The idea of Yugoslav or South Slav unification outside of the Habsburg domain started to gain serious momentum only during the 1912–1913 Balkan Wars, and was silenced after the outbreak of the First World War, not only by the arrests of its proponents, the discontinuation of public political life, and the inauguration of preventive censorship, but also with an inner shift towards those agents of C. [...] In 1915 and later through the war, as the frontlines be- came more static, especially on the Russian and the Italian fronts,5 many of the battlefield cemeteries were appropriated in a way by singular battalions or regiments that had fought in the area for some time, and whose members tended to form the majority of the buried. [...] According to the first, a completely new department with- in the Commissariat for Internal Affairs should be organised; according to the second, the General Register Office (Matičar- ska referada) of the Commissariat for Education and Religions should also take care of the war graves; according to the third, the responsibilities should go to the Public Health Depart- ment (now a part of the Commis. [...] Furthermore, implying international relations of the King- dom of Serbia during the First World War, the Decree regulat- ed the care for the graves "of the soldiers of the allied armies" on the territory of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slo- venes. [...] 278–283), in the 1929 re-organisation, the Ministry of Religions was disbanded, and its affairs were transferred to the Religious Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as the state was renamed.
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