Military Jurisdiction Over War Military Invalids in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1948 Cover Image

Војна надлежност над ратним војним инвалидима у Југославији 1945–1948.
Military Jurisdiction Over War Military Invalids in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1948

Author(s): Gojko Malović
Subject(s): Governance, Public Law, Military history, Political history, Military policy, Welfare systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: war invalids; Ministry of National Defense FNRJ - Disability Unit; Tito; Colonel-General I. Gošnjak; law; decisions; instructions; rules; report;

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, in 1945 in Yugoslavia, there was approximately 400,000 war military invalids and families of killed, dead and missing soldiers who had fought in the 1941–1945 Peoples Liberation War of Yugoslavia and previous wars fought by Serbia, Montenegro and Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A new Yugoslav revolutionary state regime formed during the People’¬s National Liberation War of Yugoslavia attempted, as a token of gratitude and in order to gain support of a massive social group on which to rely, to provide material ptotection for war invalids and families of killed, dead and missing soldiers in Yugoslavia. The passing and implementation of measures for the acquisition of status, rights and protection of war invalids and families of killed, dead and missing soldiers in Yugoslavia during the period from 1945 to 1948 was delegated to the military authorities, starting with the Ministry od National Defense to the regional army unit headquarters and the military and territorial commands of the Yugoslav Army authorities. The Yugoslav military authorities held jurisdiction over the war invalids and families of killed, dead and missing soldiers under the Law on War Military Invalids of 1946. Until the end of 1946, the Yugoslav military authorities carried out mainly organizational preparations: establishment of the military invalids agencies all over Yugoslavia and passing of the regulations necessary for their work on protection of the war military invalids and families protected under the Law. The measures of providing protection of war military invalids and families protected under the Law were carried out and to the greatest extent completed during the period between 1947 and 1948, primarily by resolving the cases of status acquisitions. The acquisitions of the status of a war military invalids and a families protected under the Law during the above period was a prerequisite for a full and life-long protection and social security. Because most of the war military invalids and families protected under the Law received the positive resolutions on their status and due to the deterioration of relatonship between Yugoslavia and USSR, by the autumn of 1948 the jurisdiction over war military invalids and families protected under the Law was transferred from the military invalid agencies to the civil authorities of social welfare all over Yugoslavia.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 114-143
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Serbian