Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.6.7.1

THE ISSUE OF THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS OF USTASHA AND GERMAN TERROR AT THE „VOJNOVIĆ” EXECUTION GROUNDS IN BJELOVAR DURING THE PERIOD OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA (1941-1945)

Željko Karaula orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-0457

Abstract

The paper gives a brief outline of the Ustasha and German terror in Bjelovar during the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) with a focus on the issue of researching the victims who were shot on the Vojnović plateau. Although the exhumation of the murdered people was carried out after the war, it is obvious that it did not include the total number of victims. Since then, somewhat different numbers of victims have appeared in the Bjelovar public, from a few hundred to as many as 909
victims. An official stance on the subject has never been reached in historiography.

Keywords

The Independent State of Croatia; terror; shooting; victims; Vojnović; Ustasha; Germans

Hrčak ID:

307768

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/307768

Publication date:

6.9.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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