Original scientific paper
How Ustashe Treated Croatian Peasant Party in Koprivnica Area and Ustashe Concentration Camp »Danica«, Nearby Koprivnica (1941-1942)
Zdravko Dizdar
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Based on the available sources and literature, the author deals with relationship and how Ustashe treated HSS in Koprivnica area in the period 1941 - 1942, particularly toward the dominant HSS left-wing in the broadest sense, as the party members here refused to support and join the Ustashe movement. This is why the HSS party members, before and after the party had been banned, (11 June 1941) were exposed to different pressures and arrests by the Ustashe regime of the NDH, the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Some 50 former members of the HSS party leadership in local, municipal, town’s and district’s committees, mostly from Koprivnica, Bjelovar and Đurđevac, after arrest were deported to the concentration camp »Danica«; some ended up in other concentration camps too, but majority was eventually released, while some were murdered.
Keywords
Croatian Peasant Party; ustashe concentaration camp Danica; Koprivnica
Hrčak ID:
78291
URI
Publication date:
1.5.2006.
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