honorific_prefix serviceyears branch death_date death_place birth_place placeofburial_label native_name birth_date placeofburial rank image article_title name
'' vojvoda '' 1927 -- 45 army april 1945 -lrb- aged 35 -rrb- independent state of croatia podgorica , principality of montenegro place of burial Павле Ђуришић 09 july 1909 unknown lieutenant colonel pavle durisic.jpg pavle Đurišić
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pavle Đurišić

pavle Đurišić -lrb- , ; 9 july 1909 -- april 1945 -rrb- was a montenegrin serb regular officer of the royal yugoslav army who became a chetnik commander -lrb- `` vojvoda '' -rrb- and led a significant proportion of the chetniks in montenegro during world war ii .
he distinguished himself and became one of the main commanders during the popular uprising against the italians in montenegro in july 1941 , and later collaborated with the italians in actions against the yugoslav partisans .
in 1943 , his troops carried out several massacres against the muslim population of bosnia , herzegovina and the sandžak , and participated in the anti-partisan case white offensive alongside italian forces .
Đurišić was captured by the germans in may 1943 , escaped and was recaptured .
after the capitulation of italy , the germans released Đurišić and he began collaborating with them and the serbian puppet government .
in 1944 , he created the montenegrin volunteer corps with assistance from the germans , milan nedić , and dimitrije ljotić .
in late 1944 , the german commander in montenegro decorated him with the iron cross 2nd class .
Đurišić was killed following the battle of lijevče field , after being captured by elements of the armed forces of the independent state of croatia near banja luka in an apparent trap set by them and montenegrin separatist sekula drljević .
some of Đurišić 's troops were killed either in this battle or in later attacks by the partisans as they then continued their withdrawal west .
others attempted to withdraw to austria ; they were forced to surrender to the partisans and were killed in the kočevski rog area of southern slovenia in may and june 1945 .
Đurišić was a very able yugoslav chetnik leader ; his fighting skills were respected by his allies and opponents alike .
