Lovćen Brigade

The Lovćen Brigade was an armed force in World War II-Montenegro led by Krsto Zrnov Popović and the Greens. The unit was formed in September, 1942 with the approval of the Italian governorate of Montenegro.

The army was made up of:

I battalion, (based in Čevo, commanded by Dušan Vuković)
II battalion (based in Rijeka Crnojevića, commanded by Đoko Drecun)
III battalion (based in Brčeli, commanded by Petar Vuleković)
IV battalion (based in Velimlja, commanded by Risto Radović)

Collaboration in World War II Yugoslavia

Puppet regimes

Political
organizations

Greens
Slovene Covenant
Slovene Women's Legion
Straža
Ustaše
Yugoslav National Movement

People

Croatian & Bosniak	Mehmed Alajbegović Andrija Artuković Ivan Babić Rafael Boban Mile Budak Eduard Bunić Fedor Dragojlov Mato Dukovac Jure Francetić Miroslav Filipović Muhamed Hadžiefendić Ivo Herenčić Božidar Kavran Vladimir Košak Džafer Kulenović Osman Kulenović Dido Kvaternik Slavko Kvaternik Vladimir Laxa Bećir Lokmić Mladen Lorković Vjekoslav Luburić Mihajlo Lukić Julije Makanec Nikola Mandić Ivica Matković Vladimir Metikoš Josip Metzger Husein Miljković Ljubo Miloš Ante Nikšić Miroslav Navratil Sulejman Pačariz Ante Pavelić Stijepo Perić Ibrahim Pjanić Viktor Pavičić Ivan Prpić Osman Rastoder Husein Rovčanin Franjo Šimić Slavko Štancer Dinko Šakić Tomislav Sertić Ivan Tomašević Ante Vokić Vjekoslav Vrančić Hasan Zvizdić

Serbian	Milan Aćimović Velibor Jonić Dragomir Jovanović Milan Kalabić Dimitrije Ljotić Kosta Mušicki Milan Nedić Mihailo Olćan Svetozar Vujković

Slovene	Franc Frakelj Ernest Peterlin Gregorij Rožman Leon Rupnik

Montenegrin	Sekula Drljević Mihailo Ivanović Krsto Popović

Chetniks	Petar Baćović Miodrag Damjanović Jezdimir Dangić Momčilo Đujić Pavle Đurišić Dobroslav Jevđević Nikola Kalabić Vojislav Lukačević Draža Mihailović Aleksandar Mišić Zaharije Ostojić Kosta Pećanac Bajo Stanišić Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin

Albanian	Gajur Deralla Xhafer Deva Aćif Hadžiahmetović Xhem Hasa Rexhep Mitrovica Shaban Polluzha Mefail Shehu

Bulgarian	Ivan Mihailov Hristo Tatarchev

Military
organizations

Chetnik movement	Dinara Division Lim-Sandžak Chetnik Detachment Pećanac Chetniks

Croatian Armed Forces	Croatian Air Force Croatian Air Force Legion Croatian Home Guard Croatian Legion 369th Division 373rd Division 392nd Division Croatian Navy Croatian Naval Legion Green cadres Hadžiefendić Legion Montenegrin National Army Sandžak Muslim militia SS Handschar SS Kama Ustaše Militia Black Legion Crusaders

Government of National Salvation	Russian Corps Serbian State Guard Serbian Volunteer Corps Montenegrin Volunteer Corps 1st Belgrade Special Combat detachment

Slovene military organizations	Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia Blue Guard Legion of Death Slovene Home Guard Slovene Legion Slovene National Security Force Sokol Legion Upper Carniola Home Guard

Italian governorate of Montenegro / German occupied territory of Montenegro	Lovćen Brigade National Army of Montenegro and Herzegovina

Albanian Kingdom (1939–43) and Albanian Kingdom (1943–44)	Albanian Militia Balli Kombëtar Skanderbeg SS Skanderbeg Vulnetari

Bulgarian occupation/Independent State of Macedonia	Bulgarian Action Committees IMRO MYSRO Ohrana

See also: Invasion of Yugoslavia; World War II in Yugoslavia

Yugoslav factions in World War II

Allies

Partisans

Yugoslav Partisans
- People's Liberation Army of Macedonia
  - (Partisan faction in Macedonia

Soviet Union

Soviet Union (1944-1945)

Bulgaria

Bulgaria (1944-1945)

Albania

National Liberation Movement (limited involvement, 1944–45)

Chetniks

Chetniks (nominally Allied, extensively collaborated with the Axis)
- Montenegrin Volunteer Corps (rogue faction of the Chetnik movement, 1945)

Axis

Germany

Germany

Italy

Italy (1941–43)
- Albanian Kingdom (1939-1943)
  - Albanian Militia
  - Skanderbeg

Hungary

Hungary (1941–44)

Albania

Albania (1943–44)

Bulgaria

Bulgaria (1941–44)
- Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

Croatia

Independent State of Croatia

Serbia
(puppet
governments)

Government of National Salvation

Montenegro

Italy (Italian governorate of Montenegro (1941–43))
Germany (German occupied territory of Montenegro (1943–44))
- Lovćen Brigade (Greens movement, 1942–44)
- Sandžak Muslim militia

Slovenia

Slovene Axis supporters

see also Yugoslav Front and People of the Yugoslav Front

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