Original scientific paper
POPULATION LOSSES IN CROATIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1950
Mate Rupić
; Jasenovac Memorial Site, Jasenovac, Croatia
Abstract
The 1950 commission investigating the number of victims of the National Struggle for Liberation established numbers which confirmed those recorded earlier by the Commission for war damages in 1946 and those recorded later by the Commission for investigating victims of the Second World War in 1964. However, up until now, the results made by the 1950 Commission have been unjustifiably neglected by researchers. They were never officially published, but were kept secret and the materials were unavailable to researchers at the Archive of Yugoslavia in Belgrade. The results of the 1946 Commission were unacceptable to authorities because the number of victims registered for the "anti-fascists" were smaller by half than the figures established for the deaths of "enemies of the people." The 1950 Commission investigated only the number of losses suffered on the side of the Movement for National Liberation. For Croatia, 159 193 deaths were counted. The list of victims was tabulated with respect to place, manner, and year of death, nationality, gender, occupation, and age.
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Hrčak ID:
207236
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Publication date:
1.4.2001.
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