The Commissioner Government was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist
puppet government established in the German-occupied territory of Serbia
during World War II from 30 April to 29 August 1941. It was headed by
Milan Aćimović (pictured) and was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-
communist. The Aćimović government was merely an instrument of the
German occupation regime, carrying out its orders within the occupied
territory without appearing to moderate its policies. The government
actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the population and the
economy, and its members regarded their own participation in the
Holocaust as "unpleasant but unavoidable". By mid-July, the Germans had
decided that the Aćimović regime was incompetent, and the Commissioner
Government resigned at the end of August. It was succeeded by the
Government of National Salvation, in which Aćimović initially retained
the interior portfolio.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioner_Government>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, leading
to the formulation of his law of induction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction>
1903:
The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-
class battleships, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Slava>
1930:
The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World
Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily
evacuated to Morvern.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland>
1959:
Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by
the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casbah_Coffee_Club>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ex contractu:
(law, postpositive) Of a legal obligation: arising from a contractual
relationship.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ex_contractu>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism,
false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.
… President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to
Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the
president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair
questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to
spew propaganda and lies to the world. … No prior president has ever
abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President
Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary; but speaking for
America to the world, our president failed to defend all that makes us
who we are — a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of
liberty at home and abroad. American presidents must be the champions of
that cause if it is to succeed. Americans are waiting and hoping for
President Trump to embrace that sacred responsibility. One can only hope
they are not waiting totally in vain.
--John McCain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCain>