Ljubo Miloš
Ljubo Miloš | |
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Ustashe uniform | |
| Birth name | Ljubomir Miloš |
| Born | 25 February 1919 Bosanski Šamac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 20 August 1948 (aged 29) Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Allegiance |  |
| Years of service | 1941–45 |
| Commands held | Commandant of Jasenovac concentration camp and Lepoglava concentration camp |
Ljubomir "Ljubo" Miloš (25 February 1919 – 20 August 1948) was a
Early life
Miloš was born in
World War II
On 6 April 1941,
Miloš arrived in
Miloš was transferred to the Đakovo concentration camp in early 1942, but returned to Jasenovac and reassumed the position of camp commander in the spring.[1] He seemed to compete with the other commanding officers in the camp to see who could torture and kill the most inmates.[8] Miloš often dressed in a white robe and pretended to be a doctor in front of sick inmates. He would sometimes take those applying to be hospitalized, line them up against a wall and slit their throats with a slaughtering knife.[9] He seemed "very proud" of this "ritual slaughter of the [Jews]...".[10] Witness Milan Flumiani recalled:
[As] soon as the seventeen of us arrived at Jasenovac, Ustaše beat us with rifle butts and took us to the Brick Factory, where Ljubo Miloš had already lined up two groups, while we arrived as a special third group. Maričić asked Ljubo Miloš, "who should I aim at first?", and Miloš replied, "where there’s more of them", and both of them pointed automatic rifles at the 40 men from the first two groups and shot them all. After that, he asked the first man from our group why he came here, and when that man replied that he was guilty of being born a Serb, he shot him on the spot. Then he picked out Laufer, a lawyer from Zagreb, and asked him what he was, and when he replied, he called him out like this — "I like lawyers very much, come closer" — and killed him right away. Then he found out that a third man was a doctor from Zagreb, and he ordered him to examine the first two men and to establish whether they were dead. When the doctor confirmed that they were, he turned to the fourth man and when he found out that he too was a doctor, he "forgave" the whole group.[11]
Miloš also raised a wolfhound and trained it to assault inmates.[12] During the summer of 1942, he travelled to Italy to complete a law enforcement course in Turin, but returned to the NDH after only ten days. In September, he returned to Jasenovac and assumed the role of assistant-camp commander. Troops under Miloš's command raided several villages near Jasenovac in October 1942, looted countless homes, arrested hundreds of Serb peasants and deported them to the camps. NDH authorities learned about the raids shortly after and arrested Miloš.[why?] He was not imprisoned long, as Luburić ordered his release on 23 December 1942. In January 1943, Miloš joined the Croatian Home Guard (Hrvatsko domobranstvo) and was stationed in Mostar. He returned to Zagreb in April 1943, where he remained until spring the following year. In September, he was named commander of Lepoglava prison.[13]
Capture and death
By the end of
Notes
- ^ a b c Dizdar et al. 1997, p. 276.
- ^ Tomasevich 1975, pp. 84–86.
- ^ Tomasevich 1975, pp. 105–108.
- ^ Tomasevich 2001, pp. 62–63, 234–241.
- ^ Tomasevich 2001, pp. 397–409.
- ^ Hoare 2007, pp. 20–24.
- ^ Maček 2003, p. 168.
- ^ Mojzes 2011, p. 57.
- ^ a b Cymet 2012, p. 337.
- ^ Aaron & Loftus 1998, p. 111.
- ^ State Commission 1946, p. 30.
- ^ Sidnik 1972, p. 154.
- ^ Dizdar et al. 1997, pp. 276–277.
- ^ a b c Dizdar et al. 1997, p. 277.
- ^ Burds 2007, p. 467.
- ^ Yeomans 2013a, p. 16.
- ^ Yeomans 2013b, p. 212.
- ^ Jasenovac Memorial Site 2014.
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- Burds, Jeffrey (2007). "Ethnicity, Memory and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet and East European Archives". In Blouin, Francis X.; Rosenberg, William G. (eds.). Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar. ISBN 978-0-4720-3270-9.
- Cymet, David (2012). History vs. Apologetics: The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church. ISBN 978-0-7391-3295-1.
- Dizdar, Zdravko; Grčić, Marko; ISBN 978-953-6377-03-9.
- ISBN 978-1-59017-673-3.
- Hoare, Marko Attila (2007). The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. ISBN 978-0-86356-953-1.
- Jasenovac Memorial Site (2014). "Ljubo Miloš". Jasenovac Memorial Site. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
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- State Commission (1946). Zločini u logoru Jasenovac [Atrocities in the Jasenovac concentration camp]. Zagreb: Zemaljska komisija Hrvatske za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača. HR-HDA/S - 1350.
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- Yeomans, Rory (2013b). "Eradicating "Undesired Elements"". In Yeomans, Rory; Weiss-Wendt, Anton (eds.). Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938–1945. ISBN 978-0-8032-4605-8.