Državna komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača

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The Državna komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača (State Commission for the Establishment of the Crimes of the Occupiers and their Helpers), DKZ for short , was a state commission of communist Yugoslavia , which had the mandate to collect those responsible and evidence of war crimes committed in the World War II were committed by the German and Italian occupying powers and their collaborators .

As a federal authority, the DKZ had its seat in Belgrade and the corresponding commissions at the level of the Yugoslav republics that supported it. Until its dissolution on 12 April 1948, the DKZ had decisions about crimes of 17,175 members of the occupation forces and 49,245 members of the collaboration (especially members of the Croatian military and officials of the Independent State of Croatia , members of the Slovene Home Guard and Serbian and Montenegrin Chetniks created) .

history

The DKZ was founded on November 30, 1943 based on the Soviet model (see Extraordinary State Commission ) by resolutions of the AVNOJ . Your job should be to describe war crimes and include information such as: B. to collect personal details of the perpetrators, victims, witnesses as well as evidence and clues in order to make so-called decisions.

Between February and December 2020, national commissions and a provincial commission for Vojvodina and two regional commissions for Kosovo and Sandžak were established for each of the six Yugoslav republics . Subsequently, commissions at district, district and municipal level as well as 28 inquiry commissions for “crimes of particular extent and specific character” were established. Thus the organizational hierarchy comprised more than 1,600 commissions with a workforce whose competence was controversial.

The work of the commissions has been used for indictment in political trials, extradition requests of suspected war criminals abroad, and communist propaganda and historiography. Until Tito's death , doubts about the work of the commissions and the number of war victims were severely punished.

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literature

  • Martina Grahek Ravančić: Ustrojavanje organa nove vlasti: Državna / Zemaljska komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača - organizacija, ustroj, djelovanje . In: Hrvatski institut za povijest (ed.): Historijski zbornik . No. 1 . Zagreb 2013, p. 149–172 (Croatian, srce.hr ).
  • Martina Grahek Ravančić: Narod će in suditi. Zemaljska komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača za Zagreb 1944–1947. Ed .: Hrvatski institut za povijest. Zagreb 2013, ISBN 978-953-7840-20-4 (History of the Commission of the Republic of Croatia).
  • Srećko M. Džaja : The Political Reality of Yugoslavism (1918–1991) . Oldenbourg, 2002, ISBN 3-486-56659-8 , 2.3 Settlement with political opponents, p. 93 f .
  • Miodrag Đ. Zečević, Jovan P. Popović (ed.): Državna komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača iz Drugog svetskog rata (=  Dokumenti istorije Jugoslavije . Volume 3 ). Beograd 1999 ( znaci.net [PDF]).