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Mонографије, есеји и примарни извори

  • The application of remote sensing and IT in research of mass graves in the system of Jasenovac ustasha camps
    By Jasmin Babić, Tomas Čupković and Nebojsa Bosiočić (PDF - 2330Kb)
    Даљинско очитавање (remote sensing) омогућава добијање велике количине квалитативно нових података о земљиној површини. Оно такође ствара геодетски тачне основе на нов, ефикасан и економичан начин. Такође се може применити и на откривање масовних гробница система усташких логора смрти. Овакво истраживање захтева интердисциплинарни приступ и методологију помоћу које можемо наћи тачну локацију и направити детаљну анализу било које појединачне гробнице.
  • Georadar test examinations on the place of mass execution - Donja Gradina
    By Spomenko J. Mihajlović, Vasilije Belobrković and Vladimir Miletić (PDF - 460Kb)
  • Preliminary Project Donja Gradina
    By Miroslav Marković, Jasmin Babić and Nebojsa Bosiočić (PDF - 85Kb)

Општи примарни историјски извори

Љубазношћу „The Pavelić Papers“ project

The Foundation of the Ustase Movement, 1929-1940 • The Independent State of Croatia •
The Ratline and the Crusaders, 1945-1950

"The Ustase Won't Refrain from Killing"
The Foundation of the Ustase Movement, 1929-1940

Principles of the Ustase Movement
1929: The founding document of the Ustase, presented in full English translation for the first time

The Conspirator Rediscovered
1990: Interview with IMRO leader Ivan "Vance" Mihailov on the assassination of King Alexander

"The Victorious Axis"
1929: The founding document of the Ustase, presented in full English translation for the first time

News Excerpt: Croat Leader in Hospital
February 18, 1939: New York Times report on the hunger strike of Ustase leader Branimir Jelić in the United States

News Excerpt: Dr. Jelic Wins in Court
July 18, 1939: New York Times report on Branimir Jelić's release from prison by court order

Pavelić: Ten Years Struggle in the Homeland
January 9-13, 1999: Lengthy excerpts from one of Pavelić's autobiographies, as serialized in a right-wing Croatian paper in 1999

"The Dagger, the Gun & the Crucifix"
The Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945

Pavelić's Radio Address to Croatia
April 5, 1941: Excerpt from a radio speech Pavelić broadcast into Croatia on the eve of war, urging the Croatian people to "cleanse" the land of enemies

A Telegram to Mussolini
April 8, 1941: Letter Sent to the Italian Duce by Ustase leader Ante Pavelić on the Invasion of Yugoslavia

Katolički List: The Foundation of the Independent State of Croatia
April 1941: Article from the Catholic paper Katolički List lauding the formation of the Independent State of Croatia

Decree: On the First Croatian Government
April 16, 1941: Pavelić declares himself head of state and names his closest advisors as ministers

News: In the Sign of Sacrifice
April 27, 1941: Excerpt from an article by Father Franjo Kralik praising the work done by Dr. Ivan Merz's Croatian youth group as being in line with the "spiritual program of the Ustase"

Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Stepinac
April 28, 1941: The full text of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac's exhortation for priests to participate fully in the work of the Independent State of Croatia

Decree: On Racial Affiliation
April 30, 1941: English Translation of the Ustase Decree and Law "On Racial Affiliation"

Decree: On the Protection of Aryan Blood
April 30, 1941: English Translation of the Ustase Law "On the Protection of Aryan Blood..."

Comparison Between Nazi and Ustase Racial Decrees
1941: Comparison between the decrees passed in Germany and the NDH giving precise definition to who was and was not Jewish

Stepinac Letters to Artuković
April 1941-November 1942: Letters from Archbishop Stepinac to Interior Minister Artuković on application of the NDH racial decrees

Order: The White Armbands
May 12, 1941: Order to municipal leaders for all Serbs to wear a white armband designating them as Orthodox

News: Victor Gutić's Visit to Petricevac
May 16, 1941: Eleven days before murdering the Orthodox Bishop of Banja Luka, Ustase prefect Victor Gutić visits the Franciscan monastery at Petrićevac

Decree: On the Establishment of Courts-Martial
May 17, 1941: The complete text in English translation of the decree which established courts-martial for civilians in the Independent State of Croatia, in which the only legal sentence permitted was death by firing squad

Archbishop Šarić on His Pre-War Meetings With the Ustase
May 1941: Book excerpt quoting a nostalgic newspaper article authored by Ivan Šarić, Archbishop of Sarajevo

Order: The Expulsion of Serbs from Slavonia and Srem
June 2, 1941: Just six weeks after the founding of the NDH, organized, mass expulsions begin.

News: Speech by Minister Milovan Žanić
June 3, 1941: Excerpt from a speech by the Ustase minister exhorting the audience to "cleanse" Croatia of Serbs, and adding that it was state policy to do so.

Decree: Ustase Command-Dubrovnik Order No. 188:44
June 25, 1941: Prohibition on radios and forbidding Jews and Serbs from congregating at night, signed by Dubrovnik Ustase prefect Ivo Rojnica

Report by Laxa on Unrest in Hercegovina
c. July 5, 1941: Report by General Vladimir Laxa of the Croatian regular army forces on atrocities by the Ustase in Hercegovina in the first months of the NDH

The Career of Andrija Artuković
Excerpt from Wanted: The Search for Nazis in America on the career of Ustase Interior Minister Andrija Artuković

"The NDH is an Islamic State"
Spring-Summer 1941: Book excerpt quoting Ustase Minister of Education, Religion and Cults Mile Budak on "Islamic Croats"

Letter: "The Franciscans Haven't Gotten a Dime"
Summer, 1941: Powerful letter from a Catholic priest in the NDH to his exiled Orthodox counterpart

Hercegovina in 1941
July 1941: Milovan Đilas' description of a countryside ripped apart by Maks Luburić's henchmen

Letter: "Nature Takes Its Course"
July 31, 1941: Book excerpt quoting a letter from a Franciscan priest from Koraca to the Ustase prefect at Derventa, on the marriage of widowed Serbs to Catholic men

Letter: Slovenian Settlers on Massacres Near Vojnić
August 2, 1941: Found in the NDH Archives, this is a letter written by Slovenian settlers relocated from the German Reich, addressed to German General Edmond Glaise von Horstenau on the extrajudicial murder of 400 Serbs by the Ustase

Report: Seven Hundred Hostages Shot by the Ustase
August 6, 1941: Report on a rise in Chetnik activity and the corresponding massacre of 700 Serbian civilians from Sanski Most by the Ustase near Banja Luka

Letter from the Bishop of Mostar to Archbishop Stepinac
August, 1941: Book excerpt quoting the response by the Bishop of Mostar to Stepinac's inquiry as to the progress of forced conversions to Catholicism among the Serbian population

Croatian Police Report: The "Cleansing" of Serbs near Slunj
August 13, 1941: Shocking eyewitness report by the Croatian commander of a police platoon in Slunj about the mass expulsions, conversions, and slaughter of Serbs in the area.

Decree: On the Croatian Language, Its Purity and Spelling
August 14, 1941: Mile Budak on how people should talk and write, with a promise to "determine penalties for the protection of the purity of the language and its spelling"

Order: Request by General Laxa for Ustase to Leave Bosnia
September 11, 1941: Decoded communication from General Vladimir Laxa to the Ministry of Defense for "murdering and pillaging" Ustase units from Hercegovina to be removed from Bosnia at once before they provoke an even larger uprising

News Excerpt: "The Renewal of Medieval Times"
September 18, 1941: Book excerpt quoting an article in Il Resto del Carlino describing Franciscan complicity in the massacre of the Serbs by an Italian eyewitness.

Letter: Bishop Akšamović on Prayer for the "Crusade War"
September 24, 1941: Letter from the Bishop of Đakovo calling on Croats to pray for a quick end to the war after the Nazi invasion of the USSR - and honoring Pavelić and Hitler

Stepinac's Letter on the Resettlement of Slovene Monks
October 3, 1941: Letter from Stepinac to Ante Pavelić on Slovene monks taking over the cathedral of exiled Serb Orthodox clergy

News Excerpt: "Love Has Its Limits"
1941: Anti-Semitic article often attributed to Ivan Šarić, but actually the work of his subordinate, Father Franjo Kralik

Book Excerpt: Jasenovac Survivor on Fra Miroslav Filipović-Majstorović
Book excerpt of an interview with Nikola Nikolić on the Ustase priest, Fra Miroslav Filipović-Majstorović

Book Excerpt: Adolf Friedrich, Jasenovac Survivor
Memories of Jasenovac from Adolf Friedrich, a Jewish inmate of Jasenovac

Report on the Murder of 800 Civilians near Petrinja
December 3, 1941: Tersely-worded request for information by German General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau regarding the massacre of 800 "men, women and children" by the Ustase near Petrinja

Report on the Death of Peasants in Jablanica
December 4, 1941: Police report from Banja Luka on the massacre of 107 Serbs, "mostly boys from 12 to 15 years of age," and the massacre by the Ustase of mourners at a Serbian funeral

Government Release: The Declaration of War on the US and Britain
December 14, 1941: The document declaring the Independent State of Croatia in a state of war with the United States and England

Book Excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on the Ustase Clergy
Excerpt describing the complicity of the Vatican and Catholic priests in the Ustase Terror

Book Excerpt: Catholic Origins of the Ustase Oath
"The intensity of Croatian Catholicism would now be transferred... to a political movement"

Letter: Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Concentration Camps
German Wehrmacht General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau's comments after his inspection of an Ustase Concentration Camp

Letter: Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Massacres
"The 'lucky' inhabitants were consigned to one of the fearsome boxcar trains; many 'passengers' cut their veins on the journey"

News Excerpt: Jews as "the Insatiable Parasites"
February, 1942: Transcript of Andrija Artuković's speech to parliament denouncing "Judeo-Communists" as "poisonous and insatiable parasites"

Letter: Rusinović on Meeting with Cardinal Tisserant
March 6, 1942: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican on a stormy meeting with Vatican official Cardinal Eugene Tisserant

OSS Report: Ante Doshen
March 31, 1942: "Doshen has been and still is, one of the best agents of Ante Pavelić" in the United States

OSS Report: Reverend Hugolin Feis
March 31, 1942: "This friar is a pronounced fascist and violently anti-democratic in principle"

OSS Report: The Croatian Central Committee
April 7, 1942: The formation of pro-Allied, anti-Pavelić Croatian émigré organizations in the United States

OSS Report: Serb National Federation
April 8, 1942: OSS agent "SK's" report on the activities of a Serb group's reaction to the Ustase massacres in the NDH

OSS Report: Croatian Fraternal Union Affairs
April 23, 1942: OSS agent "SK's" report on internal dissension within the Croatian Fraternal Union

OSS Report: The Croatian Home Defenders
April 29, 1942: The activities of members of the banned American branch of the Ustase movement, the Croatian Home Defenders

OSS Report: The Croatian Catholic Union
May 3, 1942: Initial report on a group the OSS considered heavily infiltrated by Ustase adherents

OSS Report: Activities of Dr. A. Pavelić's Exponents
May 5, 1942: Report on the pro-Axis activities of the former editor of the newspaper Independent State of Croatia

OSS Report: Axis Propagandists Within the Croatian Catholic Union
May 9, 1942: Report on a meeting of the Board of Directors of the CCU, in which the pro-Allied editor is taken to task for his writing against Hitler and Pavelić

Letter: Ambassador Nikola Rušinović on Stepinac in Rome
May 9, 1942: Letter from the NDH's ambassador to the Vatican on the conduct of Stepinac during his interviews with Pope Pius XII

OSS Report: "Pavelić's Cossacked Agents"
May 19, 1942: The Rev. Spiro Andrianich and other Pavelić adherents in America

The Efficiency of Mass Slaughter
October 9th, 1942: Maks Luburić on the efficiency of his concentration camp system

Croatian Police Report: The Slaughter of Serbs near Pokupje
October 15, 1942: Report forwarded through the Interior Ministry regarding the killing of Serbs in Kordun and Banija since the NDH's formation in April 1941, including the notorious Glina Church Massacre

Special Assignment in the Southeast
Dr. Hermann Neubacher, the German Plenipotentiary in SE Europe, on the "Croatian Crusade of Destruction"

Letter: Letter to Minister Anthony Eden
November 13, 1942: An official with the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile in London informs the British Foreign Office of reports of mass slaughter in the NDH

Letter: The Fate of Father Franjo Rihar
November 17, 1942: Artuković sends a Catholic priest to Jasenovac for refusing to celebrate the NDH and its Poglavnik

News Excerpt: Ivo Goldstein at the Sakic War Crimes Trial
June 1, 1999: Historian Ivo Goldstein on Jasenovac and the Jewish Problem

News Excerpt: Under the Government of the Ustashi Monster
November 11, 1993: Review of the History of the Yugoslav Jews, by Yosef Algazi, Haaretz

Letter: Lobkowicz on February 1943 Meeting with the Pope
February 9, 1943: Letter from the NDH's ambassador to the Vatican detailing his interview with Pope Pius XII

Letter: Lobkowicz on Meeting with Cardinal Spellman
March 6, 1943: Letter from the NDH Ambassador to the Vatican on a meeting with New York Cardinal Spellman at the height of the war

Stepinac's Address to Pius XII
May 18, 1943: Aide-mémoire by Stepinac personally delivered to Pope Pius XII at their later meeting

Letter: Lobkowicz on Stepinac's Meeting with the Pope
June 10, 1943: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican describing the general impression among Vatican officials of Stepinac's second interview with the Pope

Letter: Lobkowicz on July 1943 Meeting with the Pope
July 13, 1943: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican on a July meeting with the Pope

Proposal for Decoration for Nada Luburić
1944: Proposal for a decoration for Nada Luburić, future wife of Jasenovac commandant Dinko Šakić, for bravery

Decoration for Nada Luburić, Maja Buždon, etc.
1944: Order signed by Ante Pavelić himself bestowing a military decoration on female concentration camp guards at Stara Gradiška

OSS Report: Memorandum on Yugoslav Groups in the US
June 28, 1944: Lengthy report including extensive background information the American branch of the Ustase movement, the Domobran

Letter from Erwin Lobkowicz on Stepinac in Rome
May 1943: Letter from the new NDH Ambassador to the Vatican on Stepinac's second visit to Rome, in which he justified the persecution of the Jews as abortionists

Book Excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
From the "Jasenovac" Entry

Book Excerpt: Evelyn Waugh on the Sarajevo Franciscans
From the Catholic novelist who spent some time as part of the Allied mission to Yugoslavia in World War II

Judicial Testimony: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (Excerpt)
Andrija Artuković's role in the Holocaust

Judicial Testimony: Measures Taken Against the Jews
Testimony of Holocaust survivor Alexander Arnon at the Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Judicial Decision: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Judgment (Excerpt)
"only 1,500 out of 30,000 Croatian Jews remained alive..."

Book Excerpt: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt on the Destruction of Croatian Jewry

"To Maintain a Moral Reserve"
The Ratline and the Crusaders, 1945-1950

US Army File: Supreme Allied HQ to 12th and 6th Army (Austria)
June 5, 1945: "Ante Pavelić... may be in your area"

US Army File: Judge Advocate General to Army Counter-Intelligence
November 5, 1945: Form Inquiring after Pavelić's Whereabouts

US Army File: Rome Area Allied Command to CIC
August 8, 1945: "Is Pavelić in Rome? Is San Gerolamo Monastery used as a haven..."

US Army File: Dr. DRAGANOVIĆ' Krunoslav
Unknown: Information on Draganović, Austria, Pavelić, the Vatican and the Križari

News Excerpt: Interview with Marija Pavelić
May 22, 1992: Interview in Croatian Newspaper Globus with Pavelić's Daughter on his Whereabouts in the Summer, 1945

US Army File: Rome Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Memorandum
August 25, 1945: On News Reports of Pavelić's Arrest in Austria

Crimes in the Jasenovac Camp
1946: Official comprehensive report by the State Commission in Croatia documenting crimes committed by the Ustase in the Jasenovac concentration camp

Alleged Vatican Protection of Jugoslav War Criminals
July 12, 1946: Reference to a number of Nazi-allied figures taking sanctuary in San Girolamo

CIA File: Organization of the Ustase Abroad
October 1946: Intelligence report listing names of Ustase cells throughout Italy and Austria with their area of expertise

US Army File: Background Material on Krunoslav Draganović
October 10, 1946: One of the first and most crucial extant files tracing Krunoslav Draganović's role in the Ratline

US Army File: Unidentified Document (Index Card)
October 12, 1946: Possibly Sent to Confirm if Pavelić Had Been in U.S. Custody in Austria

US Treasury: The Bigelow Memo
October 21, 1946: Report from Emerson Bigelow on the fate of the wartime Ustase treasury

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agent William Gowen
January 17, 1947: Re: article about Pavelić in the Swiss Press

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agent Gowen
January 22, 1947: Investigation of Pavelić's Vatican Sanctuary; First Appearance of Krunoslav Draganović in the Army Dossier

US Army File: CIC Summary from Special Agent Robert Clayton Mudd
January 30, 1947: Overview of Pavelić's Biography to Date; First Allusion to the "Ratline" in the CIC Files

CIA File: Background Report on Krunoslav Draganović
February 12, 1947: Agent Robert Clayton Mudd's report on Draganović's past and present activity vis-a-vis the Ustase and Pavelić

US Army File: Cover Letter by Ass. Chief of Staff G-2 Robert Stuart
February 25, 1947: A moment of equivocation as to the subject's whereabouts when forwarding Agent Gowen's latest report.

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agents Caniglia and Zappala
March 15, 1947: "In Rome Pavelić took refuge in a religious institution..."

US Army File: Unknown Document (Index Card)
April 14, 1947: An index card pulled from an unknown source. Interesting that Pavelić is classified in this one in a category of "Yugoslav Anti-Communists."

US Army File: Investigation by Capt. Marion Scott
April 18, 1947: Long investigation report on Pavelić and other Ustase in Italy

US Army File: CIC Cover Letter to Scott Report
April 21, 1947: Note included with Scott report which casts doubt on the key informant's usefulness

CIA File: The Do Marius Report
May 6, 1947: A bizarre tale of a meeting with the Poglavnik

US Army File: Information Sheet
May 19, 1947: What appears to be information acquired from OZNA, the Yugoslav secret police, on Pavelić in Italy

US Army File: Unknown Document (Index Card)
May 25, 1947: Two sentence card, quoting Belgrade Radio as saying the British let Pavelić escape, presumably from their custody in Austria

US Army File: Summary of Information from Agents Gowen and Caniglia
June 9, 1947: Report confirming Pavelić has not, as others have reported, left Rome at all

CIA File: American Agents in the Križari Campaign
July 3, 1947: Profiles of two Križari operatives who claim Allied-American support

US Army File: "Ante Pavelić and other Ustasha Personalities"
c. July, 1947: Dated by other researchers in early July, this document appears to have been obtained in final preparation for Pavelić's arrest

US Army File: "Hands Off"
July 7 and 14, 1947: One of the most crucial documents in the archive: a two word, handwritten note appended to the bottom of this otherwise ordinary memo

US Army File: Memorandum from the Political Adviser to Supreme Allied Commander
July 29, 1947: "...military authorities should cooperate with the Italian authorities to the extent necessary and possible..."

US Army File: Memorandum from the British Political Adviser
August 2, 1947: Response to the American Political Adviser listed above

US Army File: G-2 Brief on Pavelić's Background to Allied Headquarters
August 7, 1947: In response to their request

US Army File: Memorandum by Agent William Gowen
August 29, 1947: In just 45 days, Pavelić has gone from a criminal to be captured to a potential collaborator whose chief victims - the Serbs - want him to be free as well

CIA File: Documentary Evidence of Krunoslav Draganović's Ustase Activity
September 5, 1947: CIC Agent Mudd's report citing evidence of Draganović's role in the Ratline, sent without results to his superiors

US Army File: Memorandum by Agent William Gowen
September 12, 1947: "...any extradition of Subject would deal a staggering blow to the Roman Catholic Church"

US Army File: Unknown Document
October 17, 1947: Small index card-type file with a few misc claims

CIA File: The "Alter Ego" of Ante Pavelić
November 26, 1947: Intelligence report on Fr. Krunoslav Draganović

US Army File: Telegram Received by G-2
January 7, 1948?: Telegram regarding departure of Ante Pavelić from Rome

US Army File: Unknown Document
February 16, 1948?: Another index card-type file with a quote about the "new" principles of the Ustase

CIA File: The Croatian Resistance Movement (I)
June 14, 1948: CIA report on the organization and internal dynamics of the Križari

CIA File: The Croatian Resistance Movement (II)
c. 1948: CIA report on leaders of the Croatian Resistance Movement, including the missing leader of the terror unit Crna Legija or Black Legion, Rafael Boban

News: Yugoslavs Try Fifty as Spies
July 13, 1948: News account of the Yugoslav trials of captured Križari, mentioning Draganović

US Army File: Rat Line from Austria to South America
July 12, 1948: Crucial memo from the CIC in Austria, written by the man who formed the Ratline with Krunoslav Draganović's assistance

CIA File: Reported Arrival of Ante Pavelić in Argentina
December 2, 1948: Appears to be a microfilm document with information on the arrival of Pavelić and other Ustase in Argentina

CIA File: Franjo Cvijić and the Ustase Treasury
June 17, 1949: Report on movements of NDH bank president Franjo Cvijić and his expected emigration to Argentina

US Army File: History of the Italian Rat Line
April 10, 1950: Comprehensive history of the Nazi smuggling program and Krunoslav Draganović's role

Order: Maks Luburić's Proclamation
August 9, 1950: The order from General Drinyanin (aka Maks Luburić) ordering Croats to cease enlisting in the armies of foreign nations

CIA File: CIA Internal Memo
October 16, 1950: Mentions Krunoslav Draganović's relations with Pavelić, Maček and other Croatian leaders

CIA File: Notes from the Foreign Language Press
November 8, 1950: Newspaper reports on Krunoslav Draganović and a pointed attack on Vladko Maček