In an earlier blog post I showed a picture of Lieutenant Colonel Troels-Smith representing DIS in Yugoslavia. Let’s take a look at what actually happened and find out if DIS was successfully promoting their merchandise. Here follows the fourth part of the story.
In 1944 another order came from Croatia, mountings, lmg and machine cannons. The amount of 102,758 Swiss franc was paid in advance but only about half the lmg were delivered and the machine cannons were never delivered before the war ended.
After these first sales almost 10 years passed. In January 1952 director Henckel was in Belgrade again. At the time Dragos Jovićić was representative but by common agreement that task was handed over to Banque Yougoslave d’Exportation & de Credit where Jovićić worked. A military mission was planned to visit Copenhagen soon.
The military delegation visited the DIS factory in February 1953 as promised. The demonstrations were successful and colonel Kritic, engineer Nicolic and engineer Cvetic were suitable impressed.
Dragos Jovićić came to Denmark in 1954. The news he brought were discouraging. The financial situation was not in a good state and he considered it impossible to do further business. Later he got asylum in France and was no longer available as representative for DIS.
To be continued with the final numbers of exported goods….