The Issue of the Number of Victims of Ustasha and German Terror at the „Vojnović” Execution Grounds in Bjelovar During the Period of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) Cover Image

Pitanje broja žrtava ustaškog i njemačkog terora na bjelovarskom gubilištu Vojnović tijekom razdoblja Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (1941.-1945.)
The Issue of the Number of Victims of Ustasha and German Terror at the „Vojnović” Execution Grounds in Bjelovar During the Period of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945)

Author(s): Željko Karaula
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Military policy, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Matica hrvatska Daruvar
Keywords: The Independent State of Croatia; terror; shooting; victims; Vojnović; Ustasha; Germans;

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives a brief outline of the Ustasha and German terror in Bjelovar during the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) with a focus on the issue of researching the victims who were shot on the Vojnović plateau. Although the exhumation of the murdered people was carried out after the war, it is obvious that it did not include the total number of victims. Since then, somewhat different numbers of victims have appeared in the Bjelovar public, from a few hundred to as many as 909 victims. An official stance on the subject has never been reached in historiography

  • Issue Year: VI/2022
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 186-211
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Croatian