Zbornik Janković, Vol. V No. 5-6, 2021.
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
Publication date:
17.8.2022.
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