Original scientific paper
A Contribution to the Research on the Activity of Zagreb Party Organization from 1942 to 1945
Narcisa Lengel-Krizman
Abstract
The author states that at the beginning of 1942 in Zagreb the organization of the Party got rearranged and settled and that throughout the war and until the complete liberation in 1945, it remained a kind of the Army H. Q., directing all the operations of the liberation war as well as those of the Resistance in towns. During that long period the party passed through the series of failures and crises so that at times it could not accept a number of sympathizers, only because it had to come to peace and order amongst its own members. Nevertheless, the party work went on. The members were in charge of the operations, very often inside the out-of-the-party organizations, the number and network of which was almost wholly preserved. In Zagreb itself, in the period of one month there were at least one to two hundred councils of the National Liberation Movement - this can only confirm the fact that the party was never restricted in its ideological work to the limits of its organization, but that it succeeded, even under such difficult conditions, to enlarge and deepen its influence; it was trying to firm its link with thousands of the sympathizers from all the social classes. The final result of the party struggles for its union could be found in the political victory of the Communist Party in Zagreb, manifested mainly through the mass departure of its inhabitants to join the partisans and the National Liberation War, and through the help in gathering for and sending to the front of dozens of tons of different material. The author concludes the article stating that during the war Zagreb was a never exhaustible source of newly arrived partisans and supplies, of constant political work among the civilians as well as among the enemy forces.
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219213
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Publication date:
30.12.1972.
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