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Devotion and Loyalty the Ustashe Poglavnik A. Pavelić till Death - Two Unpublished Stories about Mijo Bzik
Željko Krušelj
; Glas Podravine, Koprivnica
Sažetak
Circumstances surrounding death of MIJO BZIK, the right hand and chief adjutant of the notorious Ustashe Poglavnik A.Pavelic were unknown and unrevealed for decades. Bzik was one of the key figures of Ustashe immigrant movement in the period between the two great wars. During the reign of the Nazi puppet regime, so-called “Independent State of Croatia” - NDH- he was the chief of the state political propaganda and their official “historian” of the Ustashe regime. Only recently Bzik’s “Statement” on key figures of his time was found in today´s state archives. The “Statement” describes not only key figures, but also the methods of reign of the Ustashe movemnent, their M.O. of a sort. The statement was given by him upon his arrest in Slovenia, and an interrogation before Communist prosecutors in Zagreb, on 9 June, 1945. It was only a few weeks before he was sentenced to death and executed by hanging. For the first time now the public has an opportunity to read the decision made (brought 9 April, 1946) by the State commission of Federal Rep.of Croatia, listing all war criminals, and Nazi collaborators. Mijo Bzik is on that list, listed as “presumably escaped abroad”; he was proclaimed a war criminal post mortem.
Ključne riječi
Ustashe movement; poglavnik (fuehrer); adjutant; war crime; so-called Independent State of Croatia
Hrčak ID:
79119
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2002.
Posjeta: 2.362 *