royalist resistance movement, so we tried to explain this complex relationship. Finally, the fate of this formation after its inclusion in the ranks of the Yugoslav Army in the homeland and its departure for emigration was presented. The material used was primarily stored in the Military Archive in Belgrade, primarily the Nedić Archive. We have also used material stored in the Archives of Yugoslavia, the Belgrade Historical Archives, the Archives of Serbia, the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, as well as from the local historical archives in Niš and Kruševac. In addition to unpublished material, published material was used as well as several hundred books, articles, discussions, and memoirs.
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