Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.5.11

A FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON THE DEŽELIĆ FAMILY IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY IN 1965 BY THE YUGOSLAV SECURITY SERVICE

Wollfy Krašić orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-7363 ; Faculty of Croatian Studies University of Zagreb

Abstract

The article analyzes the failed assassination attempt by the Yugoslav communist security service on Croatian émigré Berislav Đuro Deželić and his family in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1965. The unofficial position of the Yugoslav communist regime was that only those political opponents who engaged in violent anti-Yugoslav actions were killed abroad. Based on the documents of the Yugoslav Security Service, it is proven that Deželić was not involved in such activities, but that the Yugoslav regime tried to kill him for exclusively non-violent political work.

Keywords

Croatian émigrés; Berislav Đuro Deželić; communist Yugoslavia; political assassination; Federal Republic of Germany

Hrčak ID:

281348

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/281348

Publication date:

17.8.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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