Camp Officials and Their Fate
Some of the camp officials and their post-war fate are listed below:
- Eugen Dido Kvaternik was head of all camps in the NDH territory until 1943. He emigrated to Argentina, where he died in a traffic accident.
- Andrija Artukovic was the creator and signatory of most of the decrees pursuant to which genocide and acts of terror were carried out against the population of the Independent State of Croatia, on the grounds of racial, religious, national or ideological affiliation. From October 1942 to April 1943 he was Minister of Religion and Education. Later, he fled to the USA, from which he was extradited to Yugoslavia and tried by them.
- Miroslav Majstorović, an Ustaše infamous for his command periods in Jasenovac and Stara-Gradiška, named "Fra Satana" (Father Satan) for his cruelty and Christian upbringing, was captured by the Yugoslav communist forces, tried and executed in 1946.
- Maks Luburić was the commandant of the Ustaška Odbrana, or Ustaše defense, thus being held responsible for all crimes committed under his supervision in Jasenovac, which he visited two-three times a month or so, fled to Spain, but was assassinated by a Yugoslav agent in 1969.
- Dinko Šakić fled to Argentina, but was eventually extradited, tried and sentenced, in 1999, by Croatian authorities to 20 years in prison, in 2008 he died in prison.
- Petar Brzica was an Ustaša officer who, on the night of 29 August 1942, allegedly slaughtered over 1,360 people. Brzica's fellow Ustaše also took part in that crime, as part of a competition of throat cutting. Brzica is also known for having killed an inmate by beating him, on the departure of administrator Ivica Matković, in March 1943. Brzica's post-war fate is unknown.
- Hinko Dominik Picilli's fate is also unknown.
- Ivica Brkljačić, commandant, was executed.
- Tomo Sabol, 1942 Ust. Poručnik (Obrana), commandant of the women’s prison at Stara Gradiška concentration camp
- Nada Šakić was guard in the concentration camp Stara Gradiška, a subcamp of the concentration camp Jasenovac.
- Ljubo Milos (ex-second in command of the Jasenovac concentration camp and former commander of the Lepoglava prison, executed after the war, by Partisans.
- Ivica Matkovic was executed by the Partisans.
Read more about this topic: Jasenovac Concentration Camp
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