Dobroslav Jevđević
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vojvoda Dobroslav Jevđević |
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Jevđević in uniform, wearing the Order of Karađorđe's Star
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| Native name | Доброслав Јевђевић |
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28 December 1895 Miloševac near Prača, Bosnia Vilayet |
| Died | October 1962 (aged 66) Rome, Italy |
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| Years of service | 1941–45 |
| Rank | vojvoda (self-appointed) |
| Commands held | Chetnik movement in Herzegovina |
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| Awards |
 Order of Karađorđe's Star
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Dobroslav Jevđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Доброслав Јевђевић, pronounced [dobroslaʋ jêʋdʑevitɕ]; 28 December 1895 – October 1962) was a Bosnian Serb politician and self-appointed Chetnik commander (Serbo-Croatian: vojvoda, вoјвода) 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 between 1929 and 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.
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