Narrow escape for Yugoslav partisans

9th June 1943: The Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito and the British Military Mission are hunted by the Germans as they escape over the mountains

The Yugoslav Partisans mounted a very effective resistance operation against the Nazi occupiers - tying down tens of thousands of German troops. Soldiers of the 4th Montenegrin Proletarian Brigade.

In Yugoslavia rival groups of resistance fighters had become a major nuisance to the occupying German forces. Emerging as the likely dominant group were the c…