Kosta Mušicki was a general of the Serbian Volunteer Corps

Serbian Volunteer Corps

The Serbian Volunteer Corps or SDK , also known as Ljotićevci after their ideological leader Dimitrije Ljotić, was a collaborationist anti-Partisan military formation in Nedić's Serbia during World War II. In July 1941, a full scale rebellion by the communist Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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Mušicki finished gymnasium in 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...

 and served Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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 in the First World War. After the war he remained a soldier in the Royal Yugoslav Army

Royal Yugoslav Army

The Royal Yugoslav Army was the armed force of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from the state's formation until the force's surrender to the Axis powers on April 17, 1941...

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During the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia

Independent State of Croatia

The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...

, Mušicki remained with the Yugoslavian army and was taken prisoner by Croatian forces. However, he was soon released and sent to Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 where he came into contact with ZBOR

ZBOR

Yugoslav National Movement "Zbor" , commonly known simply as ZBOR, was a Yugoslav fascist and conservative nationalist movement formed in 1935 by Dimitrije Ljotić. ZBOR's ideology was a blend of Italian Fascism, Nazism, and Serbian Orthodox Christian fundamentalism...

 leader Dimitrije Ljotić

Dimitrije Ljotic

Dimitrije Ljotić was a Serbian politician and Nazi German collaborationist during World War II.Although born in Belgrade he spent most of his life in Smederevo. His ancestors came to Serbia from the village of Blace in what is today Greek Macedonia during the first half of 19th century...

. He was later made commander of the newly formed Serbian Volunteer Corps

Serbian Volunteer Corps

The Serbian Volunteer Corps or SDK , also known as Ljotićevci after their ideological leader Dimitrije Ljotić, was a collaborationist anti-Partisan military formation in Nedić's Serbia during World War II. In July 1941, a full scale rebellion by the communist Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist...

 set up by Milan Nedić's government

Nedic's Serbia

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. He served in this post for much of the war. His final act as commander of the corps was to make his troops part of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (more commonly known as Chetniks

Chetniks

Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement , were Serbian nationalist and royalist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century. The Chetniks were formed as a Serbian resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II...

). This was done very near the war's end in order to save what was left of pre-World War II Kingdom of Yugoslavia after it became clear that the Anglo-American Alliance favoured the Communists to take over the country.

On August 24, 1945 he was caught by the British Army

British Army

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 and was later handed over to officials from communist Yugoslavia. Mušicki was accused along with Draža Mihailović

Trial of Draža Mihailovic

The Trial of Draža Mihailović, or the Belgrade Process, was the trial of Draža Mihailović and a number of other alleged so-called prominent collaborators for high treason and war crimes in 1946. Mihailović was tried as a leader of the Chetnik movement during World War II...

. He was sentenced for several crimes, including responsibility for the Kragujevac massacre

Kragujevac massacre

The Kragujevac massacre was the murder of men and boys in Kragujevac, Serbia, by Nazi German soldiers between 20–21 October 1941. All males from the town between the ages of sixteen and sixty were assembled, including high school students, and the victims were selected from amongst them...

and Axis-collaboration. He was executed in Belgrade in 1946.