Reeanctment of Attack on Yugoslavia April 6, 1941

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Reeanctment of Attack on Yugoslavia April 6, 1941

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Reeanctment of Attack on Yugoslavia April 6, 1941 – Battle at Rupnik line

On April 28 2012 KZD Triglav re-enacted attack of German forces on Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as happened on April 6, 1941. We were lucky enough to obtain a permission to use two of original bunkers of so called Rupnik line, a Yugoslav version of French Linie Maginot.

For the first time we put together an infantry unit of the Royal Yugoslav Army and I believe we did a good job. With the help of our friends from Gardekorps (Prague), Karpathia (Bratislava), Feldgrau (Rome) , gruppe Augustin (Trieste) and few friends from Germany we made two decent battles for a about 5000 visitors who especially enjoyed the performance of famous Czech flamenwerfer. Thanks to all of you for joining us.

A special guest was Slovene Minister of Defense, who toke the rapport of both commanders, German and Yugoslav one.

It was sunny and very hot, but we had few drinks later.... Hopefully see you on battlefield in Ziri next year.
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Before the battle
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Yugoslav Royal Army
Yugoslav Royal Army
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Yugoslav border line
Yugoslav border line
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few more pics
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Report to Minister of Defense
Report to Minister of Defense
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Royal forces awaiting an attack
Royal forces awaiting an attack
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German artillery position; cannon is unfortunately not corespondent, but we haven't a better one (yet)
German artillery position; cannon is unfortunately not corespondent, but we haven't a better one (yet)
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few more...
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Flamethrower in action
Flamethrower in action
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Bunker was hit..
Bunker was hit..
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Great photo's, great scenery, great weather, great turnout of re-enactors! Well done, it looks like you all had a great day!

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last two
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Bunker is finally burned down
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The end, Yugoslav Royal Army surrended
The end, Yugoslav Royal Army surrended
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bov1313rf wrote:last two
Brilliant pics, well done to all that took part!

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real flame trower? I guess the health and safety rules in the west won't allowe that...
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Great to see a different country being reenacted, haven't seen the Yugo army before. The flametrower is a nice one too! :D
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Salacious Crumb wrote:real flame trower? I guess the health and safety rules in the west won't allowe that...
You are right with that.
In the East there is much more possible,safety-rules are there
but not as we knowe it here... :wink:
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I believe we put togather the first and the only unit of Yugoslav Royal Army. I don't believe clubs from other countries are not ''interested'' in units which are not part of their own history or German ones (of course everybody's interest is Germany).
To my knowledge in other former Yugoslav parts (Croatia, Serbia etc) there is no trace of reenacment (maybe some small events which were not noticed at all)

Flamethrower, nice indeed and very atractive for public as well. Fortunately our safety regulations are most likely slightly less strict than in some other countries; but of course we had to report event to police in advance and made (so called) Security report, where we described all pyrotechnical material which will be used & was signed by person officially authorised for work with pyrotechnical material.

So far so good; see you next year on Rupnik line..... again.
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Great pictures Guys :!: Love Yugoslavian 1930s uniforms .

Great flamethrower thing ... seen something like that on reenactment only once, later it was forbidden because of safety rules :D
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rednas wrote:Great to see a different country being reenacted, haven't seen the Yugo army before.
We, our reenactment group KZD Triglav, are now famous in our country due to a documentary Vojne igre - Wargames:



By the way, our reenactments for known customers are mostly Allied vs Germans, but private ones are strictly Slovenian partisans vs Germans:









And of course our famous project with young director Žiga Virc, who also directed two of Vojsko trailers and Vojne igre documentary, student short film, academy student awards nominee, Trieste is ours!:

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