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Ruth Mitchell, Mihailovich & Hitler's No. 1 Headache!

"That famous Serbian battle cry effectively instilled again today in the souls of the Chetniks and Serb populace by War Minister Draja (Draza) Mihailovich, is the saddest and most nightmarish dirge Hitler has heard since embarking upon World War II. For, in the memorable lines, "Sprem'te Se, Sprem'te Chetnici," which pound and surge in the breast of the Chetnik hero above, the Nazi leader recognizes his own death knell."

Robert Low, author

"Hitler's No. 1 Headache, Draja Mihailovitch---Fighter for Freedom " LIBERTY MAGAZINE.

This article in the LIBERTY magazine by Robert Low was reprinted with permission in the American SRBOBRAN on April, 1942.

Ruth Mitchell, sister of U.S. Air Force General Billy Mitchell, is shown here in her Chetnik uniform with Lou Christopher, Vice President of BOTH the Serb National Federation and the Serb National Defense Council. Mitchell was in town to address a crowd of over 500 Americans gathered at the Schenley Hotel in Oakland (now part of Pitt's campus) to raise money for the Serbian orphans of WWII. The above photo is from the former Pittsburgh newspaper, THE PITTSBURGH SUN-TELEGRAPH.

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This program was printed on the back of the card featuring Miss Ruth Mitchell on the front. Miss Mitchell was also the author of the incredible book THE SERBS CHOSE WAR, documenting her time with General Draza Mihailovich and his Chetniks, and also her life as a German prisoner of war. The card information you see here was given to me years ago by my childhood friend, John Shatlan, who inherited it from his late aunt and uncle, Teta Mayme and Pero Kovachevich of 2123 Sidney Street, on Pittsburgh's South Side. The articles were sent to me by the late +Dinka Christi of Lebanon, PA years ago, right before her failing health necessitated a move to a nursing home. Our Serbian ancestors guarded these treasures for the younger generations to learn from.

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The Last Sermon of Pastor Friedrich Griesendorf about WHO the Serbian people are!

Source: Meet.the.Serbs

THE LAST SERMON OF FRIEDRICH GRIESENDORF,

A German Clergyman, reprinted and translated from the Eversburg newspaper, #Eversburg, #Germany.

Friedrich Griesendorf, who died in 1958, was a very educated man. He was at one time a court clergyman for the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. After World War II, he was a pastor in the Eversburg church parish where a camp of Serbian prisoners of war was located. Before retiring, he dedicated these lines to his German parishioners:

"Our country lost the war. The English, Americans and Russians won. Maybe they had much better equipment, larger armies, better leadership. In reality, it was an explicit material victory. They took the victory. However, here among us is one nation that won another more beautiful victory, a victory of the soul, a victory of the heart and honesty, a victory of peace and Christian love. THEY ARE THE SERBS. We knew them earlier, some a little and some not at all. But we all knew what we did in their homeland.

We killed hundreds of the Serbs who defended their country for one of our soldiers who represented the occupier — the oppressor. And not only that, we looked favorably when others shot at Serbs from all sides; The Croatian (Ustasha), the Italians, Albanians, Bulgarians and Hungarians. Yet we knew that among us in the prisoner of war camps were 5,000 Serbian officers, who earlier were the elite of the society and, who now resembled living skeletons, exhausted and spent from hunger. We knew that among the Serbs smoldered the belief ‘He who does not revenge is not sanctified’.”

"We are truly afraid of the revenge by these Serbian martyrs. We were afraid that after our capitulation they would do what we did to them. We imagined murder, plunder, rape, demolition and destruction of our homes. However, what happened? When the barbed wires were torn down and 5,000 Serbian skeletons found themselves free in our midst, those skeletons caressed our children. Only now can we understand why our greatest poet, Goethe, studied the Serbian language. Only now can we comprehend why the last word for Bismark, on his deathbed, was — ‘SERBIA.’

That kind of victory is more sublime than a material victory. It seems to me that only the Serbs could win such a victory, being brought up in their St. Sava’s spirit and epic poetry, which our Goethe loved so much. This victory will live for centuries in the souls of us Germans. I want to dedicate my last clergyman’s sermon to that victory and the Serbs who won it.” —

Friedrick Griesendorf.

A Program Card of Ruth Mitchell was signed by Spencer D. Irwin, associate editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The affair was held on Sunday, April 4, 1943, to raise money for the Serbian War Orphans of WWII. The event drew a crowd of more than 500 people at the Schenley Hotel, which is now a part of the Student Union on the University of Pittsburgh's (Pitt's) Oakland campus. The sponsor of the program was the Serb National Defense or SND.

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Spencer D. Irwin, Associate Editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, was considered along with Miss Mitchell, as one of the two standout American champions of the Serbs' cause to help the Serbian orphans. The Cleveland PLAIN-DEALER has always been considered one of America's leading newspapers.

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The original story "Hitler's No. 1 Headache: The Story of Draja Mihailovitch--Fighter for Freedom"by Robert Low was published here:

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