POLITICAL-WAR CRIMINALS

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Informativni prirucnik o Jugoslavili, Book 1, Sec 1-4, 1949.
TRIALS OF YUGOSLAV TRAITORS, WAR CRIMINALS, SPIES, AND SABOTEURS
Ldomment: The following report is one of several taken from Infor-
mativni prirucnik o Jugoalaviji, a handbook published irregularly since
late 1948 by the Yugoslav Directorate for Information .7
Military and civil courts, established and developed by the people during
the National Liberation War in liberated territory, fought against criminal acts
committed against the people's interests, treason, war crimes, and other crimes
of all kinds. The people's courts were one of the supports of the National
Liberation War. Their basic function at that time and immediately after the
war was to punish traitors and war criminals. The people's courts dealt out
punishment in accordance with the principles of international law and the declar-
ations of the Allies. Yugoslav courts made logical distinctions between inten-
tional and unintentional crimes, or those committed by misguided persons, and
between persons who committed actual crimes and those who did not.
During the reconstruction period, the people's courts continued their
fight against the enemies of the state and against those who tried to undermine
the social system, economy, and legal order. Reactionary cliques attempted to
continue their activity against the people, and imperialists tried to impede
Yugoslav development an. prevent the development of socialism. Former discred-
ited politicians became agents of foreign imperialists for the purpose of creat-
ing disorder and discord. Lacking the support of the people, the imperialists
tried to organize sabotage, espionage, and diversionary actions. Ca2italisi:
elements attempted to damage the people's economy with their speculations. In
this period, the people's courts continued to protect the people's interests by
punishing spies, saboteurs, diversionists, disorganizers, and thieves.
Some of the most important trials that took place are the following.
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PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS
OF MIHAJLOVIC'S CHETNIKS
The traitorous role of Draza Mibajlovic and his organization was exposed
in a public trial before the Supreme Court (Vial vojni sud) of the Yugoslav
Army. The trial, held from 26 duly to 6 August 1945, evoked much interest
-among the people and was attended by domestic and foreign press representatives.
The confessions of the accused and a great deal of other evidence proved their
guilt before the entire world?
On triaa were Djura Diurcaric, secretary of the Central National Committee
of Draza Mihajlevic, editor. of Ujedin.jenarpstva (United Serbs), and editor
for radio information ahrcad in the Supreme Command of Draza Mihajlovic, Alek-
sandar Aksentljevic, foamier people's deputy and member of the Central National
Committee; Mustafa Mulalic former people's deputy and v4ce-president of the
Central National Committee; Aleksandar Pavlovic, Bozidar Popovic, Aleksandar
Popovic, Branislav lvkovic, Ljubisa Trifunavic, Nikola Raspopovic, members of
the Central National Committee, Vojislav Lukacevic, corps commander for Draza
Mihajlovic; Achim Slijepcevic, major an the former Yugoslav Army and adjutant
generel of the Supreme Command of Draza Minajlovic; Dragutin Keserovic, major
in the former Yugoslav Army and corps commander for Draza Mihajlovic; Vojin
Vojinovic, srez commander; Todor Parovic, liaison officer with the German and
Italian occupation commands; Branko Gasparevic, commander of the Espionage and
Diversionary Grcup, Anton Schwartz, Gestapo officer and liaison officer be-
tween the Supreme Command of Draza Minajlovic and the Gestapo; Mladen Terzic,
chief of the informataon center fcr Sarbla in tne Espionage and Diversionary
Group, Radomir Milosevic, lieutenant in the former Yugoslav Army and commander
of espionage and terrorist groups in the Ayala area, Momir Patrovic, radio-
telegraph operator of an illegal radio station; Kosta Petrovic and Aleksandar
Jovanovic, agents of the Espionage and Diversionary Group, Mihallo Mandic;
Ljubica Popovic; Jovan Grkovica captain an the former Yugoslav Army; and Rado-
mix Perica, both members of Inc Espionage and Terrorist Group
It was established during the trial that Djurovic, Aksentajevic, Mulalic,
Pavlovic, Bozidar Popovic, Aleksandar Popavic, ivkovic, Trifunovic, and Raspo-
povic joined Mihajlovic's organization during the occupation and became members
of his Central National Cammittee, thc, organization's political management
organ, although they knew that it was aga:nst the people, was traitorous, and
was servang the occupation. They helped Draza Mihajlovic represent hie traitor-
oua activity as a national liberaticn movement against the occupation. This
was done to obtain material and political assistance for the Chatniks, and to
induce tha world democracies to stop aiding the true National Liberation move-
ment. Taraugh the press and other means, they helloed Miaajlovic deceive the
uninformed ana mobilize them to fight agaanst the National Liberation movement,
wnich was floatipg against the occupation By presenting a false picture of
the situation in the country, they male Draza Mihajlovic popular at home and
abroad and portrayed the Cheanik arganizatian as toe only organization that was
fightln the ,?n,!my an eugoalavaa They worked to destroy rine unity of the
Y;goslav 11..wpi.e who fighting apaiost the occupation, promoted hatred of
ana slander about the National Iiberalin movement, and tried to organize the
massei to float against that movemant
Ia was provad chat Cuctnik Lukacevic, Kes,.,rovic, and Voj3novic,
on th,,ir own teitiaaive and un-Jet Instrurtions of Miha,lov:c, fought against
tba Nationa3 Liberation Army ant Partisan Detachmants Independently and with
German and Italian units it sae proved that they ordered persecutions of
Partlean units, fo:cibly mcbilized people for Chetbak anits, lootad entire yid-
laaas, allied ana population in mase,-e, tortured, beat, and mistreated a great
many patriots in Baran and Andrijes : :c. erects, organizas purges in the Sandzak
and other places where countlss patriots were killed, ordered beatings,
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organized forcible requisitions of food for the Chetniks, and the like. Slijep-
cevic, adjutant general for Draza Mihajlovic, chief of staff for the notorious
Colonel Bacevic, and commander of Hercegovina and eastern Bosnia, prepared radio
messages to be sent abroad according to Mihajlovic's instructions.
Following the directives of Mihajlovic and other Chetnik commanders, Pero-
vic established and maintained connections with Amigo, Piaziolli, and other
Italian generals, as well as with General Fischer, Colonel Hersch, the German
consul in Dubrovnik, the German political plenipotentiary for the Southeast,
and other Germans. He also acted as Chetnik political representative to the
Germans, conducted conferences with them, participated in the preparation of
joint actions of Chetniks with occupation armed forces, and organized the sup-
ply of arms, ammunition, food, money and other materiel to the Chetniks by the
Italians,
Gasparevic was a member of the German intelligence service. By order of
Mihajlovic and the chief of the Jagdverband for the Southeast in Vienna, Gas-
parevic entered Serbia after its liberation to conduct espionage and terrorism.
He actively fought Partisan units and sent reports to his superiors. As a mem-
ber of the Gestapo, Scawartz was in contact with Mihajlovic's organization, re-
ceived from it lists of patriots who should be arrested and killed, made agree-
ments with Chetnik commanders concerning help to the Chetniks and the admission
of wounded Chetniks into German hospitals, and carried to the chief of the
Jagdverband in Vienna the report of the Supreme Command of Mihajlovic on mutual
help and cooperation between Mihajlovic and the Germans. Terzic,
Momir Petrovic, Kosta Petrovic, Aleksander Jovanovic, Mandic, Ljubica Popovic,
Grkovic, and Radomir Peric committed espionage and terrorism even after most
of Yugoslavia was liberated. They maintained connectionn between Mihajlovic
and his officials and agents, gathered and sent information to his organiza-
tion, and helped spies and terrorists to move about the country and to hide
from the authorities.
After exhaustive examination, the court sentenced to death seven licot speci-
fied7 oe these Chetnik commanders, prominent spies, and terrorists. The others
were sentenced to from one to 20 years at hard labor.
THE TRIAL OF M:HAJLOVIC, MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE,
AND .MEMBERS OF NED1C'S GOVERNMENT
One of the most significant trials of traitors, war criminals, and col-
laborators arising out of the National Liberation War took place before the Mil-
itary Council of the Supreme Court of Yugoslavia in Belgrade from 10 to 15 July
1946, Twenty-four traitors, war criminals, and collaborators headed by Drama
Mihejlovic stood before the bar of justice to answer for crimes committed
against the vital interesri of the people; Attended by about 30,000 peonle
from all parts of the country and 2,0 domestic and 6o foreign newspapiT re-
i)orters, this trial, which was broadcast in itt entirety, showed the world the
traitorous and criminal work of the government-in-exile and reactionary groups
surrounding it as well as of its representative, Drama Mihajlovic, whose Chet-
nik organization was an agency wrking for the Fascist pillagers during the
National Liberation War.
A.cusod were Dragoijub Drama Mihri,llovic, colonel of the general staff in
th forme, Yugoslav Army, promoted during the war by the government-in-exile
to tIle rank of army general, Minister of the Army of the government-in-exile,
and cnief of staff of the Supreme Command of the Yugoslav Army in the Father-
land; Stevan Moljevic, member of toe sit,ff of the Supreme Command of Drama
Mihajlovic; Mladen 21ujovic; Zivko Topalcvic, head of the Borialist Party; Djuro
Vilovic (the last three were members of the Executjve (Stuns ii 2f the Central
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National Committee of Mihajlovic's organization); Rade Radic, Chetnik commander
in Bosnia and member of the Central National Committee; Slavcljub Vranjesevic,
major in the former Yugoslav Army and Chetnik commander in western Bosnia; Milos
Glisic, Captain in the former Yugoslav Army and commander of the Chetnik Corps;
Slobodan Jovanovic, vice president of the government-in-exile during the war
and occupation, later president of that government, and deputy of the Minister
of the Army; Bozidar Puric, former ambassador for and president of the govern-
ment-in-exile; Momcilo Nincic, for many years a government minister in prewar
Yugoslavia, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the government-in-exile; Petar
Zivkovic, general in the former Yugoslav Army, king's adjutant, president of
the 6 January dictatorship of King Alexander, member of the government-in-exile,
for some time its Minister of the Army, and assistant to the Supreme Commander
of the Yugoslav Army; Radoje Knezevic, court minister abroad during the war;
Milan Gavrilovic, former ambassador and member of the government-in-exile; Zivan
Knezevic, major in the former Yugoslav Army, chief of the military cabinet of
the government-in-exile, and military attache with AmbaFsador Fotic; Konstantin
Fotic, assistant minister and minister abroad before the war, and ambassador
in Washington of the government-in-exile; Dragomir Jovanovic, administrator of
Belgrade before the war, president of the Belgrade Municipality during the oc-
cupation, chief of Serbian State Security, and Commissar Extraordinary for Bel-
grade, and Vracar and Grocane srezes; Tanasije Dinic, colonel in the former
Yugoslav Army, during the occupation, Commissar Extraordinary of Personnel,
Assistant Commissar of the Interior, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of
Social Policy in Nedic's government; Velibor .Tonic, before the war professor
in the Military Academy, and during the occupation Commissar and Minister of
Education in Nedic's government; Djura Dokic, general in the former Yugoslav
Army and Minister of Transportation in Nedic's government; Kosta Musicki, colo-
nel in the former Yugoslav Army and during the war commander and general of the
Serbian Volunteer Corps; Bosko Pavlovic, chief of the State Police Guard in
Zagreb before the war, eeputy commander of the Serbian State Guard, and vice-
president of Nedic's government; and Lazar Markovic and Kosta Kumanudi for many
ears ministers in prewar Yugoslavia.
The court found the accused guilty
and of countless war crimes on the basis
cated reports of subordinate commanders,
nik organization, telegrams, directives,
and the like, evidence of many witnesses
cused).
of betrayal of the national interest
of numerous written documents (confis-
orders of higher staffs of the Chet-
letters, minutes, reports, pictures,
, and the pleas of guilty by the ac-
From the last half of 19h1 through the war and enemy occupation, Draza
Mihajlovic organized and commanded armed Chetniks known as the Chetniks of Draza
Mihajlovic and the Yugoslav Armies of the Fatherland. Their aim was to support
the occupation with armed action and terrorism in cooperation with the enemy
and to suPpress the armed insurrection and liberation struggle of the Serbian
and other peoples of Yugoslavia.
To frustrate the National Liberation War aJd support the occupation, Mi-
hajlovic established contact with enemy commanuers and authorities; with Milan
Medic, president co' the Serbian Government, and other known quislings in Serbia,
Croatia, and elsewhere; organized a school for terrorists in Modrica in Bosnia,
and maintained active political and military cooperation with the occupation
and its quislings. Personally or through his commanders, he made agreements
and contrr-ts with the occupation for action against his own country; he re-
ceived from the enemy armament, equipment, food, and other help for his Chet-
niks; he put his units under the command of the enemy in actions against the
National Liberation Army;-and he tried to destroy the unity of the Serbian peo-
ple in their struggle against the enemy, inciting national and religious hatred
and discord among the Yugoslav people. His Chetnik gangs massacred countless
Croatians, Moslems, and Serbian el who would not submit to the occupation but
fought for liberation. Mihajlovic land the traftorous government of which he
was a minister used propaganda against the )iber&tion struggle.
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Shortly before the country was liberated and he was politically and mili-
tarily defeated, Mihajlovic organized terrorist, gangs and groups. In the
school he organized for terrorists in Modrica, students were directed to ter-
rorize and sabotage to help the enemy in his retreat, and to endanger demo-
cratic order in Yugoslavia?
In August 1941, Mihajlovic personally led an attack against a unit of the
Valjevo Partisan Detachment in Planinica not far from Monica, although he had
made an agreement with the Valjevo Partisan Detachment that Partisans and Chet-
niks would not attack each other, Two Partisans were killed and several
wounded on this occasion.
When the National Liberation uprising flared up in Serbia and started
liberating the cities, Mihajlovic established contact with Nedic and made an
agreement with him in September 1941 for cooperation in the struggle against
te Partisans, and for their eventual extermination, and on the liquidation of
the insurrection in Serbia. In accordance with this agreement, Nedic furnished
financial help to Mihajlovic, persuaded the Germans not to fight the Chetniks,
delegated a liaison officer to the Mihajlovic staff, and prepared a joint oper-
ational plan for the liquidation of Partisans in Serbia.
In September 1941, Mihajlovic ordered his commanders to attack Partisans
in Pozega, which they had liberated from the Germans. On 1 November, he ordered
hie commanders to withdraw all units opposing the Germans and start a general
offensive against the Partisans. This opened the way to German forces to pene-
trate liberated territory. Chetniks attacked Partisan units at Uzice, Ivanjica,
Cacak, and Valjevo, On 20 November, contrary to the truce and cooperation
agreement Mihajlovic had made with the representatives of the Supreme Command
of Partisan Detachments, he ordered his commanders not to attack Germans. After-
wards, he ordered that they should cooperate openly with the enemy. Soon after,
Mihajlovic personally met with German representatives of the German Military
Command for Serbia, and with Gestapo Captain Matl and other German officers.
In the autumn of 1941, Mihajlovic 's men organized Chetnik units in Monte-
negro, the Sandzak, and Bosnia-Eersegovina Mihajlovic organized Chetniks in
Dalmatia under the name of the Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia and put them
under Italian command In Slovenia, he organized Slovenian Chetniks into Blue
Guards who openly and directly cooperated with the enemy and the quisling Slo-
venian White Guards
Mihajlovic personally directed operations of Chetniks who, in cooperation
with the Italians, fought the Partisans during the Third Enemy Offensive in
the spring of 1942, On this occasion, :talions supplied the Chetniks with arms,
ammunition, and focd and even paid some of them.
At -tee end of 1942, Mihalloei.. prepared the plan of cperations for partici-
pation of Chetniks in the Fourth Enemy Offensive, inwhich several German and
Italian divisions and Ustashi and Home Defense units participated. Mihajlovic
commanded Chetnik units Jr, this offensive through Major Ostojic until the final
phase of the offensive at the Drina river, when Mihajlovic participated per.
and had under his command cc: tam units of the Italian Turinese Divi-
sion. Gccupation and Chetnik troops burned down and devadtated entire areas
and killed masses of eivilians.
During the war and occupatian, Minajioeic and nis commanders and their
Chetnik una participated in a great many actions against Partisan Detach-
ments and the National Liberation Army, cur.eticces independently and sometimes
with the enemy and quisling armed units, each as the Ustashi, Ljotic's men,
Nedic 's ',1erblan State Guard, tne White Guard, and others, especially in east-
ern and western 'Bosnia, Montenegro, the Sandzak, Hercegovina, Dalmatia, Slo-
venia, and Serbia,
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Mihajlovic personally and through his commanders maintained connections
with various quislings, His commanders made agreements and kept in close con-
tact with Italians in Montenegro and Dalmatia, and with Ustashi in Bosnia-Herce-
govina. After the Italian capitulation, Chetnik units all over the country
placed themselves under German protection, started to cooperate openly with
them, and received from them orders, arms, ammunition, and other equipment.
In the winter of 1942, Mihajlovic established contact with reactionary elements
In Croatia, such as Macek's agents, and others, and kept the connections alive
until the end of the war. A united front against the National Liberation move-
ment was the aim. He established contact and sent letters in March 1945 to
Archbishop Stepinac and Ante Pavelic, the organizer of the massacre of the Serb-
ian and Croatian people.
Mihajlovic and his Chetnik commanders conducted purges of Partisans through
mass killings, massacres, and tortures of sympathizers, followers, co-workers
and families of members of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detach-
ments, and burned, destroyed, and looted their property Chetniks shot to death
about 500 captured Partisans and their followers in Bra jici in November 1941;
on the night of 13-14 November 1941, Mihajlovic ordered handed over to the
Serbian State Guard in Slovac about 365 captured Partisans, although he knew
they would be delivered to the Germans; the Germans actually killed about 270
of them and sent the rest to a concentration camp. Mihajlovic's commander
Ajdacic stabbed to death 13 Partisan sympathizers near Kosjeric. Among them
were two teachera who were raped before being tortured with a red-hot iron and
killed Chetniks killed about 30 Partisans near Rayne Gore on 4 November 1941e
The Chetniks and Germans killed 80 members of the National Liberation movement
in Cacak in December 1941. A mixed German-Chetnik court in a single trial sen-
tenced 12 Partisan followers to death in Pozega Srez in December 1941. In De-
cember 1941 and January 1942, Chetniks stabbed to death over 2,000 Moslem men,
women, and children in the Foca, Gorazde, and Cajnice areas.
In December 1941 and during 1942, Mihallovic's Chetniks arrested and de-
livered to the Germans thousands of Partisan followers from various sections of
Serbia, whom the Germans murdered in the Banjica, Nis, Uzice, Caulk., and other
concentration camps, The Chetniks themselves killed thousands of Partisan fol-
lowers, looted many villages, clubred thoesande of people, and raped a large
number of women and girls from Partisan families. In June 1942, the Chetniks
set fire to ahospttal containing ten seriously wounded Partisans in the Cacak
area, In June 1942, a detachment of Mihajlovic's Chetniks took 25 Partisan fol-
lowers from a jail in Niksic and, aided by the Italians, shot them, Chetniks
butchered about 2,500 Moslems and burned down villages in the Jahorina and
Ustikolina areas, In September 19h2, Chetniks killed about 900 Croatians,
skinned several Catholic priests alive, and burned 17 villages in the Makarska
area. In October 1942 in joint action with the Italians, Chetniks killed
about 2,500 Moslems and Croatians and burned a large number of vialages in the
Prozor area. Chetniks and Italians killed 109 Croatian Partisan sympathizers
in Gate, Miklice, and Cislo in Dalmatia In the autumn of 1942 when the Chet-
nika attaceed Prozor, they butchered about 1.00 Moslems. In December 1942,
Chetniks killed 160 peasants in Brajnica (eastern Bosnia) and nearby villages,
and burned Brajaica and seveial other villages
In January 1943, Chetniks killed 400 men and 1,000 Moslem women children
and completely burned 33 villages in Bjelopolje Srez. In February 1943, Chet-
niks, butchered 1,200 men and 1,000 men, women, and children, looted and
burned about 2,000 houses in the Pljevlja, Cajnice,.and Foca areas From July
1942 to March 1943, Chetnike sentenced to aeatn and killed about 1,000 Parti-
sans and peasants in Montenegro, because they participated in the National Lib-
eration movement in Montenegro. in mid.Ouly 1743, Chetniks discovered in Cikota
el wounded members of the First ?roletarian Division, and handed them over to
the Germans, who killed them In July 1943, the Chetniks discovered 120 wounded
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members of (lie: First and Second Proletarlan Brigade in Bisena rear Birac and
betrayed them to tre Germans, who killed them, In December 1943, Chetniks
butchered 137 captured Partisans near Bosansko Grabovo, In December 1943,
Chetniks butchered 72 persons in Tranici Near?Bnigrada, including a 2.year-old
chlld and a 3, month. old imfant.
In May 1944, Crietniks discovered a Partisan hospital in jastrebac and
killed 24 wounded patients and four nurser? In May 1944, Chetniks discovered
a Partisan nnspital in Semberia and Pilted about 300 wounded. Chetniks killed
and massacred smaller groups nf up t:, persons in various areas, They mis-
treated and beat tens of thousand. nf n' eons. Mihajlovic'S commanders pro-
vided the occupaticn and quislings witn aacs of followers of the National
Liberation movement, on the heals of wh:cri people were arrested and killed.
The ficlgrade Cretnik oraanization conl:eratnd closely with Nedic's Special Police
in exterminating Partisan fcl.lowers on Belgrade The above-mentioned crimes
are only a small part cf the erime committed by the '':etrilks during the Na-
tional Liberation War on tho c-rdnro ir:,tructions ro!.f
The accused oommanders alrin partitip,Jted in the following crimes, Radic
organized and directed attacks nn Fartiaan units and hospitals, on one occasion
he killed 6(7, leaders of the National Liberation movement in Cemernica. He made
an agreement with i'stashi Gone-al Broznva: and the German command in Banja
Luka for joint action against, Partisans As the commander of all Chetnik units
in western Ldsnia, he and ttc Carman!: and Ustas',a conducted attacks against the
National larati,)n Army and Parttsan detachments. Vranjesevic, chief of staff
for nadir. and other Chetnik commander, organized and conducted attacks with
the Germans und Italians against Pa:tisans, participated in the Fourth and Fifth
Enemy Offensives, and or the oriels of Mihailovin organized the Black Threes
(Crne Trojke and flying nrtgade,; to hunt tr.v..n and liquidate Partisans and
their sympathizers After the liberation of a part of Yugoslavia, on Mihaj-
lovic's order, Radic organized the ai.tin, of Partisan couriers and soldiers of
the Yugoslav Army Glisic organized and oonducted many attacks on Partisan
units, and participated on tae urganizat:on. preparation, and battles of the
Third Enemy Offensive.
Ta wis proved reyonu dcatz.t ttta Voi
who were Mitanlovin's political rllacer
the traitorous iayar. Ga-re a:vement on
organized star chamber court, and, with
patt tcts, denounced ant. Fh.,ortts
izationo and reql.isitions for Chetailca,
spread fale and ?raitorc,us ndc.paganda f
, Topalovic, Zujovic, and Vilovic,
atorn add ,_losest advisers, directed
d-,rs of the government-in-exile. They
nne of Ravna Gora organizations,
tcr enemy, conducted forcible mobil-
celped Mrhajlovic in every way, and
or Moballovic
The trIal pnovf.d snot S!atcdan :!cvnnovir and other members and co-
4orkers of the ;!overnment-In-exile 'onstnntly ant stubbornly carried out the
policy mf reining the orupation and sr arc', 1.t.e. National Liberation move-
ment For tnis par -ort the' orders, ttey provided Mthaj).ovic with con-
rtart moral, noittical, and financial tr., they represented him as the leader
of the resistance an nelpet Is ln the r.truagJe against the National Libera-
tlon Army ty nim arrm;, ammonotidn, and nrher war equipment, they deco-
rated hos toranders: .snr; fhe malr;tnirti.d Tonne:finns with Nedic and
atnar quislinj,n in tte ::nuntry for nwriae of eitablishing a united front
taetun.-,t the Nat on-tI liberation movement, incited fraT,r1t:.icial war among t;tie?
Mthr, courms,,and en_
cvivagCd ChethC,-,5 qntslinrtn, te commii .-:-.(r*s and terrorism
it war prr:ofel tturt ;on,., Dinir, laneic, and :ovanovtc, who were memberu of
. , mrt.-1 military and police
I oaders, oneniy ti-to .,e ..;tte to suit the enemy's
nor-d and trc- Open mai as a rd nr t .7i,:tnpo; terrorized and
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arrested sympatnizere and members of the National Liberateon movement and mem-
bers of their families; took hostages and delivered them to the Germans, who
killed them at Cacak, Uzice, Valjevo, Sabac, and elsewhere; committed independ-
ently and in cooperation with the Germans Mass massacres of people as at Kragu-
jevac, where 7,000 were killed, at Kralaevo, and elsewhere; collaborated with
the Germans in deporting tens of thousands of people to concentration camps,
where they were tortured and killed, as at Saralee, Nis, Jajinci, and elsewhere;
helped the occupation deport the populace to forced and slave labor in Germany;
closely cooperated with and helped the sceupation loot ?the people's and state
property; maintained transportation for the enemy s purposes; organized various
military organizations, such as the Sereian State Guard and Serbian Volunteer
Corps to help the occupation against tee National Liberation Army and the Parti
san Detachments, collaborated and helped Mikaalavec and lets Chetniks, conducted
Nazi propaganda and introduced Faeciem into every area of public life; and were
the executors and conduetore of the pendering policy of the Fascist invaders
of Yugoslavia.
Lazar Markevie and Kosta Eli:maned: partelpated in a conference organized
by the Geetapo in Belgrade in 1941 and signed tee Appeal to the Serbian People,
which asked the Serbdan. people to to tat occupatien and destroy any-
one who tried to reeist the ecedpatiee, and Inched crimes against the people
whe had started to fight agalt-7.; trie eceepation. Markovic and Kumanudi parti-
cipated in another eonference organized by the Gestapo, proposed Nedic as the
president of the Serbian goeernmene, and eupported his quisling government
politically Markovic encouraged hatred beteean Serbians and Croatians in vari-
ous pamphlets, and made airrangemento ece Mieejlovic and his Chetniks to enter
Belgrade as its liberators fcllwing the German retreat. After the liberation,
he continued his work against the peaple by spreading falsehoods about the
people's authority, and demanded demobilleation of tne army and protection for
traiters who had fled abroad, with zbe? aim of '.nclermining the people's authority
and Yugoslavia's defensive capabilitiee,
The peced'ie'is court sentenced to death II nrfepectried7 of the above-named
traitors anu criminals The oteere were eenienced to 1.6 months to 20 years at
hard labor. Tneee sentences aere apprevad by tne people
TRIAL OF MILE HUDAK AND MEMBY.F'& OF TRE USTAEHI GOVERNMENT
The trial of a group of Useaeh: 'Lrlelinale with Mile Radak at their head
took place before the Military of Yugeelav Second Army in Zagreb on
6 June 19)45. The accesed were funztieeer.e,, weo held high offices in the Inde-
pendent State of Croatia, membere of the Mstanhe government, and close co-
workers of Ustaohi creminal Ante Paeel;.; it follows ? Mile Radek, Pavelie's as-?
oistant chief, diplomatic .representative en Germareya and Minieter of Education;
Nikola Mende:, president 'of the Usraent gavernmeet, Jura', Rukavina, Ustaehi
colonel; leer V'idejevic, president of rhe Ustaeee mobile star chamber court,
Makenec, head ce' a are: befiae tee ear, ;hlef of the Spiritual Education
of Usteshl Youth oraen'zation, at Mir-rer of Edrcation of the Ustashi govern-
ment; Pa','a Cankt, Mtn star of and Relda:on in tee Ueeashi government,
Ademaga Mesic, Pevelic a assieeant c`11,,!f. LavoeleN general in the former
Yugelav Army aed ;Ieutenant geneee: le tee ]ndepeedent ef Croatia; and
Bruno Needeli, onief of tee Civ;Il. Admie;stretier -rue Deleatta
.r, eere In fee serelee of Fas,...1e+
- eer, or';leen c?raanized it were connected with
and ,A71,,itQl1 iiseaehi organization, The
elenere of In:_lpercint State of Croatia
ea oloaed
to kei eoentione and transformed Croa-
entratlen :amp, ',:i1,,!rt-? were oubeeeted to
rr'.11ril war bo.tween
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Serbians and Croatians, tried to destroy the unity of the Croatian people in
their struggle against the occupation, and obstructed the unified struggle of
the Yugoslav people against the German and Italian invaders.
The accused inspired, organized, or participated in the mass massacres of
Yugoslav people throughout Croatia; namely. in Gospic, Jadovno, Slunj, Varcar
Vakuf, Bihac, Mitrovica, Slavonska Pozega, Djakovo, Kovin, Drnis, Mostar, Livno,
and many other places. Concentration camps and Ustashi police jails vete es-
tablished under their management and instructions in Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska,
Djakovo, Lepoglava, Jastrebarsko, Koprivnica, Kruscica, Rab, Pag, Vir, Molat,
Ktaljevci, Zagreb (the jails on Ksaver, Savska Cesta, and Zvonimirova ulica),
and many other places where hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children
were tortured in the most bestial ways and killed Mass deportations, looting,
burning, and destruction of the peopla and their property took place in Lika,
Banija, Kordun, Bosnia, Dalmatia, the Croatian Primorje, Gorski Kotar, and other
places.
The accused organized the forcible deportation of Yugoslav people to slave
labor in Germany They forcibly mobilized people for the Pascist army. Their
armed organizations cooperated with the enemy and Chetnik units against the Na-
tional Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments. In the battle at Kozara in
1942, not counting captured members of tne National Liberation Army and Parti-
san Detachments, the accused captured about 70,000 persons who were later shot
or starved to death in concentration camps They used all their power to es-
tablish Fascism in tIte country, issued discrimnatory laws, and put the country
at the mercy of the enemy.
In hie capacity as quartermaster general, Milic furnished supplies to the
armed forces of the independent State of Croatia, forces which served the oc-
cupation and committed mass massacres, killings, lootings, and burnings of Yugo-
slav property Under Nardeli's administration, the infamous Zablace camp near
Sibenik was established, and mass ',callings were committed in Vilice, Dubrava,
Poljaci, and Stn3
The_cclirt found tne accused guilty of treason and war crimes and sentenced
seven, /not specified;, including Budak. to death, one to life imprisonment,
and two to 20 years at hard labor
TRIAL OF ll3TAS.:C.: V.ILITAR"f LEADERS
From 13 to 19 Sept.ember 191,r:., a group of Ustadhi war criminals was
put on trial before the Military Council of the Supreme Court of Yugoslavia.
Thirty-four persons were acus, an,:luding listashi, Home Defense generals,
and high military officials who directed military staff,s and armed forces against
the National Liberation Army azi Pari2san Detao-r.ments and committed countless
bloody orimes
ACCAi5i,:i were Artur Gusto', cL,-,cel in tte f)rmer Yligoolav Army, general
of the Independent State of Croatia, di';:-,ton commander, ant Inspectcr of in
an Pavelic's S.1preme Readquart, D)uro hr:dadler general. in
the form&r ':'egetav Army, gene7al of tn- lritercient 3Titt. ff Cratia, and chief
of Pavelic'., 31rreme HeaCignarteri ?::-..Lone.1 in vie i:e-mur Yugo-
slav Army, general. cf the :ndepelden. Crsatla, commander,
and commander of 7,agreb, Tom.isinv ?:a: r tne former Yugoslav army,
general of Ic'ne Independent State cf Croatia, and chief of
staff glava:- stomera of the Mn t: of Armed Slavie.o $koliber, lieu-
tenant in tne former Yertslnv Army, general _'f? tn., Independent State
of kl:oatia, ntain: and of tre :l.e.it:on in tr.e Ministry
of the Interior, Jul Fr Frio, lieucant n the iorm(.: Yugoslav Army,
general of the independent State of Crsatia, and ridiatant commander of the
Third Muntain Group iGcrska hdrugal, Ivan Dy.pa!;evic, colonel in the former
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Yugoslav Army, general of' the independent State of Croatia, and commander of var-
lous Ustashi armed units; Vladimir Metakos, lieutenant colonel in the former Yu-
gosiam Army, general of the Independent State of Croatia, Ustashi colonel, and
commander of various Ustashi armed units; Ivan Markulj, colonel in the Yuaoslav
Army, general in the Independent State of Croatia, Ustashi colonel?andcommander
of Paveiic's armed 'units on the Eastern Front; Zvonimir Stimakovic, Iteutennnt
colonel in the former Yugoslav Army, general in the Independent State of Croatia,
anu commanner of the Fourth Fighter riuo Franjo Dzal, major in the former
fugoslav Army, meneral in the Independent,State of Croatia, and commander of
th FOUrt.r. Fighter Group; Franjo Dial, major in the former Yugoslav Army, colo-
nel of tne Independent State of Crcatma. Ustashi colonel, and ...commander of
Untashi air units on the Eastern Front; Zlatko Sintic, lieutenant colonel in
the former Yugoslav Army, colonel of th Independent State of Croatia, chief
of staff of the Ustashi Atr Force, and ad,.:utant to tne MThister of Armed Forces;
Hinko Flubl, lieutenant colonel in the former Tnaoslav Army, colonel of the In-
dependent State of Croatia, and chief of dtaff of the Ustashi Air Force Com-
mand, Vladimir Majer, lieutenant in toe fnrmer Yugoslav Army, Ustashi
lieu
tenant colonel, and commander cf various Ustashi units; Miroslav Slaher, lieu-
tenant colonel in th.ci former Yugosliiv Army, tot-mel of the Independent State
Cf Croatia, and commander of varioun Ustashi armed units; Nikola Mikec, major
in the former Yugcslav Army, lieutenant nrlonel Cf the independent State of
Croatia, and commander of various Ustashi air units; Muhamed Bromic, captain
of warship in the former Yugoslav Navy, general of the Independent State of
Croatia, and member of the Ustashi Intelligence ServIce; Bogdan Matejic, nobo.
nel in tie former Yugoslav Army, general of tne independent State of Croatia,
and commander of various Ustashi armed units iFifth Division, Second Mountain
Group, and others), Ivan Severovic, lieutenant colonel in the former Yugoslav
Army, colonel of the Independent State of Croatia, and commander of various
Ustasni armed units; Drsgutin t:iesic, lieutenant colonel in the fcrmer Yugoslav
Army, colonel of the Independent State of Croatia, and nommander of various
Ustashi armed nnits; Petar Sabljak, captain in the former Magoslav Army and
Ustashi lieutenant colonel, Anton Sub, captain in the former Yugoslav Army,
lieutenant colonel of the Independent State of Croatia, and assistant to the
Ustashi Air Force attache in Berlin; Dragutin Canino colonel in the former Yugo-
slav Army, colonel of the Independent State ef Croatia, and commander of the
Ustasni Gendarmerie Regiment, Zvonimar major in the fnrmer Yugoslav
Army and colonel of the Independent Etat, of Croatia; Mica Micic, captain of
frigate in the former Yugoslav Navy, cm-!onel -of toe Independent State of Croa-
tia, and member of the Ustashi ServiLem An an Narciela, lieutenant
colonel antbe former Yugoslav Army, gene:a; of tne Independent State of Croa-
tia, and commander of VRZ1OUS lntasti anrisi units, Frrinjo colonel in
former Yugc.i.la- Army, general of Inzenendnt State of Croatia, and
commsnuer of vario:s Ustashi armed mroct. Grnnric, captain an the
foilner Yugoslav Army and 11.,uti,nant Inderendent State of Croatia;
'van Karelec, anan: in the ror:i-7?Iav Army. Fnjolf ma'--r in the
former Yugoslav Army and colorl of Croatia; RoTuain
Manou, 12eutnant in iic former Inmmi,lav A: my and genera: of' tne In.
dependent Stat. 7: Crc.atla, SosiL; in the former Yugc-
slay Army, gen-ma: of Cnoatia. anm commander of vari-
ous Us taco: armed units, and Zvonim:r I.jac, mno-m ,n rme i'nrmer dugnsluv Army
nng laeotenant ol
The accused iomm,ttei trenc,m a(11 quielnng
army As offnrm:o of the former On,z,entv la--c, aiteo tom, dinintegration
of tne stnte, aid ad to. enemy in amg ning, of 1,7%,-, country, and
recruited citizens for home Defense and fmitannc Ttm,,y obeyed the enemy's
orders. followed directives of commanded Home Defense
and Usrasbi units in the war agairrm Nt;"2 a;.-zin!-,:t the National
Liberation Army commanders of 'inme unito, MO6t of them
independently, or in conjunction w:rh Gormn, ChetnaP. units,
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contrary to international law ark, all the rules of war, committed terrible
crimes against the people of Yugoslavia by killing civilians and wounded mem-
bers of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments. They burned
and looted villages and titles, deported the populace to concentration camps
and to forced labor in Germany, and exterminated Serbians and Croatian patriots.
Massacres,-burning, and looting took place under their command in Kozara, Lika,
Topusko, Slunj, Petrova Gora, Prijedor, Bosanski Novi, Kostajnica, Psunj, Papuk,
Han Pijesak, Vlasenica, Pokuplje, Foca, Daruvar, Bjelovar, Mostar, Glina, Banja
Luka, Krizevci, and other places.
Markulj, Dzal, and Mikec participated in the battles on the Eastern Front,
where Markulj's unit especially looted and terrorized the civilian population
behind the Poltava-Khar'kov-Stalino front line
After 7 days, the court sentenced seven to death, and sentenced five to
20 years, six to 15 years, two to 5 years, and three to 3 ;'ears at hard labor.
One of the accused was found not guilty .44ames of individuals sentenced were
not specefiedj
TRIAL OF ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE UTASHI GOVERNMENT
A third group of Ustashi criminals was put on trial before the Supreme
Court of Croata in Zagreb from 29 May to 4 June 1947. With Kvaternik aL their
bead, they represented Pavelic's most intimate collaborators and advisers.
The accused were Slavko Kvaternik, Minister of Home Defense, and commander
of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia; Mehmed Alajbegovic,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia; Osman Kuleno-
vic, vice-president of the government and envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs of the Independent State of Croatia; Ivan Percevic, chief of Pavelic's
war office; and Sigfried Kase, envoy and minister plenipotentiary of Germany
in Croatia
Kvaternik worked with Pavelic on strengthening and developing the terroris-
tic Ustashi organization long before the war He was in close contact with the
German intelligence service from the moment that Hitler came to power in Ger-
many. Immediately before the capitulation of Yugoslavia, sometime, after
27 March 1941, he broadened his activity to weaken resistance for the purpose
of handing over the country to tne enemy Following the orders of German
agents and spies, such as Hitler's special. agent Doctor Wesermann, Schuster,
and others, KvaternIk held several .fer.ancec in Zagreb to further this pur-
pose. In additicn to German agents and Ustaahi such Cr Budak and others, pc.o-
ple in whom Mac-k had confidence, aucn as Dr Lamer, Fri:civic, Kosak, and others,
attended tale eonferenees.
An Pavelic's main agent and folicweng German directives, Kvaternik pro-
claimed the Independent State of Creatia on 10 April. 19141, before Yugoslavia
capitulated This was done in agreement with Mack who appealed to his fol-
lowers to coeperate with the Untashi government In the name of the Ustashi
Government, Kvaternik participated in making the Rome Agreement which handed
over to Italy meet of Dalmatia Incl)iding Boka Kotorska, part of the Croatian
Primorje, and most of tne Dalmatian islands He was Pavelar's right-hand man
in issuing and -arrying out crimina2 measura and bloody and traitorous acts
prevalent in the. 'i:ndependent State of Crotia He participated in issuing and
carrying out decrees which led to die organization of poliie, military, and
paramllitary armed forces; and military, war, and star-chamber rourts, which
were intended to suppress any resistance He participatd in issuing and exe-
cuting orders enacting a system of state banditry in which the above organiza-
tions committed countle,ss war crimes, arti the mass arreqt of Jews, gypsies,
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Serbians, and Croatian patriots He took part in organizing concentration
camps all over Croatia in which arrested persons and captured Partisans were
bestially tortured and killed He participated in issuing orders to deport
tens of thousands of people from concentration camps or from their homes to
forced and slave labor in Germany. He instigated and issued orders for count-
less arrests, tortures, murders, burning and devastation of entire areas, re-
taliatory actions, and purges in Kordun, Banija, Bosanska Krajina, Like, and
other places.
Next to Pavelic, he was the foremost leader of military actions and oper-
ations against the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments. He par-
ticipated in the preparation of plans for the enemy's offensives agains'.; the
National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments, He put at the disposal of
the enemy Ustashi, Home-Defense, and Gendarmerie troops, and sent the Croatian
Legion to the Eastern Front. Kvaternik made an agreement with the Germans to
deport 170,000 Slovenians from Slovenia to Croatia, and the same number of Serb-
ians from Croatia to Serbia, which he partia7ly completed Ae assumed the
obligation that Croatia would bear all the expenses of the German occupation
army. He allowed Germans and Italians to exploit Croatia's bauxite, iron ores,
petroleum, and the like In pursuing the total subjugation of the Independent
State of Croatia to the Fascist invaders, ktc met with Hitior and Mdissolinl,
worked on introducing Fascist methods into all branches of social life, and
put at the disposal of the enemy armed forces, the entire state machinery, trans-
portation, and the national economy
The other accused UsVhshi offizialo, being tne highest state executives in
the Independent State of Croatia and the closest co.workers and advisers of
Pavellc and his government, were direct participants in the planning and exe-
cution of the traitorous activity and war crimes mentioned
An Hitler's representative in Croatia during the occupation, Kase suggested,
initiated, and participated in inshing the measures and committing the war
crimes outlined above Through the government of the Independent State of
Croatia, he robbed tne Crcatian people, transformed the country into a Fascist
land, looted national property, and initiated and particilated in the enemy's
aiffensiveF against. the National Liberation Army und Partisan Detachments at
Kozara and elsewhere He ina),guratet agieements between strishi and Chetniks
and subjugated toe Croatian people to German imperialist plans
The court sentenced all the atc.aced to death
TRIAL OF ZR7O LISA:-: AND AL'.):Z.T.TE STEPINAC
In their traitorous work, Pavhlic 4uisllng gtornmert and Ustashi enjoyed
the full support of 'augreb's Archhthop Stepinac and u number of Catho-
lit priests Tte support given tt :he Uhrasni government by Stepinac made the
accomplishment of many eramen ourt at'tr the liberation, Stepinac
continued 11 work against the people 1:y collahoratong witn the Uctasn.l. Stepi-
nac was therefore pit on trral tfo!e r,- ''',upreme Couit of Croatia in Zagreb
from 9 Sepr,mner to 11 Oototr,r
Also brought to or U- .-ere the iolieing Erac. Laeak, one of Pavolic's
Mifl and one vUntuca, ....In whom Stepluac
was in :ontact after the liberett,:h, tasi, colonel, tir,?ttor of public order
and ne,_urity, and orate sc.cretary an to M:nistry of tire Interior of the Inde-
pr,ede,nt stat-.e of c,.0atia; :van Salic, set:etary to Ardhbisnop Steptnac; Josip
Slm,oki., teacher of religion, bjaro pi at and UStasni captain; Pavle
Gulan, veterinarian, Josip Crrko.ric, draftsman; Nodesto VartIncic, head of the
Frantaccan Province in Zagredt; Kr ear Sup...rior of the Franciscan
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Monastery in Zagreb; Mamerto Margetic, 0ranjo?Tiburceje Pavlek, Mirko-Krivin
Kolednjak, Josip-Valerije Vidovic, Stj,pan-Plo Svasta, Ivan-Leopold Ivanhovic,
and Josip-Mladen Majnovic,
Eric Lisak was accused of many serious crimes As director of public
order and security of the Ministry of Interior of the Independent State of Croa-
tia from May to August 1941, he organized the first police force in Karlovac
Srez and elsewtere, which started to persecute the populace, especially Serbians
and Jews_
As Pavelic's personal adjutant from August 1941 to August 1942, Lisak was
his closest assistant and one of the organizers of the persecution of thousands
of Croatians, Serbians, Jews, peasants, blue-collar workers, and intelligentsia.
As second assistant to General Sabljak, and inspector general of the armed
forces of the independent State of Croatia, Lisak organized the Ustashi Army be-
tween August 1942 and October 3943 This army committed mass murders, deporta-
tions to concentration camps, burning, and looting.
As chief of pollee of the Prigerje area from October 1943 to September 1944,
he was in charge ef all arrests made by the police; he ale? proposed deporta-
tions to concentration camps and tne killing of citizens, and administered the
intelligence 6ervice in the area. Thus, ne eelped Ustashi Majoc Ivanovic hang
6o civilians in Gornja Stubica on 23 January 1_944
From September 1944.uneil tze liberation, as d]recter of the Main Direc-
torate of Public Order and Security of the Independent State of Croatia, Lisak
directed tbe Intelligence Service of the Independent State of Croatia, organized
and Ordered individual and mass arrests, deportations to coocentration camps,
and killings He was the supervisor and administrator of all concentration
camps in Crentaa, in which a large number of Croatians, Serbians, and Jews were
bestially tortured and murdered
Lisak eas also responsible for the following crimes He sent a circular
to all regional poi:ice authorities and dlher police units on 28 December 1944,
in which te ordered them to adeere strictly it diaectives en retaliatory meas-
ures against citizens and on cooperation with malitary and other armed forces
in executing sum n measures Conseeeene3y, many retaliatory murders were com-
mitted througnout ereiaeia cur rig perlod From 7 August 1944 until the
liberation, he ordered 413 C;t12.n:, ancec or chot to death in retaliation at
Precec, Ostrne, and Jatlanac neae ZaTerealc, Neva Grad ha, Sveta :van Zelina,
Maksimir near 'eagreh, and oteer pleee Re ordered many persons deported to
Lepoglava and other chncentratien camps bitween August 1944 and January 1945,
none of wnom returned ulive During, the sane period, masses of innocent vic-
tims were killed in Jasenevac, 9radieka, Lepeglava, and other concentration
camps admenistered by r,1171 Fc,r 700 to 300 Serbians weee killed on
one occasion at Minks and .7ablana,.., A larEa numuer of inmates of jasenovac
carq, v.-r(? Yilld tF:tween Oct-her ianuary 1945; tney were brought com-
pletely naked to the Sava river awl or bludgeoned to death
In April 1..147. be tore rr retrit, 77,,,,it all tri- inmates of iepoelava camp were
killed, while RiMt-,SL all ?he in71 In camp .4,:re killed at the same
time by
am May to Aug,.:Fit 1514 after -:-,:apIng from tee country, Lisak worked in
Austrie ant nor ciitn,7, ereanization ef terrorist ace
tivielee an fra,.-La He c,:Gan11,..(; arme,-; reTract cc g,r,)up,-; In St ,Iertraut and
cempe in Or.; toner. H, lntnded to smuggle these
greens witer to tak.:.tice n?mc, of Crusaders (Krizari)
and (7.1)sb'r T11.! renateletation ard ,71untry and continue
looting, kileeng, and otner
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Tc fulfill these plans, Lisak entered yugoslavia on Pavelic'e ceder, with
the lairpose of taking over the leadership of these terrorist groups and organiz-
ing unified tesrorist activity. He entered Yugoslavia with forged documents,
came to Zagreb in the middleecf September 1945, and established contact with
Archbishop Stepinac through Pavelic's relative, Anca Pcrges, and Macek's confi-
dential agents H.e met Alojzije Stepinac and his secretary, Ivan Salic, in-
formed them about the plans of?Ustashi criminals abroad, and asked and received
information on the situation in the country so he could intensify terrorist
activity and establish strong connections abroad, He met Giuseppe Masucci, sec-
retary to Marcone, the papal delegate in Croatia, and received data on the coun-
try, which he intended to utilize in carrying out the planned crimes,
. It was proved that Archbishop Stepinac visited Kvaternlk on 12 April 1941
and offered congratulations on the proclamation of the Independent State of
Croatia, while tee battle with tee German and Italaan invaders was still 411 oro
res. Stepinac aiso paid an official visit to .Pavelic on 16 April 1941 In.
-rJ,c first days of the oceupation, ne arranged a dinner for Useashi emigrea and
posed for photograpns witn etem ?
. On 2e April 19.1, Stepinac issued an official circular urging the priests
of the ZaKreh Archbishopric and the devout to ceoperate with the Independent
State of Croatia On 2C June 1941, after the Bishops Conferences decided to
cooperate with astasei authorities, Stepnac led the episcopate to an audience
with Pavelic, addressed Favelic as :if of the Independent State of Croatia,
and promised sinnere and loyal ccoperation Follewing Stepinac's appeal hun-
dreds of priests started cooperating actively witn?tne enemy, resulting in trea-
sonous and criminal activity Some priests even joined the enemy's intelligence
service By his stand, Stepinnc encouraged tne priests, who were Ustashi of ?
long standing, to commit treason, disarm tne Yugoslav army, and organize Ustashi
governments, commissions, caeps, fertificat'lens, and the like. .
As president of the 2eshop 5 Conferences administering nil organizations
of the Catholic Action and having cemnete control of the entire Catholic press,
Stepinac had these organizations and tee Cetholic press eelp the occupation,
Pavelic, and the Inanpendent Sat e of Cfoatia ? The press, completely Ustashi
and Fascist in spirit, biding beeind a clerical rind religious facade, spread
falaehoods against tne National Liberatinn mevement, and incited religious, na-
tional, and racial hatred for tbe benefte if tne cecdp3tten end against the Na-
tional Laheratien movement Ali organizations belonging to the Catholic Action,
including the Grand Crusading Bretterbeed 17e2ike krizarnke bratstve), Grand
Crusading Slsterhc,c,r! iVeliko krizarske sestarstvo),?and dome Education (Domagoj)
cooperated with tne betanhi and beame tne tore and pillars of the Ustashi move-
ment.
Stepinne utilized end transformed ar,lit,.onni rellivoun feetivals into
political manifestations fo: Pavellc ana als Utas'. bandits. He used his ser-
mons,. as at Marija Bistrica in 1942 and 1944, to -support the Ustashi and glorify'
tne Independent etate of Croatia and Pavelic Frem 1941 until 1-"e liberation,
he celebrated Solemn Masses en 10 April every year o commemorate the establish-
ment of tla&. Independent State of Cr-cat:La He transformed she hely day of
St Anthany into a pelitical manifeetere.on for Pa.:elle by ordering all subordia--
nate priests te serve selemn masses en tnet day for Pavelic 5,rhose name day it
waa7
At the opening of the Crcateae k,semnly en 24 Penvaary 1942, Stepinac and
Zagreb ans prit and monks, celebrated a aelemn Mess, welcoming Pavelic
and members of rbe asseebly et tlet entrence ter St Mark's' church and greeting
Pavelie wit. a speect wnich was cenried hy ace weea, aneasni and Cateolic press.
Stepinae ei.pressed bie aolidarity eitn the nerman and Italian eccupation in
every possible way he parto:apating in numerous cfficial events, relebrations,
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and receptions arranged by representatives of German and Italian occupation
authorities in Zagreb, such as the celebration of the Fascist march on Rome,
and the like.
Stepinac was the head of a council of three which conducted the forcible
conversion cf Orthodox Serbians to Catholicism and te blessed these conversions
Mass murders were committed by Ustashi and Ustashi priests in the process of
carrying out such forcible convereions,
At the beginning of 1942, the Vatican appcinted Stepinac Military Vicar
of Pavelic 's Ustashi and Home Defense He thus became the highest military
priest in Pavelic's army, with supervislen over all military priests, who
were encouraging Ustaeht and Home Defense units to commit crimes. Sometimes
they themselves committed crimes and conducted propaganda for the Ustashi. At
the beginning of .1944, Stepinac approved the publication of a prayerbook en-
titled Hrvtske_vorrik (Croatian Soiderl, which glorified the notorious
Ustashi crimana)s, and etad chat aerviee to tte occupation and loyalty to
Pavelic were releglous duties
In his Cerietmae meesage of December 1944, Stepinac asked Croatian workers
to go to work in Germany because it was tneir religious and patriotic duty to
do so When help was collected for the Uta ehi Legion on the Eastern Front,
Stepina: contributed eigarettea, rosariee, religioue medals, and other things
to raree the morale of Ustast: bandits who were f:gtting againet the USSR.
In 1944 and 1945, Stepinac establishee close ccnnections with Pavelic and
Mack, who were in contact with traitors, euen as Mehr.jlovic, Rupnik, and Roz-
man, Stepina: held negotiations wite Fevelic and Mack ceitablean a unified
front: and requested armed intervention from abroad and occupation of the coun-
try by foreign imperlalests Tr e aim was to prolong the occupatton and thereby
save tbe .ndependent State of Creatre, er Taintath :ts auttority an some form
and prevent tre victory of the peopie
In the second nalf ef Mare '2945, Ustesti gsvernment was almost
finished, he orgenized tne Bisneee Cehfeeenee :;nCT) :"Niu,?St. 3f the preeldent of
the government and by order of Fav,-11c Ttle wee done to get the Catholic
bishops to .ave tee Ustasea war :rizenele ..-.ensequently, a message was issued
by the hiseops which defended tee Ueteeni end their cramee
Before the eapituletion of tne :eieeeeienr Si of Creetia, Stepinac se-?
creted in the Areebionop's palace in 7.agreb tee ar,1,1!i, of the Ministry of
Foreign Affaire and of Fevelic's chree.el:ey, and recerdenge of Pavelic 's
speeceo deliveree during his elay in IreOo ene Croatia In tryping to save
the Ustashi creation, tee Independent Beate of Croatia, Stepine: hele talks
wIt h Pavelic'n eelegate,:, erisite.3 Macek In wlth ieetashi Colonel Moskov,
and disc eesee ways and meane ef savtne 11
After tee lOn,r_olen, Stepinae nystemer:eally piepageted tee hope that the
old regime wou,d retern sacn and fu2.--c,d sea:1nel: tne peeple's author-
ities He ra:led against tne cu tt Of 't,t:-M? ac d other war criminals,
preclaaming these senteecee te be perbeo,rtien cnureh, religeon, and
rete, en well rie extermthetier ::reatren peeple Ireplred by the work,
stand, at ,..tatemento of the arceblehep, 17viny '.ecesh: pnieets, priests who
Ustashl sympathizers, and ether enee:s tfe peeele gathered erd organized
Ustasni :vnc te.d froe the people e eetheriolee,, irepeganelzed ationg them, and
urged tneM tn crIMe, eti:b ae V.:Hine et Yegoelav citizene and loot.
ing of tneir peopeety
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In the second half of September 19145, Stepinac received Eric Lisak in the
archbishop's palace, although he knew that Lisak had returned to Yugoslavia to
commit terrorism. He also received two letters from Ante Moskov, Ustashi colo-
nel and commander of Pavelic's personal guard, who was sent to Yugoslavia for
the dam reason. Stepinac approved and covered up the terrorist activity of
his secretary, Ivan Salic, and priest Josip Simecak, He encouraged them to con-
tinue their activity against the people, so that they, together with Pavle
Gulin, and Josip Cinkovic became a central leadership for various terrorist
groups:
Salic, who bad introduced Lisa): to Stepinac, later acted as go between for
Stepinac, Lisak? and Mcskov. Salic kept Lisak n:dden, provided him with in-
formation on the situation in Yugoslavia, provided Ustashi Major Medvidovic
with material help, cooperated witn Gulin in organizing Ustashi.Crusader groups,
and blessed flags for Ustashl Crusader groups
With the exception of Stjepan Svast, Ivan-Leopold ivankovic, and Josip-
Mladen Majnaric, the other defendants recruited people's enemies for Ustashi-
Crusader groups, provided them with arms, collected various materials for
them, distributed pamphlets against the state, conducted propaganda for the
Ustashi, provided Ustashi criminals with forged documents to assure them free-
dom of movement, provided contact between individual Ustashi, helped organize
Ustashi-Crusader groups, helped them return from abroad to Yugoslavia or to ?
leave Yugoslavia, and secreted gold and other valuables seized by Ustashi when
they killed citizens
After exhaustive hearings, a great deal of evidence, and confessions made
by almost all the accused, the court found them guilty of the highest treason,
worst war crimes, and other criminal acts against the people and the state.
Two were sentenced to death, 11. were sentenced to 6 months to 16 years at hard
labor, and three were acquitted l&iames not specifiedj
During the trial, numerous telegrams and letters arrived from individuals
and from organizations from all sections of the country and from all classes of
the people, which lauded the trial Toe population accepted the court's sen-
tence witb satisfaction.
TRIAL OF LEO RUTNIK AUD OTHERS
The role of the Slovenian quis2ings was the same as that of quislings in
parts of octupied Yugoslavia, namely, to keep the people in submission to
the occupation and make it easier for the o7cupatlon to. fulfill its plane for
looting and exterminating tbe people This role was taken over in Slovenia by
Leo Rupnik and other Slovenian reactionaries 7heEe quislings were put on trial
before the Military Court of the Fourih Arm:: frLer. 2). Lc 12 August 1946. Masses
of people attended the trial
Ac::t,,,ed were Leo Rupnik, clivisicsn :7.e,peral in tne former. Yugoslav Army,
chief of staff of a group cfP armies in toe Ar cl war 'If 19h1, and president of
the Provincial Administration in 1,;nljana, Erwin hcesenr, high police com-
mander and SS leadar; Gregor R:,7mac, 13srop if L;lubijaha Minn Krek, minister
in preas. Yugoslavia and minister ,?.,7v,,rnment in e),11.., Milk? Vizja%,
colonel in nos fr,rmr Yugpslav Arty, and 1,0vric hacin. pollce administrator
fore and during tne occupation iv
In April 1,;h1, upnik preparei a wItt.'n plar for toe cd?:Lanization of the
Ustashi army and eroded it to iletusni Cui wOC 1 Luitr: After the capitulation,
ha collabc)rate6 closely witn war crcicnri.o in St,:tcenia, Including Italian gen-.
erals Robotic and Orlando, and hign commissioner ,-..;rac1r,I11, as well as with the
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Italian Intelligence Service. After he was appointed chief of the Ljubljana
region, he organized toe state to suit tae occupation,. and prepared and proposed
to Robotti a plan for the liquidation of Partisan units. He proposed which of
the Yugoslav interned officers were to be released as Fascist sympathizers and
which of them were to be kept in concentration camps as .enemies of the occupa-
tion.. After the capitulation of Italy, he was appointed chief of the Provincial
Administration in Ljubljana by the Germans. He reorganized the civil adminis-
tration and police, and enforced the oc,;upation's orders by terrorism. Be
organized the intelligence service which collaborated with and sent information
to the Gestapo and Hacin's police Througb the press, lectures, meetings, and
the like, he spread Nazi propaganda.. He organized the police administration
which used terrorist methods in cooperation with the Gestapo and killed thou-
sands of Slovenian patriots.
Be helped the occupation, particularly Roesener and Racin, in forcible
deportations, mass killings, tortures, death sentences in concentration camps
and forced labor, and confiscation cf property il meebers or sympathizers of
the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments He organized into a
new armed force the remnants oC the White Guards and Blue Gearin eelch feopht
against the National Liberation Army and Partisan Deteehnents.. He and Roeeener
organized the Slovenian Home Defense, which tiwore allegiance to Hitler, fought
against the Nationni Liberatioe Army and Partisan Detachments, and eoMeitted
many murders and other crimes against tee antl-Faeciets he provided eaterial
help to Chetnik units under the command of l'anez Martin-Crtomir He inspired
and supported propaganda against the NatienaL Liberation movement. He con-
ducted a robbery policy first for the Ttalians and later for the German occu-
pation After the German capitulation and his escape, he worked abroad to
organize traitorous elements, and units called Commands of Parts of tee Yugo-
slav Army from remnants of the .desreyed forces of Ljotic, Ned1t, and the Slo-
venian Home Defense to support armed intervention against Yugoslavia, for which
he also prepared a plan
Roestner was instigator, organize-, and issuer of orders for mass murders,
death sentences, mass destruction, tortures, and forced deportations to con-.
centration camps About 20,000 people 1.ere fercibly deported to Serbia and
about 60,000 te slave labor in 'Germany Maas shootings were committed, espe-
cially in Gerenjsko and Stejerska, weere the number killed reached thousands.
To exterminate ehe Sieerenian people, Reesener oreexed and executed mass arrests.
Over 12,000 people were arrested in tre Reeenje area; some were killed and the .
rest deported to concentration campa or needed eeer the:Gestapo. He ordered
tee destruction and demoiltion ef seteleeeets, soca en Fadovna, jamnik, Mokra,
Sozd near Golnik, Drazeeee, Gorn.. Ncr tni Vrh, Kostanj, Grad-
isce, Jastretac, and Ka]ise Gradie, F6C1"10, Rxesenik, Seveden, and other
villages wire Laxned down, al.. MA.I.e:3 wer ann other inhabitants
deported ne erdered nel!e:tive eenieneehte, eee ferelbly mobilized citizens ?
Ii' Oerecin jeJeoleng mtlitery eni 7A:7t1. ,1,71.ur6 members of the
Natioeel Lee-ration Army end P rels'ee Detecbmc:ntz an ma snot or handed over
Le the Partian ho.--;pitals to be de- -
stroyed eli.led Allied p;leite see organized the
Slovenian Home D'afc.ris 5 kizti tn(. :-,rnmitted mass
mueders
ilmic in parto:ipetea in thee ne was police
admInist:atcr eee Li to in: klilinos,
tortur, flud de.eeret:.oee re thi.:-; work under
the nceupatton in fuil
Outran Ii ,.7,10perF.Ite.1 an wtivlti??.; Poesener, and Rozman
fully uoebrtee eeeh ,oertee, Rozman went -
inte sprvan tar tne 2-tulian e,:cupetlen, end let,:e? ',:,ermuln occupation.
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As Bishop of Ljubljana, RoZman instructed priests to work against the people
and to collaborate with the occupation He eKpressed his loyalty to the oc-
cupation in a memorandum to Mussolini. In agreement with General Robotti, he
called into conference in the Bishop's pal.a.e representatives of former polit-
ical parties with the purpose of obtaining their condemnation of the National
Liberation movement. He condemned the National Liberation movement in speeches,
circulars, and pastoral letters, representing it as a movement against Christ
and religion he sent denunciatory reports to Rome which resulted in night
curfews In Ljutiljana, the interning. of former Yugoslav officers, and other
repressive near-ares Fe used the Ca:'oiltr press ton nropaaanda favoring the
occupatiomagainsz the National. Liberation msvement
He supported the strengt*.ening. and Jevelopment of it:: Anti-Communist Volun-
teer Militia, organizedIay ci eLeMents cics.rding to instructions of the
Occupation, aga:nst the Naticnal Linenatnin tnvement of the Slovenian people.
Be was in cinse rontact wfin t-oe siestan,. eellabcrated wItn Rupnilc, and partici-
pated in the swcaring in t: SInveetan %:7C..ops, stating his full
agreement with Nazi policy "Thai t7y iserne- 0ermany capitulated, ne joined the
People's Connral. ,irganIned by'.'.' Stnvenian F.nme Defense, Mihajlovic's Chet
niks, and others Like them 'Se nertIrlpated in sending telegrams to Krek and
representatives of the ? Western Allie', jesAnning te occupation of Slovenia and
intervention against. the Yugoslav ArMy
As 01115r,,,y of zne it: ured people not to resist
Vie occupation, condoctea propaganda fer.nriia MinajlOvlc and financed his
unIts, and tried to destroy to' rer cce Slovenian people in their struggle
against toe enemy. Re spread Iles abaut inn National Liberation movement and
maintained connections with collancratore in Sle?vcnia ?Natlacen, Avsenek, and
Others:, receiving reports frtm tom throsgn toe bishop and the Vatican, He
supported Razman and tie Sloverian rInaer, and the council mf the Village Guards,
which organized tne closeet col;abonati,:n witn tte enem- and established the
traitorous White ::;.rard and H()71], Defense nrIts "de appealed to the people in
radio speeches not to In the mov-,7ent against tne occupation, and advised the
collaborators tnat active col:Lazo:ration with the enemy was rignt. After the
liberation, te estahliehod contact witn imzerlalists and collaborators abroad,
conducted slanderous propaganda O: :2-'. fngezia-caa, and work-rd 'against the
state
Tne rourt senzen:ed trr,:e cc dearn and the otner three to
15 to 20 years at ria,..1 lnbcr
TRFCTOR017i': AN1, AC=J:TIES
1:h".:FATL.'17
Opposing the efier!s, tA,-7- vast majority of Yugoslavia,
a small minority af 170 nrsuet and destroy toe efforts
of tne working or ,rene tn,7. Peepie:s :Front tried
or a countdrrevc,lit,enary pal;*:::cm ;. revolutionary results of
the. National Linertl.in mover:est ar,! th,7. 00 order with the help
of toreigh Wneh tnen -nemins cad not :oirceei an an open fight
against t'ne resulr ci zne Nicninnal serond group appeared
within the l'eepin'c rtont, t7,V,at,", from '9ithin. These
attempts wr.: nn In:- atv:c, ' intelligence
services il.pen iS
imed a n11,..rrrto:- ire ealging rne Five-iear elan
and TJ:. t-rrnr.rz, espionage, nropaganda,
and Ilk, and teirnr:s, %sininicattsne 0 .banUit5 and i;r1,11torS
were organized on foceign Intelligence. service.
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Notorious war criminals, professional traitors, and spies among displaced per-
sons were recruited as couriers for espionage and terrorist groups, They were
sent into Yugoslavia to commit terrorism, espionage, and sabotage to binder
Yugoslav workers in the peaceful development of their country. Foreign intelli-
gence services and traitorous emigrants recruited criminal elements as spies
against Yugoslavia. Basic prinniples of ,international agreements were disre-
garded; some foreign intelligence services even employed former Gestapo spies.
The most reactionary clergy, especially tne Catriclic clergy, joined in this ac-
tivity against the people, using religious feelings to incite national and re-
ligious hatred and foment feeling against the people's authority and against
the various measures of mhe government.. They aemively participated in organiz-
ing espionage, terrorism, sabotage, and the like
The following were pot on it i" sucn aetivitees
TRIAL OF M7SA TBeFUNOVIC AND OTHERS
Mice Trifunovic, former leaner of the reecreenary Radical Party in prewar
Yugoslavia and Minister of King Peter es government in London, was put on trial
before the Supreme Court of Serbia an Belgrade from 2 to It January 194-7. On
trial witn him were Milutin Stefanovic, former journalist from Belgrade; Zeljko
Susie, former officer of the Yugeslav Army, Eranko novanovic, journalist from
Belgrade; Alekeeneer-Aca Tlic, former effecial in the Royal Yugoslav Embassy in
Vienna; Grgur Kostic, former journalist and owner of a perfume plant in Belgrade
after the liberatecn; Sinlsa Zdravkovie., engineer from Belgrade, and Konstantin
Stankovic, engineer from Belgrade. All of moose were spies and paid agents of
a foreign country Peat Britain17
It was proved by witnesses, public documents, and confessions of_the ac-
cused that tney provided agents of tee foreign intelligence service /Great Bri-
tain?7 into state and malitary secrets and reported falsely regarding the gen-
eral and politi.eal situation in Yugesievia Toeir reports stated that terror,
looting, viclence, religious perseeution, and naticnal oppression were preval-
ent =Yugoslavia The accused nan this vita the sole intention of persuading
the foreign country to interfere In the :nternal affairs of Yugoslavia.
Milutin Stefanevic, Llnko Sue: c, and Branko Jovanovie were sentenced to
death '1h otners were nentencte to 4 e,) years at nerd labor
FAI. OF C.F.TnM[B. NAGODA A'nr.? niTinz:RS
The following were brought to trai before eee Supreme Court of Slovenia
Crtomir Nagoda, construction engineer aee icetee of geology; Ljubo Sire, law
student; ',eon Kavcnik, professor an. toe Teenrocal Faculty of the University in
Ljnbinana; Boris Fur Ian, professor at tr.- nnieersety in Ljubljana; Zoran Briber,
professor at the Gymnasium in Mote; At: ia Vorle, vcesitlonal teacher; Metod
Kumelj, vocetional teacher in Ljubl,yinii, Favla noeevar, etired teacher; Vid
Lajovic, employee of toe Envelope Faeterry an Ljubljana: Franje Sire, planning
director of the Main Dieert,orate for the Teeeele Indnstry in Ljubljana; Elie.
abeta arilerr, academy scolptor; arm Fnene ndmaeistrater or tn.: State
Autcmobile Enterpreee of Slovenia anC1
All o:' teem veee deeply involvHi 1.2",a2:,nok:s activity They succeeded
in organizlee An espionage center in Slo%,?lia of crimunel and corrupt intel-
lectual Trey nraunieied espionane ,,ttel foreign such as
Espionage C,?..11tr 101 in Austria, tee eeteennne seevice in Switzerland, and
spa es In foreige intellanence Wire nelp, trey started organ-
izing a secret ranie. hroadeastaeg :;t'lt.;on nor they re,.ceived a code from
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Espionage Center 101 in Austria They gave imperialist states false informa-
tion and reports on the political, military, and economic situation in Yugo-
slavia, stating that terrorism, violence, religious persecution, and national
'oppression were prevalent They organized an espionage network in Slovenia,
partiularly in Kranj, Maribor, Celje, and Ribnica.. They recruited individuals
for espionage in state enterprises and other establisnments.. In Ljubljana and
BelArade, they established contact with the representatives of a foreign power
/Great Britain?!, received instructions, and gave espionage information. Dur-
ing the occupation, they maintained contact with the Gestapo and with Mihajlovic
and followed his directives in Slovenia. After the liberation, they combined
their traitorous a..:tivity t-nrougt Sir:: and Kev,7nik with that of Dragoljub
Jovanovic. /Tee below7
All the accused were found PUt lry Crtmlr Nagoaa, Ljubo Sirc, and Boris
Furlan were sentenced to death by c'rine, squad The others were sentenced to
ore to 20 years at nar.i labor
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Trio ca;-- ef Diagc3,:uh lvansivic is typical of -te attempt to destroy the
People's Front from within 1ie and En,sr Franlo Gasi ?.ere put on trial before
the Supreme Court. of Serbia friiim 3. cc "_Pitober 19);7
jovanzoilc, former univeriry prof,.ior In ilelgrea, 11+.o nad assumed the
role of oppotiticr leader of the peasant mov,em.?ir. in rrewar yd,-;onhvia, was
actually an id.,ologist for the kulak policy 'de '.iicceeded in hidlnk: his true
nature during the war so he could smegri.le tee if into tH, 'People's Front after
the war Fr notion agairns.t pc.itwa: he established. nontacL through
Engr Fzon.o ,lasL with a.certair :i7n-iLiin intelligence /;rent 5ritain7
Sovamovin instru.ition frdwr cn:e thrsuch e(ecuted-ite
instruct:7.h: wit ? (.):1 the cf ttin .:ovapnvic ortlahlzed
the Ped.snicr Dectodra:Ic 03cdk u19.n hi!ns.f and G47.1 7.1,: 3dOrc In accord-
ance forelp,n r4ymts, ne and tie hlok clipmed postwar Yucc-
s101.1 in -ihe Asembly and -h?ouiur,,,ed t,'r, -osrj-a, to hope tont
the old order resurn The ac.;ests ft2reign istellieenie service
who gave him directiveii wc.re /Si.,qCner:! 211 scold and Whtscn, the younger
Since ?Tovanoyis could not fin2 suppciri for his activity among the people,
he establish,d contact and ,:coperatich to Viatko eworn enemy of
the people', nni t ek irait,rcus ..ern17,1 Jovanovic and
his irrcup inc, i became an hgcs.iy fcn 'eciionarics whicn was meant to
develop -Into a ctronnhcld :or Yugi.r?lhvia Tovanovic
conducted Trail.ag:,ndh againnt rhs ,:p.i.rsted in 'he canaigi of the
foreifn rea.?tionary pre$s sahdcr and thT,ainst
The orimir.:. a? an crigtnal
lett r uhlished in
/7 ?
and 1,e ccpf- cf
Josar..-vi, to in, ni. of acts
hefore the ? curt hhy senidinc,h
ho.'h rne -
ThiAl t Alit .dT;TEr.
The folich..ing were put- ii- In hefi,;-e rice riluirict Court of :,lagreb from
10 to Pr) Fehroiry 1,-Y; Tomo Stincilcovi.,., icnmer deputy cd? the Croatian Peasant
Party anti cin worker V.a.%11?2 Ma..../. har3o P""cion;
Engr Ivnu St.,.fanar, er.ulloyee or the "n?aia" in Zagreb;
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Mirko Petrovic, student; Petar Mihanovic, student; Mladen Jurinit, student;
Engr Nikola Ristic; Josip Furac, student; Ireljko Djuric, student; Leonid Blejic,
student; and Ignazije Rovisnjak, white-collar worker.
During the Fascist occupation, Tomo Iancikovic propagated Macek's trai-
torous policy that the occupation should not be resisted but the Home Defense
should be supported and it should fight the National Liberation Army. He ac-
tively,:ooperated with the enemy in suppressing the National Liberation move-
ment in Dalmatia. By order of Macek's Center in Yugoslavia, jancikovic went
to Dubrovnik in 1.943 to organize a military force which was to meet the West-
ern Allies when they landed and hand over the government to the government-
in-exile,
Immediately after the liberation, Jancekovic, the accused listed above,
and student Elatko Matijak, organised ?ith tee eupport of foreign imperialists
Macek's University Organization and Macek's Center, a conspiratorial, espionage,
and terrorist organization, the leading organ of Macek's policy in Yugoslavia.
Throngh these oreanizations Jancikovic ..upplied the foreign intelligence serv-
ice :Great Britairi?7 with lying reports on the situation in the country, elec-
tion results for the Constituent Assembly, and the like. All the acensed were
very active in trying to persuade the foreign agency lireat Bretain?7 to unite
all traitorous elements into the Peasant Block with tne purpose of provoking
the intervention and interference of foreign imperialists in Yugoslavia's in-
ternal affairs At the beginning of October 1945, when federal ministers Su
basic and Sutej resigned their positions on orders from abroad for the purpose
of creating confusion and disorder in the country, forcing the government to
resign on the eve of elections, and creating conditions for armed intervention
by foreign imperialists, Jancikovic joined the ministers and resigned as vice-
governor of the National Bank The trial clearly established Jencikovic's con-
nections with Jovanovic thrcugh Gazi
On the basis of irrefutable evidence, testimony of witnesses, and confes-
sions of the accused, they were sentenced to up to 10 years at nare labor.
TRIAL OF ORGANIZERS AND MEMBERS OF THE FASCIST
NATIONAL ALBANIAN DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION
Organizers and members of the Fascist National. Albanian Democratic Organi-
zation were put on trial before the District Court of Skoplje from 26 January
to 4 February 15ii7 The head of this group was Kemal Iskendert Alim, barber
in Skoplje and member of its central committee Also accused were Azem Idris
Morahi, teacher; Dedzit Aki Saber, gardener: Mamut Usein Dumani; Rudi Husim
Muarem; Italian officer durine the ot.cupatich; Mehmed Sec it, former officer
an president of a municipality during the occupation; Joeuz Imer Bala, teacher;
Keram Muhamed Elatko, physician; Oeman Amet Cant, farmer; Medet Mustafa Trasani,
merchant; Gahibee Memet Abdula, farmer; Spiro Hartle Teodoei, teacher; Ajdar
Kottte Jasar; Mula Memed Ajdar, farmer, Dzemal Faell Kasimov, militiaman; Serif
Memed Ali, carpenter, Dzavid Abdula Seltm, tailor; Galeb Rauf Mustafa, tailor;
Hasan Head: Bilaii, teacher: and Nazei fain Atom:, farmer Four of these were
members of the central ecmmittee, the majority were Albanians, but all were Yugo-
slav citizens
This Fascist organization, eetableehed in 19%5, was headesa since July
by a eentral committee To: organIzation s headquarters wesic, 3koplje and In
eworn enc.mies of the Yugoslav people, war faithful: y see.ved the enenej
during the war After the war they continued terrorism, hillings, organizing
of armed bandits, the spreading and ineitine of -. aai;,'iaLoci, and the like. The
organization tri,,d tc., rover th,F Fc'smet and Macedcnia goal was to attract
as large a number as possible of Alt,arians and Turkfi thrcwt chauvinist propa-
ganda, and uniTe them wt an Its bond La or pnrposs of rebellion
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With the support of foreign reactionaries, the accused tried to create by
means of armed rebellion conditions for foreign intervention, to split Yugo-
slavia, and unite the Kosmet and most of Macedonia into a Greater Albania under
Zog Bali leadership. For this purpose they established connections abroad with
reactionary Albanian emigres, with Vane Mihaijlov's organization, and defeated
groups of Ustashi and Chetniks in Yugoslavia. They received instructions from
Emin Vefa Gercek, the Turkish consul in Skoplje. They also asked instructions
from George Herbert Burton, the British consul in Skoplje, They held a congress
in June 19116 where they decided to terrorize and kill representatives of the
government, organize ambushes, and the like. By orders of this organization,
People's Hero Miladin Popovic; Redzep Zahazi, member of the Main Council arthe
People's Front of Macedonia; Memet Dauti, People's Deputy; and others were
killed.
The court found the accused guilty on the basis of their confessions, tes-
timonies of witnesses, and written documents. It sentenced them according to
their crimes. Four of them including Kemal Iskenderi /the other three not
epecified7 were sentenced to death. The others were sentenced to 2 to 20 years
at hard Tabor,
TRIAL OF MEMBERS OF THE VMRO
The trial of members of the VMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organi-
zation) was held before the District Court of Skoplje from 25 to 26 March l947.
The head of the group was Konstantln Hristov Terzijev, state employee. On trial
with him were Dr Vasil Ivanov, physician, Kosta Nikolov Truicev, physician;
Dimitar Glegorov Asev, geometrician; Metodije Popov, teacher; Blagoj Gasteov,
forester; Nikola Georgijev Popov, priest; Boris Dimitrov Corakrijev, teacher;
Kiril Efitimov Sisovski, teacher; Milan Ilijev Tlujkov, white-collar worker;
Gcorgi Sanev Gocev, farmer; Asen Laney Temov, barber; and Tome. Davkov Ivanov,
farmer,
The court established on the basis of confessions and other evidence that
after the liberation the accused organized the VMRC Terrarist Center in Skoplje
with Terzijev as its head They also organized branches of the center in some
parts of Eastern Macedonia and recruited for them longtime agents and terrorists
of the VMP.0 ? They established contact with enemies of postwar Yugoslavia abroad,
such as Vantsa Mikhaylov, the hangman of the Macedonian people, with the inten-
tion of separating Macedonia from Yugoslavia, liquidating the people's authority,
and creating an independent Macedonia. They followed directives of Vantsa Mikh-
aylov to establish contact with the reactionary groups of Petkov and Lulchev in
Bulgaria and weth monarcho-Fascist groups in Greece for joint action against.
Yugoslavia. They completed a plan to attack prominent milleary and civilian
personalities, terrorize Macedonia, and fulfill the terrorist aims of the VPRO
and Vantsa Mekhaylov
The court sentenced to death Terzijev, Ieancv, Traicev, Metodije Popov,
Gasteov, Rikcia Popov, and Temcv. The others were sentenced to hard labor.
TRIAL OF CROUPS OF TiE ,r.--IzEr. ORGANIZATION
The folleeang traitors who Sped for a foreign country, and organized ter.
c-orl3t G7'_:Uptl and sabotage were put on: trial before the District Court of Skopije
en the eeeond half of January le43 Azid Isak Sueic theology student from Skop-
lje; Abdurahman-Ali Alija, itinerant artisan from Sitoplje; Umer jakup Nazni;
Feria Seredin, teacher; SerfMehmed Refik, state employee; Sell Sulej-
mappeei Fatah, profeseor; Rasim Ilijue Kemal, state employee; Ibrahim Abdul-
kerim; Lute Etem, judge; Ahmed Sulejman Muhaeem, profeesor; Vevi Sukeija
merchant; Bilal Halil Salt, merchant; Serif re:L.1lb Meemed; Rusid Elmaz Sefik,
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bootmaker. All Adem Adem, bootmaker; Halil Mustafa All, merchant; Halil Mustafa
Amed, teacher; and Rifat Feder Kemal, carpenter. They started organizing a ter-
rorist organization, later named the Judiel, in the summer of 1945 on the direc-
tives of Rain Vefa Gerck, the Turkish consul in Skoplje. The organization fol-
lowed the instructions of the consul up to October 1945., After that it acted
upon the directives of the representative /not specified7 of a foreign country
in Belgrade and of Sefik Erdogan, the /later?7 Turkish consul in Skoplje.
The dury of this organization was to serve foreign espionage, commit ter-
rorism, and incite disorders among the Turkish population of Macedonia. The
members of this organization were instructed to penetrate the government and
people's organizations to steal documents and information for the foreign in-
telligence service. They were to sabotage the work of the people's authorities.
The accused organized special terrorise groups within the Judzel organization
which provided tralning in terrorism and sabotage. They tried to establish
bases in MAcedonia which were to serve as centers of insurrection as well as
connections vita monarcho-Fascists Ln Greece. Through espionage channels they
sent lying reports about Yugoslavia which were broadcast ebroad over certain
radio stations.
The courts sentenced to death Asia leak Suaic, Abdurahman All Ali,a, User
Jakup Nazni, and All Adem Adem. The others were sentenced to 3 years or more
at hard labor.
TRIAL OF USTASHI-C=NIK TERRORISTS AND SPIE3
A group of Uetashi terrorists and spies was brougnt to trial before the Su-
preme f7ourt.of Croatia from 12 to 17 Jul:;, and from 10 to 20 August. 1948 .? Ac-
cused wore the follceing. Ljebo Milos, private employee and former Ustashi Sol-
dier; Ante Vrban, farmer and former Ustashi soldier; Nikcla Pehar, farmer; Adam
Milicevlc, farmer; Mato Vasilj, farmer, eakov Marttnovic,Jarmer; Mimo Rosandic,
forester and former state secretary; Josip Tomljenovic, /landed77 proprietor
and former Ustashi lieutenant colonel, Rozidar Fetracic, forester and former
stozernik thigh administrative official),. Ivice Grzeta, poetoffice employee;
Gent Izidor Strmecki, white-collar employee and former first lieutenant; Mijo
Jagarinec? snoemaker's .assistant; Eduard Kursul, law student; Julie Spalj,
wnite-collar employee and former stozernik, Josip Jezovsek, forester; Vladimir
Hranilovic, teacher and. former Home Defense first lieutenant; Stjepan Krizantic,
teacher; Vjekoslav Spanicek, electrician and former Ustashi second lieutenant;
Zelimir Likc, priest and former Home Defense captain; Rudolf Srnak, teacher and
former stozernik; Dr Emil Tuk, jurist; Todor Panic, farmer; Pavao Vukic,.private
employee and former Ustashi soldier; Nikola Stanie, teacher; Branko Kustro,
teacher and former srez administrator; Ivan Vragolovic, bank employee and former
Home Defense captain; Milan Pribasic, merchant and former colonel in Macek's
Guard; Bozidar Micic, druggist; Dusan Tosic, commercial employee; Barisa Zilic,
worker and former Ustashi captain; Josip Matjasic, mechanic and former Ustashi
ensign: Franjo ?etek, forester; Vinko Dundovi:, lumber worker; Martin Mesic,
,udent: Ivan Sop, farmer and former Ustashi ensign; Jure "Djordje" Prcka,
teve:neeeper. Mihajlo Cote, electricean and former Ustashi camp commander;
Eduard Ptibilovic, student; Jure Brozovic, railroad worker; Jakov Medonic,
farmer; likola hubcic, worker; Vinko pa:lakovic, merchant's assistant; Milan
farmer, Ivan Ceranlc, butcher's ne:per; Zvonko Brezovtc, lathe operator;
Marko Juris'i, electrician; Pero Dujmovtc, chauffeur: tltjePon Bundic, lathe' open-
; Iv. 1 FT:sac, workr; an.1 formor commander of
MILItia; lawycu' and
fcrm.'r :. .a.:: 'tr.ry; Blskev, cniTenter: Tah::? Alagic, police guard;
an,1 SmId, f?Tmei
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Ljubo Milos, Bozider Kavran, and the other terrorists and spies were found
guilty of being members and functionaries of the Gestapo-Ustashi terrorist ma-
chinery of the Independent State of Croatia, or leaders and members of Ustashi
and Cnetnik units serving the German and Italian fascist occupatic . In collu-
sion with the occupation or under its command during the war and occupation or
under its command during the war and occupation from 1941 to 1945, they commit-
ted a number of mass and individual crimes against the civilian population and
captured members of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments.
Ljubo Milos, Ante Vrban, Nikola Pehar, Adam Milicevic, Mato Vasilj, and Jakov
Martinovic organized, ordered, conducted, or personal)" committed countless
mass and individual murders of inmates in the Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska, and
Lepoglava concentration camps. They sadistically tortured their victius and
killed them in the cruelest ways, by stabbing them to death, bludgeoning them
with iron bars and axes, driving wooden nails into their heads, burning them
when they were alive or unconscious, poisoning them with gas, starving them to
death, and killing them with hard work, so that hundreds of thousands of men,
women, and children lost their lives Bo7idar Kavran, Mimo Rosandic, Vladimir
Sabolic, Vjekoslav Blaskov, Josip Tomljenovic, Bozidar Petracic, and Julije
Spalj made up fifth column, which organized and developed Ustasni organizations
to serve the occupation and nelped loot and exterminate the Yugoslav people.
They organized, ordered, committed, or incited the commission of war crimes.
The others accused were responsible for a number of war crimes committed during
the war.
After the capitulation, some of these criminals escaped to the British-US
zone of Austria and some to occupied Italy, from where in the service of new
bosses they continued their criminal activity against Yugoslavia. They found
refuge in various camps and monasteries, and enlisted in the service of the
Vatican, which generously supported them. Constantly incited by the hostile
and warmongering propaganda of imperialists, the Vatican, and other reaction-
aries, they started organizing espionage and terrorist groups with the help of
foreign agents and the Vatican. Armed with weapons and equipped with radio
operating equipment, these men entered Yugoslavia to destroy railroad lines,
bridges, and telephone and telegraph lines; attack state and public warehouses,
kill prominent political and military representatives, and gather political,
economic, and military information for foreign espionage. Some of them based
their criminal activity on the Ustashi line; others, such as Milan Pribanic,
Bozidar Micic, and Dusan Tosic, followed 1-.he Macek-Chetnik line, but all were
united against Yugoslavia.
The court sentenced to death Ljubo Milos, Ante Vrban, Nikola Pehar, Adam
Milicevic, Mato Vasilj, Jakov Martinovic, Bozidar KavraJ, Mimo Rosandic, Vladi-
mir Sabolic, Vjekoslav Blaskov, Josip Tomljenovic, Boziclar.Petracic, Julije
Spalj, Ivica Grzeta, Genc Izidor Strmecki, Mijo Jagarinec, Eduard Krsul, Josip
Jezovsek, Vladimdr Hranilovic, Stjepan Krizantic, Vjekoslav Spanicek, Zelim'r
Liko, Rudolf Strnak, Milan Prildanic, Rozidar Micic, Dusan Tosic, Emil Tuk, _avao
Vukic, Branko Kustro, Todor Panic, lean Vragoloviz, Barisa Z,ilic, Jcsip Matjasic,
Franjo Petek, Vinko Dundovie, Martin Mesic, Ivan Sop, Jure Krek ffroka?7,
Mihajlo Cote, Eduard Pribilovic, Jakov Medonic, Leon Slatar, Tahir Alugic, and
Ivan Smid The others were sentenced to 15 to 20 years at hard labor.
TRIAL OF ARMED BAIIDIIS AND TERRORISTS OF THE SERNETZ GROUP
The following armed bandits and terrorists of the Sernetz group were put
on trial before the Military Court in Ljubljana from 21 to 24 July 1947; Franc
Ceti, butcher from Spodnja Volicinn near Maribor; Ferdinand "Peter" Kopnik,
farmer; Jakob Helbing, farmer; Konrad Hojnik, farmer; Antun "Misko" Brutus,
farmer; Slavko "Kachar" Pistotnik, textile worker; Edvard "Johnny" Borman;
Franc "Mtlan" Arnus, grinder; Ruao?f "Slaeo" white .collar employee; Joze
"Zlatl.o" Levicaik; Alolz :='erko, mechanic. trainee. and Alo,lz "Luka" Gruber, me-
cnanic trainee.
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After the liberation, as members of the occupation forces, they escaped
to Austria where they took refuge in displaced persons' camps in Stress, Vagna,
and Lipnitz. Upon instructions of the Royal National Committee in Salzburg
and National Council in Rome, and with the help of Austrian Nazis and warmonger-
ing representatives of the occupation powers, they started organizing a terror-
ist group in the camp [not specified7 under the leadership of former Gestapo
member Ferdinand Sernetz, In 1946 these bandits killed border guards, soldiers,
and officers of the Yugoslav Army, looted cooperatives, demolished offices of
people's councils, terrorized the populace, and the like, By crossing the fron-
tier illicitly, they continued these crimes in 1947. These bandits operated
along the Austrian frontier; they gathered military, political, and economic
information and sent it to Lieutenant Colonel Glisic of the Royal Army in Pongau
camp and members of the British FSS _ZT / in Lipnitz.
The court sentenced to death Franc Cob, Ferdinand Koe-ik, Jakob Helbing,
Antun Bratus, Franc Amos, Josef Levicnik, and Alojz.Perko_ The others were
sentenced to 30 to 20 years loss of freedhes fprisoni.
TRIAL OF GESTAPO SPTES AND TERRORISTS
The following were put on trial before the Military Court in Ljubljana
from 20 to 23 April 1948, Engr Branko Dil. graduate in philosophy; Stane Osvald,
geodetic engineer; Karel Bat le, chemical engineer; janko Pufler, glazier; Martin
Presterl, teacher; Boris Kranjc, chemical engineer; Milan Stepisnik, chemical
engineer: Vladimir Licen, chemistry professor; Paul Gaser, electrician; Hilde-
garde Hahn, housewife; Mirko Kosir, university professor; Oskar Juranic, gradu-
ate jurist; Peter Coric, commercial assistant; Ramo Dervisevic, printer and Joze
Benegalija, glazier's helper (who was gellty of subversive activity in the
Rrastnik Glens Plant on 23 October l)
On the basis of irrefutable evidence, the court found the accused guilty
of being Gestapo agents before and during the occupation. It also found that
they acted ac agents of a foreign imperialist pover not specifie97 after the
liberation, conducted planned salotag,-, terrorism, espionage, and deceptive
propaganda against Yugoslavia, using tneir positrons in the state administra-
tion, establishments, and Oxtor;er, to damage Yugoslavia as much as possible,
forcibly destroy the state and social order, and establish a government depend-
ent on foreign countries They ,00perated with the Gestapo, which sent them
as spies to vnrious concentration camps to denounce, mistreat, and torture pri-
soners, and e-xploit them for ttv, ;:a..ti war potential. The accused were function-
aries of Gestapo organs in eoncenrf,t;on :amps, where they worked in various
experimental stations and nreootels s.ondwcting criminal experiments on interned
persons, thereby committing the worct war crimes,.
Stone Os'raid, Korel bttrle, Sar,110 Pufler, Boris Kranjc, Milan
Stepisnik, Vladimir !.i con, Cs karJuran_lr, Martin Prer,terl, Paul Gaser, ard
HildeRerw-: Hall:: were :,cr.teel:cd to dooLl? others were setenceU to 20 years
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TRIAL OF BOR1VOJE PANTEIJC AND OTHERS
The following were put on trial before the District Court of Belgrade from
9 to 11 July 1947 Boraivoje Pantelic, lithographer, Gvozden Aleksic, former
merchant; Sreten Aleksdc, farmer, Zativarad Polomac, farmer; Slavisa Markovic,
former artillery sergeant and white-collar worker; Nikola Djurovic, farmer;
and Vladan Jovkovic, machinist.
Panttlic wan an employee in the Bureau for the Finding of the Graves of
US Airmen, a part of the ITS Military Mission in Belgrade The enemies of tbP
Yugoslav people utilized the bureau for organizing remnants of Chetnik grcups
and connecting them with representatives of a foreign intelligence service
/not specified/. Pantelie succeeded in providing these groups with arme
through Aleksic Gvozden? Under the excuse that they were searching for the
grave of a US pilot, Pantelic snd Gvozden made contacts for two foreign of-
ficers and Flarek, a US soldier, w:th the Chetniks, making it possible for the
accused to survey the terrain for an auxiliary airfield through which help
could be pplied to the Cheanika in ease of a conflict vath Yugoslavia.
Pantelac's traitorous activity was preyed before the court and he was sen-
tenced to 20 years at hard labor The others were sentenced to 8 months to
16 years at hard labor
TRIAL OF ANDRIJA LONCARIC
The following were pat on trial ,before the District Court of Belgrade
Andrija Lancaric, graduate technician; Djordale Alimpajevic, cnauffeur; and
.VojislavVidakovic, former whate,cellat warker. Loncarac was found gualty of
'coming to Yugoslavia durang one occupation as confidential agent of emigres
'and foreign reactionarlea to establish contact with traitorous elements in the
country for ex-King Peter and for foreign reactionaries. For this purpose he
came to tte headquaratrs cf Draza Maha,;lovic, ,:-.tablisned contact with Drags ea
Cvetkovic and other Chetnik commanders and brought rhem instructlons from
abroad, After the liberation, roe again illegally entered the country by order
of ex .King Peter He sent lying reports to hiE bosses abroad through Alfred
Fovel, an employee of the French Embassy, atating that some Chetnik commanders
were stall alive, that terra: arc was ozevalent In Yugoslavia, that Yugoslavia
was preparing for war, and tae Iire Alimpi:,evic and Vidakovic supported Lon-
caric in his work All three wera seatenced to temporary punishment /suspended
ventences?7
TRIAL OF BISHOP PETAR COLE AND OTHERS
Uetashi bishop Peter Cule and bin Usaarel-Crusader assistants Mladen
Barbaric, priest, Rufim Bullc, priest, Mato Mta:ic, employed in the bishopric
it Mostar iind graduate student of theoiegy, Slavica Bcsnjak, worker, Krescencija
Novak, nun, Malta aalie, nun, Danica Bartulic, housemaid in the bishopric in
Mostar; and Felaksa Kravcar, nan, served the cccupation and continued their
criminal actIvity after the liberatlan They were put on trial before the
District Court of Mostar in July 1946
The Court eatablistea on tne basis of confessiehs of ore aceused, original
evidenee, arid aeatimonies of witnescea teat Peter- Cole asd Mladen Barbaric ac-
tively cooperated with the occupation, glarlf,ec ito power, rraieed the Inde-
pendent State if Croatia in sermora, and the press, and urged an active struggle
againaa the National Liberation mavemeht After the liberation Bishop Cule
end his anststants ataanIzed and supported Ustashi.Crusader groups, which
loated, burned, allied, end spread lies about .fugoslavia and the people's
authority The Fianciecan Monastery and the convent in Mesta: turned
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into a base for supplying and arming Ustashi-Crusader rebels, Cuie was one of
the main organizers of Ustashi groups in als Bishopric. Be encouraged them to
presevere in their criminal activities Following his instructions, the
bandits gave special attention to attacking Croatian patriots, members of the
People's Front
Cule was sentenced to 111 years at hard labor. The others were sentenced
to shorter terms
TRIAL OF VOJISLAV NASTIC-VARNAVA
Vojislav-Varnava Mastic, Vicar.ianap Pacar-generalaj in Sara3evo, was
put on trial before toe District Court of Sarajevo on 26 to 27 February l948
On the basis of Nastia's confession and tae testimony of several witnesses,
the court proved that he held meeting with farmers in Fraaa and Rogatica
srezes and with some persons from Sara:,evo, at which he attacked the revolu-
tionary achievements of the National. Liberaticn War. He stated that there was
lawlesaness and tyranny in the country, that people had no rigats, and that
the masses were never in a worse pas:tion In the summer of 1945, he held
meetings vita ivan Condric, leader of Ustaahl-Crusader terrorist groups, with
whom ne agreed that Catholic and 021,t'QX priests in Sarajevo should cooperate
in organizing and supporting such groups in the field They drew up a plan
and bUtzti.( started to help save Chetnik groups In his sermons and personal
contacts Nastic attacked the Yugoslav Army, the people's authority, and the
Fave-Year Plan, be spread propaganda about the inevitability of war between
the USSR and the US, and the like He Incited caauvinist hatred against Croa-
tians and Moslems. He forwarded lying reports to certain members 27!ca speci-
fied/ of faraagn 'missions about toe clauatian in Yugoslavia for the purpose
of promoting the intervention of foreaav powers in Yugoslav internal affairs.
The raurt sentenced Nastic to la yearn at naad iabor
TRIAL OF ORGANIZERS AND MEKBERS OF A FASCIST
ESPIONAGE AND TERRORIST ORGAN1ZATTON
A group of Ustashi riaa to develop terrorast activity after
the liberation and conducted espianaa, far tneir foreign tacses, were put on
trial before toe People .a Court in Zagreb froM 23 to 25 July 1947.
Ivan Mates i: Ustashi cramiaal, Ivica Saramor, aestapo agent; Father Peter
Grabic, monks Serafim Rajic, Mate)a Vananavic, Alberto Dbrir, Josip Viskavic,
laonardo Bsayir, and Jalanaa aauer, one intImata friend of these monks, beaan
ea:pionage activitlea after tae Ilberanian Taey estabiisned an eapionaga and
terrarisc araaaization in ths Fraacr.,ran Maaastery of Our Lady of Lourdes at
No aa Irbaniceva Wise in Zaareb in February a947, tray plated eaplosives,
which aea been recelvea fram shraaa taaaeaa ;iaa Miknlic, an escaped Uctashi
criminal,
in tn. watenausa Date:I:Tice to arsareb, waiah damaged
the uaranause, killaa ahree, and aeriaasly waundad two workers
aeratim Roaw, Mata..)a Vaaanaaic, a:berta Baric, Jaoia Viokovir, and Leon-
a.aa aaaaaa lease reports sda:oa. fuaaaleaia, tryina to snow anar sentencas
of we: sram:aala and aeapte's enetles aere tas r'-it of aariaruaion Of pa-
trtotA, of one CAO%0,iC Cur. F. and ;;a:eatn, and af the strangling of re-
ligiana freaaam la the aecana nalf of laaa, they started to distribute un-
friaaaly aiaaaLaan amana their accara,ntaara: They aeliverea sermona which in-
directly and anr---atly attaraod the aeaaie a aatacarity aid the people'a state,
ana aasci?iia.a aaa eitaattan tar toantry faiaely, and the like The accused
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monks received instructions and support from some church dignitaries in Kaptol.
These monks helped military deserters and other criminals wanted by the state
and helped them escape to Austria and Italy.
Tvan Matosic was put on trial for a number of war crimes committed against
the population during the 'occupation, and Ivica Salamon for having joined and
recruited fcr the Gestapo in 1943. Father Peter Grabic, Provincial of the
Split Monastery, encouraged the monks in their activities against the people.
Serafim Rajic and others reported on their work against the people to him and
he approved it. During the occupation Grabic was closely connected with high
church dignitaries in Kaptol who were against the people. He was known as a
staunch Ustashi who used to report personally to Pavelic. He helped, to recruit
his subordinates for the military chaplaincy, and persecuted priests and 4-iv:mks
cooperating with the National Liberation movement.
The court sentenced to death Ivan Matcslc, Ivica Salamon, Serafim Ra3ic,
and Mateja Vodanovic. The others were sentencedto9 to 15 years at hard labor.
Uros Bijelic, Vladislav
Milan Brkic, and Jovo Tsrnogorcevic
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