The Government of National Salvation was the second state implanted by Germany on Serbia during the war, the first being the Commissioner Government, who was later forced to resign because of the need of a stronger government to halt partisans and chetniks, who started as an ally, but later turned their backs to the Yugoslav people.
Milan Nedić, the head of this state, preached an intense fight against partisans, jews, gypsies and later, in 1941, the Chetniks, an anti-Axis paramilitary group. He also accepted many Serbian and Slovene refugees, which mostly came from Croatia, under the rule of the Ustashe, who tried to vanish the Serbian people from Croatia and Bosnia.
Lyrics:
Oj Srbijo, mila mati,
Uvek ću te tako zvati
Mila zemljo, mili dome
Na srcu je slatko tvome
Srećno živet ko u raju,
Gde miline večno traju
U tebi ću srećno tek
Provoditi ovaj vek.
Prosti deci mati mila,
Sto su tebe uvredila.
Sinci će se popraviti,
Grozne suze za te liti.
Jer priznaju grehe teške,
Pitaju se za pogreške.
Život i krv liće svi,
Da se opet digneš ti.
Podigni se mati mila,
Da nam budeš što si bila,
Jer si tužno robovala,
Dugo suze prolivala.
Sunce ti se već rodilo,
Koje ti je zašlo bilo.
Na kriocu vazda tvom
Uteha je srcu mom.
Oj Srbijo, mila mati,
Uvek ću te tako zvati
Mila zemljo, mili dome
Na srcu je slatko tvome
Srećno živet ko u raju,
Gde miline večno traju
U tebi ću srećno tek
Provoditi ovaj vek.
PS.: A huge "Thank you" to my friend, Zdravko, for helping me with the lyrics. You're the best dude!
PPS: Freely translated in some stanzas, so the translation may not say exactly what the lyrics do, but I assure that the meaning is intact
