Krunoslav Draganović
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| Occupation(s) | Roman Catholic priest and historian Headed the Confraternity of San Girolamo ratline |
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Krunoslav Stjepan Draganović (30 October 1903 – 5 July 1983) was a
Early life
Draganović was born in the village of
From 1932 to 1935, he studied at the
In 1935, he returned to Bosnia, initially as secretary to Archbishop Ivan Šarić.
World War II and Ratlines
Draganović was an
Ante Pavelić hid for two years, from 1945 to 1948, in Italy under the protection of Draganović and the Vatican, before surfacing in Buenos Aires in Argentina.[7]
Through his ratline, Draganović played a major role in helping many notorious Nazi and Ustaše war criminals flee from Europe, such as Adolf Eichmann, Walter Rauff, and Dinko Šakić[8] and collaborating with Austrian Bishop Alois Hudal in aiding their escape to Juan Peron's Argentina.
Draganović was accused of laundering the Ustaše's treasure of jewellery and other items stolen from war victims in Croatia.[9] According to the CIA, Draganović was "not amenable to control, too knowledgeable of unit personnel and activity, demanded outrageous monetary tribute and U.S. support of Croat organizations as partial payment for cooperation."[10]
In 1945, Draganović printed his Mali hrvatski kalendar za godinu 1945 (Small Croatian Calendar for the year 1945) in Rome for Croatian emigrants.[11]
He maintained regular contacts with the former NDH leader Ante Pavelić, who was in hiding.[12]
Return to Yugoslavia
Some mystery surrounds Draganović's later defection to
On 10 November 1967, the Yugoslavian state attorney declared that Draganović was in Sarajevo—as a free man, as Yugoslav authorities reportedly sought information from Draganović in exchange for granting him freedom.[13] He was supposed to "tell-all", name his colleagues and like-minded people, hand his archive over to Tito's agents, make some positive remarks about Communist Yugoslavia and in return, Belgrade would waive judicial condemnation and imprisonment.[13]
UDBA held Draganović in Belgrade for 42 days and once the investigation against him concluded he appeared in Sarajevo where he held a press conference (on 15 November 1967) at which he praised the "democratisation and humanising of life" under Tito. He denied claims made by the Croatian diaspora press that he had been kidnapped or entrapped by the UDBA. Draganović spent his last years in Sarajevo forming a new general register of the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia.[14] Draganović died in Sarajevo on 5 July 1983.[15]
Works
- Izvješće fra Tome Ivkovića, biskupa skradinskog, iz godine 1630. (1933)
- Izvješće apostolskog vizitatora Petra Masarechija o prilikama katoličkog naroda u Bugarskoj, Srbiji, Srijemu, Slavoniji i Bosni g. 1623. i 1624. (1937)
- Opći šematizam Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji, en: General schematism of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia (1939)[16]
- Hrvati i Herceg-Bosna (1940)
- Hrvatske biskupije. Sadašnjost kroz prizmu prošlosti (1943)
- Katalog katoličkih župa u BH u XVII. vijeku (1944)
- Povijest Crkve u Hrvatskoj (1944)
- Opći šematizam Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji, Cerkev v Jugoslaviji 1974, en: General schematism of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia, The Church in Yugoslavia 1974 (1975)[17]
- Katarina Kosača – Bosanska kraljica (1978)
- Komušina i Kondžilo (1981)
- Masovni prijelazi katolika na pravoslavlje hrvatskog govornog područja u vrijeme vladavine Turaka (1991)
See also
- Operation Bloodstone
- Operation Paperclip
- Ratlinesfor more details and references on Draganović escape-route activities.
- Vatican City during World War II
- Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
- Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II
- Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
- Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše
References
- ^ "Press Release". Archives.gov. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9780521852685.
- ^ "Sažetak". Studiacroatica.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ISBN 9780253346568.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-317-98682-9.
- ^ "The Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury" (PDF). U.S. State Department. June 1998. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Adolf Hitler greets Ante Pavelic, leader of the Croatian puppet state, upon his arrival at the Berghof for a state visit. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org.
- ^ "Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in South America after 1945. Careers and Networks in their Destination Countries | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften | Geschichte im Netz | History in the web". H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (in German). 2024-01-21. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
- Vatican Bank and the national Catholic Church of Croatia in Rome, St Jerome of the Illyrianspagg.100–101, Eric Salerno, Mossad base Italia: le azioni, gli intrighi, le verità nascoste, Il Saggiatore 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-429-94724-4.
- ^ Berislav Jandrić, Saveznički izbjeglički logori, počeci otpora hrvatske političke emigracije komunističkom režimu u domovini (logor Fermo), 1945. Razdjelnica hrvatske povijesti. Zagreb, p. 313
- ISBN 9780857725356. P. 158
- ^ ISBN 978-0-199-64245-8.
- ISBN 978-0-03-069303-8.
- ISBN 978-9-633-86206-3.
- ^ Draganović, Krunoslav (1939). Opći šematizam Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji (1939). Curia Archiepiscopalis Vrhbosnensis.
- ^ Opći šematizam Katoličke Crkve u Jugoslaviji 1974. Biskupska Konferencija Jugoslavije. 1975.
Bibliography
- Anderson, Scott & Anderson, John Lee, Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League. Dodd Mead, 1986, ISBN 0396085172
- Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and the Swiss Bankers, St Martins Press 1991 (revised 1998)
- ISBN 1-86207-581-6)
- Eric Salerno, Mossad base Italia: le azioni, gli intrighi, le verità nascoste, Il Saggiatore 2010. (Italian text)
External links
- Background Report on Krunoslav Draganović, CIA, February 12, 1947. Published on the website of the Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Declassified US CIA files on Krunoslav Draganović on Archive.org
- Some example files on Draganović on cia.gov, find the rest here:
- COVERT ACTION: SPECIAL: NAZIS, THE VATICAN, AND CIA: This issue of CAIB focuses on the fascist connection, in particular the U.S. role in helping hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prominent Nazis avoid retribution at the end of World War
- DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT
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