Activities of Blagoje Neskovic in revolutionary movement at the beginning of the Second World War

Abstract

This paper deals with the activity of Blagoje Neskovic immediately before the beginning and in the first months of the Second World War. Blagoje Neskovich ad taken part as a doctor and fighter in the Spanish Civil War, and after the arrival he was temporarily interned in the camp in Bileća, and afterwards exiled in native town of Kragujevac. At the end of January 1941 he came to Belgrade and moved into illegality. Soon he was elected at the post of secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Serbia. He actively took part in preparations and demonstrations themselves from 27th of March in Belgrade, where the outbreak of the Second World War found him. He had spent the largest part of the war in illegality in Belgrade (until the exit into the free territory in 1943), where he organized the resistance against the occupier in Serbia. The text was written on the basis of the literature and archive sources, primarily of Blagoje Neskovic and Brana-Petrovic Neskovic legacy being safeguarded in the Historical Archive of Belgrade.

Keywords

• blagoje neskovic
• march's demonstrations
• april war
• provincial committee