Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 48 No. 1, 2005.
Review article
Organization of railways in the Peope's liberation struggle
Siniša Lajnert
Abstract
The article presents organization of the Railways of People's Liberation Army (ŽNOV/Željeznice narodnooslobodilačke vojske) analysing military (Supreme Headquarters, General staff for Croatia), and civil (Traffic Commission of NKOJ/National Committee of Yugoslav Liberation/; Traffic Commission of ZAVNOH/Federal Antifascist Council of People's Liberation of Croatia/) bodies responsible for it.
Care for the railway issues inside the Supreme Headquarters was a task of the Technical Department, while a Traffic Department was responsible for them inside the General staff for Croatia. Scope of the Traffic Commission of NKOJ regarding railways included construction, maintaining and control of railway traffic, and organization and management of technical training i.e. of professional schools.
According to that, Traffic Commission of NKOJ had responsilibities for the traffic in entirety. The first traffic commissioner was a general-lieutenant Sreten Žujović-Crni, being, at the same time, a member of the Supreme Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Units of Yugoslavia. Supreme governement of the people's railway network in Croatia was a responsability of the Traffic Commission of ZAVNOH. A head of that Commission was a traffic commissioner according to whose orders and under whose ruling and supervision all traffic activities in Croatia were going on (people's railway, post, telegraph and telephone, radio, road and river traffic). Executive control and direct administration of the Croatian railway service was a task of the Directorate of People's Railways in Croatia. And finally, a testimony of Vladimir Dedijer on partisan railways and sabotages of railroads, is presented, same as the citation from the speech of the minister responsible for railways in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, regarding conditions of the Yugoslav railways in the People's Liberation War.
Keywords
People's Liberation Struggle; Railways of People's Liberation Army; Supreme Headquarters; Traffic Commission of NKOJ/National Committee of Yugoslav Liberation; General staff for Croatia; Traffic Commission of ZAVNOH/Federal Antifascist Council of People's
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7026
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Publication date:
7.11.2005.
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