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'' vojvoda '' jevđević 's star in uniform , wearing the order of karađorđe 1941 -- 45 chetnik movement in herzegovina october 1962 -lrb- aged 66 -rrb- rome , italy miloševac near prača , bosnia vilayet order order of the star of karađorđe of the karađorđe 's star with swords rib.png 180 Доброслав Јевђевић 28 december 1895 '' vojvoda '' -lrb- self-appointed -rrb- dobroslav jevđević in ceremonial uniform.jpg dobroslav jevđević
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dobroslav jevđević

dobroslav jevđević -lrb- , ; 28 december 1895 -- october 1962 -rrb- was a bosnian serb politician and self-appointed chetnik commander -lrb- , вoјвода -rrb- in the herzegovina region of the axis-occupied kingdom of yugoslavia during world war ii .
he was a member of the interwar chetnik association and the organisation of yugoslav nationalists , a yugoslav national party member of the national assembly , and a leader of the opposition to king alexander until the monarch 's assassination in 1934 .
the following year , he became the propaganda chief for the yugoslav government .
following the axis invasion of yugoslavia in april 1941 , he became a chetnik leader in herzegovina and joined the chetnik movement of draža mihailović .
jevđević collaborated with the italians and later the germans in actions against the yugoslav partisans .
although jevđević recognised the authority of mihailović , who was aware of and approved of his collaboration with axis forces , a number of factors effectively rendered him independent of mihailović 's command , except when he worked closely with ilija trifunović-birčanin , mihailović 's designated commander in dalmatia , herzegovina , western bosnia and southwestern croatia .
during the joint italian -- chetnik operation alfa , jevđević 's chetniks , along with other chetnik forces , were responsible for killing between 543 and 2,500 bosnian muslim and catholic civilians in the prozor region in october 1942 .
they also participated in one of the largest axis anti-partisan operations of the war , case white , in the winter of 1943 .
his chetniks later merged with other collaborationist forces that had withdrawn towards the west , and were put under the command of the ss general odilo globocnik of the operational zone of the adriatic littoral .
jevđević fled to italy in the spring of 1945 , where he was arrested by allied military authorities and detained at a camp in grottaglie .
he was eventually set free , having received considerable allied support .
yugoslavia 's requests for extradition were ignored .
jevđević moved to rome and lived under an assumed name .
in the years following the war , he collected reports for various western intelligence services and printed anti-communist publications .
he resided in rome until his death in october 1962 .
