Free State of Serbia (Axis Triumph)

The Free State of Serbia, formerly the Government of National Salvation (Serbian: Cлободно државе Србије, Влада народног спаса) was a puppet state established in Serbia by Nazi Germany after their invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. The Prime Minister was a former Royal Yugoslav Army general named Milan Nedic. The government of the Free State had little power during World War II, though was given some more authority after the war ended in 1944 with an Axis victory and the peace negotiations in Berlin.

The little authority given to the Serbian government was largely due to Hitler's views of Slavic people. He considered the Serbs to be among the most "inferior" of them, due to the fact that the Serbians dominated the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (the preceding government). Prime Minister Nedic took up the job in an attempt to improve Serbia's placed in "Hitler's New Order", as he put it on Serbian national radio.