Dušan Simović

Dušan Simović , in Serb Cyrillic ДушанСимовић (born with Kragujevac the October 28th 1882 - died with Belgrade the August 26th 1962), was a Serb Militaire . He was Général in the army of the Royaume of Yugoslavia.

The March 27th 1941, with the support of the Great Britain, Dušan Simović fomented a Coup d'etat, which forced the prince Paul, regent of the Royaume of Yugoslavia, to leave the capacity and which installed on the throne the king Pierre II before his majority. Directed by Simović, the operation was organized and carried out by the general Borivoje Mirković. The motivations of Simović was undoubtedly initially nationalist; because, the March 25th 1941, under the pressure of Hitler, the president of the Council Dragiša Cvetković and its Foreign Minister came to sign with Vienna the accession of Yugoslavia to the tripartite Pacte, thus arranging the country at the side of the powers of the Axe; by this agreement, prince Paul, regent of the kingdom, had hoped to keep the kingdom away of the Second world war. This signature had caused many street demonstrations in Belgrade. It was also a question of being opposed to the agreement made between Cvetković and the Croatian political leader Vladko Maček; this Agreement Cvetković-Maček, signed the August 26th 1939, had envisaged a greater autonomy of the province of Croatia.

Simović formed a government of national union then. Its first decision was to denounce the signature of the tripartite Pact of March 25th and to sign with Moscow a non-aggression pact. The reaction of Hitler was not made wait: the April 6th 1941, Belgrade was bombarded by the Luftwaffe.

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