Neil Barnett
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125 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Neil Barnett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was then split up between the Germans and the Italians.
Oh, and the Bulgarians got a bit too, of course, so they all had their bits.
And Croatia was a kingdom normally under an Italian prince, but in fact, I mean, not really somebody who ever went there.
And a lot of Yugoslavia was directly ruled by the Germans.
And then, of course, there was a Quisling regime, which people forget, in Belgrade, where it was sort of pro-German Serbs.
And of course, that's not what Tito and people want to do because they were Yugoslavs and they wanted to be able to use the situation of being invaded to create the revolution.
So they did deal with the Italians and said, we're going to wait.
And the aim of the check next was, wait until the British are coming or whoever's going to liberate the Balkans are coming.
They did fight Germans sometimes, but most of the time they were trying to be low key because they didn't like the people to be slaughtered.
Tito's partisans didn't really care so much about casualties.
And of course, that was part of the moral dilemma the British had.
Because, you know, the question was, who was fighting the most Germans?
Well, of course, it was the partisans were.
They weren't always too fussy.
It was run totally on the communist lines.
You didn't have to be a communist in order to be a partisan.
But you had to buy into the idea of Yugoslavia.
Having said that, Tito also did deals with the Germans.
If doing a deal with the Germans meant doing down all the Chetniks and the Serb nationalists.
So nobody was perfect.
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