Dragomir Dragi Jovanović (July 27, 1902 in Požarevac

Požarevac

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 – July 17, 1946 in Belgrade

Belgrade

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) was a Serbian politician and Axis collaborator.

Jovanović finished a law degree at the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

's Law School

University of Belgrade Faculty of Law

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. He received a job as a police officer in the city. When he later uncovered an alleged Croatian

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 plot against King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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 during his visit to Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, he was made chief of police of Belgrade. After Alexander declared a dictatorship, Jovanović moved to an anti-communist unit. He remained in the police force up until the Second World War.

After the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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's dissolution, Jovanović was declared mayor of Belgrade by Serbia

Serbia

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's Axis-collaborating regime

Nedic's Serbia

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. For a period of time he was also in charge of the Serbian Gendarmarie

Gendarmerie (Serbia)

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When the Yugoslav Partisan resistance threatened the Serbian regime in 1944, Jovanović fled the nation to Karlsbad

Karlovy Vary

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. OZNA

OZNA

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 agents later discovered him there and returned him to the new communist Yugoslavia in 1945. He was tried as part of the Belgrade Process. He was found guilty of liquidating members of the People’s Liberation Movement, operating the Banjica concentration camp

Banjica concentration camp

Banjica concentration camp was a quisling and Nazi German concentration camp in occupied Serbia from June 1941 to September 1944 in World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbs, Roma, captured partisans, and...

, German collaboration, holding talks with Draža Mihailović

Draža Mihailovic

Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović was a Yugoslav Serbian general during World War II...

 and organizing a meeting between Mihailović and Serbian leader Milan Nedić

Milan Nedic

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He was hanged in Belgrade on July 17, 1946.