O ZLOČINIMA CRNE LEGIJE NA PODRUČJU KUPRESA U LJETO 1942. GODINE
THE CRIMES OF THE BLACK LEGION (CRNA LEGIJA) IN THE KUPRES AREA IN SUMMER 1942
Author(s): Davor MarijanSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Military policy, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Black Legion crimes; Kupres area; 1942; Symbol of evil; War crimes; Village of Vukovsko; Blagaj; Donji Malovan;
Summary/Abstract: As an elite unit of the Armed Forces of the NDH, the Black Legion had been treated in the farmer Yugoslav historiography and historical literature as a symbol of the worst evil. To the war crimes it had committed, there had been added those that it had not commit or did not happen at all. We have four examples in summer 1942 from the Kupres valley, of which three enter the domain of "cleansing". The alleged crimes in the villages Vukovska on 27th August and Blagaj on 29th/30th August 1942 are disputed by the reports of the 4th Montenegrin brigade, that had been in those villages. Damages in Donji Malovan on 28th July that are mentioned in several documents are based on hear-say transmission a few days after the event occurred. The Stale Commission for Investigation of the Crimes registered for that day only burning of several persons and arson of farming buildings. There are no documents for the fourth crime in Begovo Selo from the beginning of August; historians do not mention it, while the Stale Commission for Investigation of the Crimes does mention it.
Journal: Časopis za suvremenu povijest
- Issue Year: 32/2000
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 317-331
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Croatian