Yugoslav Partisans

Episode Overview

Why was the Spanish Civil War so important for the later development of the partisan movement and how did the partisans come to be. The partisan movement was the strongest organized armed resistance in Europe during the Second World War. But how did the war even happen? In the 1930s, Nazism and fascism grew stronger in Europe, people and movements with dangerous intentions came to power, and the great powers did not understand the scale of the changes. Among the political parties, the Communist Party with its headquarters in Moscow is spreading its influence across the continent, but what was it really like in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia? Why was the Spanish Civil War so important for the later development of the partisan movement and how the partisans were created, see in the first episode of the series.