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DOI: 10.34298/9788677431488291

UDC: 94(497.11)“1941“:929 Боришић Ж.

pp. 291–298

language: serbian

Dalibor Denda

SECOND LIEUTENANT ŽARKO BORIŠIĆ – A BIOGRAPHY

Summary

Second lieutenant Žarko Borišić become famous thanks to his contribution during the joint Chetnik-Partisan attack on the city of Kraljevo in late October 1941. As a young panzer troop officer of the Yugoslav Army, Borišić fought in the short-lasting April War. He escaped captivity and joined the resistance movement under the command of colonel Dragoljub Draža Mihailović. He operated one of two tanks during the Kraljevo operation. During the civil war between the Communists and the Royalists in Yugoslavia, being a prominent member of the Chetnik movement, Borišić was directly responsible for the torture and murders of several dozen Partisans and their supporters in the vicinity of Čačak. Borišić committed suicide in January 1945, surrounded by opponent Partisan troops. The author relied on unpublished and published material from Serbian archives, memoirs and literature in order to reconstruct the biography of this person important for the history of Kraljevo in the Second World War.

Keywords: Second World War, Kraljevo, October 1941, Žarko Borišić.