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@""There is no way on earth it was a historical country."" Yes, well, try telling that to . Frankly, I don't know what his current views are, or whether he's stopped pushing that recently, but I know I've been trying to hammer that point for months over there. For some reason, I honestly cannot fathom why, he's attached to presenting General Nedic's Government of National Salvation as a WWII Serbian state (see this version, for example).

Tomasevich and Ramet, as I recall, are both very clear on the issue:

@""Do you have any suggestions as to an alternative article title?"" There's the problem. Notice the wording of the current ""compromise title"": Serbia under German occupation. What ""Serbia"" was it that was under occupation? As I said above, there was no ""Serbia"" since 1918, and the Federal State of Serbia was only de facto established after the liberation of the territory in question (with the establishment of the ASNOS on 12 November 1944 in newly-liberated Belgrade). It does not even geographically correspond with post-war Serbia (as it is significantly smaller).

The whole situation over there is a mess born out of compromise. We essentially have only two organizations in the area: the Military Administration in Serbia, and its subordinate Government of National Salvation. As far as I'm concerned, its perfectly fine whether we decide to cover them as one article (entitled ""Military Administration in Serbia""), or if the Government of National Salvation gets its own article. What we do not need is this weird article entitled as if it covers an entirely imaginary occupied country. The point is that the official, real name of the territory was ""Military Administration in Serbia"". A situation perfectly analogous with all the other five Military Administrations.

As I said, the situation is confused by the fact that ""Serbia"" is apparently the nickname for the ""Military Administration in Serbia"" (i.e. the territory known under that occupation ""designation""). Look at Tomasevich. He says ""the Puppet Government of Serbia"", suggesting (to a person who did not actually read the text) that this ""Serbia"" was some sort of puppet country. Even though it is perfectly obvious, as you say, that there was no such historical country. Enter PANONIAN, proclaiming that Tomasevich supports him in the claim that there was a country called ""Serbia"", and that the Government of National Salvation was only the government thereof. And then here comes General Nedic with some coins he issued with the name ""Serbia"", and presto - a new historical country.   (talk) "