Original scientific paper
THE VELEBIT FATE OF THE RESERVE NDH COLONEL DELKO BOGDANIĆ THE UNDERGROUND SHELTER OF THE UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS
JOSIP GRBELJA
Abstract
This work refers to some documents about the fate of the Indipendent State of Croatia (NDH) colonel Delko Bogdanić and the so called guerilla fighters, then the Croatian Home Guardsmen and Ustashas, which after the Second WW were hid in Velebit from the new partisan authorities. They were divided in several groups of which the last one was caught in 1948. Some of them remained hidden in Velebit forests even after, while some succeded to escape abroad. While describing the official reports about those groups, the author here displays his own reflections on it and at the end, after having represented every individual group, their number and organization, comes to a following conclusion: 1. Many of those guerilla fighters meritted the punishment, but a great majority did not execute any terror or harm to anybody while hid in the mountain. 2. By telling the untrue stories, either panegirics or blames, the fates of those people were diversely interpretted. 3. It remains open the question if Delko Bogdanić was really killed and whether it was he, Delko Bogdanić, the man whom partisans in autumn 1945 exposed dead to the view of the inhabitants of Gospić.
Keywords
THE RESERVE NDH COLONEL; DELKO BOGDANIĆ; THE UNDERGROUND SHELTER OF THE UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS
Hrčak ID:
71314
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2002.
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