Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2008.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Sentenced under urgent procedure: the role of repressive bodies of communist order during the Second World War and in the post-war period, ilustrated by data from the fonds of the Administration for the Supression of Delinquency of the Secreteriat for Internal Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia
Tatjana Šarić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5865-1354
; Hrvatski državni arhiv, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
First part of the article shortly presents functioning of repressive machinery of the communist order, that of the Department for the Protection of People (OZNA), courts, and public prosecutors, and their role in the final phase of the Second World War and post-war period. Organization and development of military and civil judiciary system of that time, and a way of its functioning, is presented too. Trial procedures, its anomalies, and inconsistencies are analyzed in that context, because they often resulted even with unjustified death penalties against enemies of the communist order. The second part of the article explores archival materials of the Administration for the Suppression of Delinquency of the Secretariat for Internal Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, kept in Croatian State Archives (HR HDA 1453), with files of death sentenced, prosecuted in the period from 1942 to 1959, in various parts of Croatia, with special review of those which were prosecuted in Zagreb. Data from those files, same as their origin, are analyzed, compared, and statistically treated, with special review of research criteria and data on sentenced – regarding their age, profession, place and year of execution, and description of their guilt, which is presented in the files, too. Conlusions, based on the analysis of the fonds, as one limited unit, are infered, too. Connection between sentenced is recognized in the fact that they eventually were members of military forces of the Independent State of Croatia, politically unacceptible in the newly created State. Mass executions, as acts of political revenge, tended to enemy cleansing, with purpose to insure undisturbed development of the new State. Guilt of the most of them was defined by qualifications such as people's enemies, and war criminals, as expressions which might have been interpreted in quite wide sense of the words. A big number of people was executed with guilt which wasn't proved, while truth on it was hidden during the years. All these facts make complete truth on the isssue hardly accessible to researchers.
Ključne riječi
Second World War; post-war period; victims; military courts; civil courts; death sentenced
Hrčak ID:
29510
URI
Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2008.
Posjeta: 4.460 *