Dimitrije Ljotić

Dimitrije Ljotić, born on August twelfth, nineteen ninety-one, was a prominent Serbian and Yugoslav politician and lawyer known for his controversial ideologies. He established the Yugoslav National Movement, Zbor, in nineteen thirty-five, a party that struggled to gain traction among the Serbian populace, receiving less than one percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections of nineteen thirty-five and nineteen thirty-eight.

His political career began after serving in the Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars and World War I, where he remained active until nineteen twenty. Ljotić joined the People's Radical Party in nineteen thirty and became a regional deputy for the Smederevo District by nineteen thirty. His brief tenure as Yugoslav Minister of Justice in nineteen thirty-one ended in resignation due to disagreements with King Alexander I regarding the political system.

In the late nineteen thirties, Ljotić's political ambitions faced significant challenges, including his arrest and subsequent confinement in an asylum. His opposition to the Cvetković–Maček Agreement in nineteen thirty-nine incited violent reactions from his supporters. Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April nineteen forty-one, he was invited to join the Serbian puppet government but declined the position of economic commissioner due to his unpopularity and reluctance to play a secondary role.

Despite being publicly denounced as a traitor by the Yugoslav government-in-exile and Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović in July nineteen forty-two, Ljotić continued to exert influence through his associates. He was involved in forming the Serbian Volunteer Corps, which later became known as the Serbian Volunteer Detachments. Tragically, Ljotić's life was cut short in an automobile accident on April twenty-third, nineteen forty-five, and he was laid to rest in Šempeter pri Gorici.