Original scientific paper
Partisan liquidations in the deanery of Cetina in World War II and in post- war period (1941-1947)
Josip Dukić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-8661
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The centre of the author’s interest are numerous persons from the Deanery of Cetina (up to November 14th 1954 it was called the Deanery of Trilj/Sinj) who were liquidated by the partisan army beyond the war operations, as well as the persons who were bru- tally murdered, mainly under cover of darkness, in the same Dea- nery at the end of the war and in the post-war period by the newly established government, which was, as well as the partisan move- ment, under the control of the Communist Party. The reason for cho- osing this subject lies solely in the fact that those liquidations and repressions were generally shrouded in silence until the beginning of the democratic changes. The introduction of the article presents all the important references to the subject of suffering. Then follows the chapter that shows in tabular form the entire, though still not the final, number of people who were killed by all the armies in the Deanery of Cetina in the World War II. The article originated on the basis of bibliography and archival materials, published and unpublished. This article only partially uses up the subject and opens new areas of work. The author is convinced that it is necessary to work on until the final number of victims in the Deanery is discovered and the circumstances of their suffering investigated, which is the hardest part of the process of research, but is also a major pre- requisite for an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
Keywords
Deanery of Cetina; World War II; postwar period; partisan liquidations; “commissar’s dictatorship”; “heroes of the night”; list of victims
Hrčak ID:
155281
URI
Publication date:
7.4.2016.
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