Postcard celebrating the fall of Belgrade, Serbia, to German and Austro-Hungarian forces under the command of Generals von Gallwitz & General Kövess v. Kövesshaza on October 9, 1915. Images of the city include the King's Palace, Terazié Square, the University, the National Theater, King Milan Street, and the city from the Save River.
Belgrad erobert von den Verbündeten am 9. Oktober 1915General Kövess v. Kövesshaza, General von GallwitzKönigs-Palast, Terazié, Universität, National Theater, König Milan Strasse, Belgrad von der SaveBelgrade conquered by the allies on 9 October 1915General Kövess v. Kövesshaza, General von GallwitzKing's Palace, Terazié, University, National Theater, King Milan Street, Belgrade from the Save5361Reverse:Card postmarked Belgrade, June 6, 1918
"Regent Alexander then used his right and commuted the death sentences passed on Colonels Milovanović, Lazić, and Tucović and on Lieutenant-Colonel Vemić to twenty years in prison, while he reduced the prison sentences of Čedomir Popović, and Vice-Consul Radenković to ten years. Dragutin Dimitrijević, Ljubomir Vulović, and Rade Malobabić were executed near Salonika at dawn on 13 July 1917.The Salonika trial was rigged, its aim having been the forcible removal of a dangerous political rival. The executions of Dimitrijević, Vulović, and Malobabić were in fact political assassinations under the cover of a judicial sentence."
Dragutin Dimitrijević, known as Apis, was a colonel in the Serbian Army and leader of the Black Hand Society that had plotted the 1914 assassination of Franz Ferdinand and supplied weapons to the assassins. After the conquest of Serbia, with its government in exile and its army fighting on the Salonica Front, three factions struggled for control. One was centered on the Government of Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, another around Regent Alexander. The core of the third was Apis and the Black Hand. Those who stood trial in Salonica were accused of plotting against the Serbian Government and attempting to assassinate Alexander. Sentenced to death, Apis was executed on July 13, 1917. (In his excellent history of the war on the Salonica Front, The Gardeners of Salonika, Alan Palmer (page 137) dates the execution on June 26.) Crown Prince Alexander became Regent of Serbia on June 24, 1914 after his father, King Peter, turned over royal authority to his son.
Serbia's Great War 1914-1918 by Andrej Mitrovic, page 183, copyright © Andrej Mitrovic, 2007, publisher: Purdue University Press, publication date: 2007
1917-07-13, 1917, July, Apis, Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
