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https://doi.org/10.21857/m16wjcwdj9
The beginnings and development of the organised anti-communist resistance in the Imotski – Posušje area (1944 – 1945): the Green Cadre and the crusader group of Ivan Nenadić
Blanka Matković
; Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Sažetak
The organization of the Croatian anti-communist resistance commenced during the first weeks following the seizure of Dalmatia and parts of eastern Herzegovina by the units of the National Liberation Army (NOV) in autumn 1944. It was in particular manifested in the form of crusader groups. In the following years, such groups were mainly operating in rural and mountain areas, in particular in the borderline area between Dalmatia and Herzegovina, where military resistance against the newly established communist rule persisted the longest. The activities of the crusader groups ended in the early 1950s, when the last active crusaders were apprehended in Dalmatia. In the meantime, crusader organizations were established, particularly in rural areas, where crusader groups, which sought retreat in the mountains of Biokovo and Kamešnica and in other locations, relied on their help. Their tasks were carrying out propaganda-related activities and providing moral and financial assistance to the crusaders. The data analysed for the needs of this paper particularly indicate that Imotska krajina was an area of intensive operation of crusader groups and organizations, which had been closely connected with the Bosnian and Herzegovinian groups from the very beginning. Available sources indicate that the Imotski territory played one of the key roles in the development and operation of crusader groups and organizations as early as towards the end of 1944. It was from the very beginning closely connected with the Posušje area in the neighbouring Herzegovina. It was from the Posušje area that the Ustasha Army units, which were entrusted with obstructing the NOV units and strengthening the existing green cadre, came to the Imotski area. In these processes, exceptionally important were Emil Storelli’s and Ivan Nenadić’s groups, which in 1945 operated in the area from Vinjan to Vran planina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they would subsequently actively cooperate with Stjepan Sičaja Gegan’s crusader group. Nenadić’s group dedicated itself to developing a wide network of outlaws in the Imotski area, thanks to which Imotska krajina would turn in the following years to one of the most intensive crusader focal points, and thus one of the key bases of the Croatian anti-communist resistance.
Ključne riječi
Second World War; Herzegovina; Imotski region; Ivan Nenadić; crusaders; anti-communist resistance; Green Cadre
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325161
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Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2024.
Posjeta: 127 *