Professional paper
NAVAL OFFICERS OF THE ZACCARIA FAMILY
Rhea Ivanuš
; Croatian History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author examines the tragic fate of the Zaccaria family in the political circumstances of the First World War, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Second World War and afterward. The members of the family were educated to be naval officers. Ernst Zaccaria died in a naval accident near Venice in August 1915. He was serving as an officer on submarine U-12. His younger brother began his naval career on the battleship S.M.S Prinz Eugen of the Tegethoff class and continued on to become the captain of battle ship during the period of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). During the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia he served on the ships ‘Spacilac’ and ‘Zmaj,’ and then during the period of the NDH he was for a time assigned to the Admiralty of the NDH and then later to the Coast Guard in Split, but he never served in the Croatian naval squadron that operated on the Black Sea. After the war he was accused of serving in the naval squadron that operated on the Black Sea and was executed in 1946, even though his name is not entered on the Federal Republic of Croatia’s list of persons accused of collaborating with the forces of the occupation.
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Hrčak ID:
209006
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Publication date:
14.10.2002.
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