Iskra (Serbian language newspaper)

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Iskra / Искра

description Serbian newspaper with book publisher
language Serbian
publishing company Iskra ( Serbia )
Headquarters Novi Sad
First edition June 15, 1949
founder Jakov "Jaša" Ljotić
(1895–1974)
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Before that, Santrač
Web link www.novo-videlo.com/iskra/
Article archive www.novo-videlo.com/iskra/
ISSN (print) 2466-4111

Iskra (The Spark), and Serbian - Cyrillic Искра , subtitles: Ljudi traže slobodu, a sloboda ljude (People are looking for freedom and the freedom of looking for people), is since 1949 continuously published Serbian monthly magazine with book publishing .

The fascist newspaper was founded in Germany as an emigre newspaper by exiled Serbs who were organized as supporters of the Serbian fascist leader Dimitrije Ljotić (1891-1945) in the ZBOR party and its armed arm, the Serbian Volunteer Corps (SFK).

The first editions of the newspaper were already published in the DP camp in Lingen , and shortly afterwards they were sent to Munich and worldwide for the next few decades . In the 1950s and 1960s it was the leading newspaper in the Serbian language. The publishing activity of the exile publishing house continued until at least the 1980s or until the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia .

Since 2016 Iskra is no longer published in the Serbian diaspora , but in Novi Sad . In Iskra's publications, which are also accessible online, the deeds and people of the SFK continue to be glorified.

history

After the collapse of the Serbian vassal state under the collaboration government of General Milan Nedić (1878–1946), leading functionaries of the followers of Dimitrije Ljotić, organized in the ZBOR, were smuggled through several camps in Italy ( Forlì , Eboli ).

Then the ZBOR leadership came to Germany and stayed in Munsterlager from 1947 to 1948 and in Lingen (Ems) from 1948 to 1949 , where the newspaper first appeared. At the end of 1949, the ZBOR functionaries settled in Schleissheim near Munich. Here she continued the monthly newspaper she had started in Lingen and which went to up to 40 countries around the world. This royalist, Serbian-Orthodox, nationalist or fascist and conservative-oriented group of heirs in exile probably had the richest flow of publications as well as a globally developed press and information system. 1951 addresses and names are given for reference in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, England, Italy, Canada, France, Chile, Switzerland and New Zealand. Sales to Austria, Venezuele, Peru, Sweden etc. were added later.

The owner, publisher and editor-in-chief was Jakov Ljotić (1895–1974), called Jaša, the brother of the fascist leader Dimitrije Ljotić. The 79-year-old was strangled with his tie on July 8, 1974 in his Munich apartment . He had announced that he would write about Tito's prisons. The Yugoslav secret service UDBA is said to have been responsible for his murder . As early as April 17, 1969, Iskra editor Ratko Obradović (1919–1969) was allegedly killed by the UDBA near his apartment in Munich-Hasenbergl on the street with five shots in the chest, neck and head. Obradović was a former functionary of the fascist ZBOR party and an officer of its armed arm, the SFK, who had fled into exile in 1945.

From the late 1980s to 2015, the newspaper was based in Birmingham and partly with editorial offices in Northampton and other locations in England , under editor-in-chief Vladimir Ljotić († March 8, 2017), the son of Dimitrije Ljotić.

Iskra is currently based in Novi Sad ( Serbia ).

Other responsible persons

With the September 1949 edition, Ismaninger Strasse 9 / I in Munich was named as the editorial address of the newspaper and Branko Begović as the publisher and editor-in-chief . The logo was also changed. In 1951, in addition to Begović, Ratko Parežanin (1898–1981), Ratko Obradović (1919–1969), Slobodan Stanković were named as members of the editorial committee and as editor Jakov Ljotić .

In addition, the Iskra publishing house, as well as the Serbian-language Munich publisher Svečanik , was operated by the theological writer Dimitrije Najdanović (1897–1986) and the historian and writer Đoko Slijepčevič (1907–1993), both of Ljotić's employees and officials in the Serbian Milan Nedić's collaboration government. The Serbian Orthodox priest and former SFK military chaplain Aleksa Todorović (1899–1990) also worked.

program

The publisher's program included regular newspapers, periodicals and memoirs .

In addition to the collected works of the fascist Ljotić, Iskra published the works of the controversial Serbian Orthodox Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956), who was friends and familiar with Ljotić, through the 1960s and 1970s .

Against the official communist representation of Yugoslavia, the publications of Iskra tried in particular to justify the acts of the Prime Minister of the Serbian collaboration government Milan Nedić and the Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović (1893–1946).

Book publications (selection)

  • Dimitrije V. Ljotić: Sabrana dela Dimitrija Ljotića: Govori i članci [The Collected Works of Dimitrije Ljotić: Speeches and Articles] . No. 1 , 1948 (6 numbers up to 1975).
  • Dimitrije V. Ljotić: Svetska revolucija [The world revolution] . 1949.
  • Mirko Kosić: Grobari Jugoslavije [The Gravedigger of Yugoslavia] . 1951.
  • William H. Smyth: Aid for the Yugoslav people - but not for Tito's dictatorship [Aid for the Yugoslav people - but not for Tito's dictatorship] . 1954.
  • Dimitrije Ljotić, Tanasije Dinić u. a .: Zapisi iz dobrovoljačke borbe [notes from the voluntary fight] . tape 1 , 1955 (5 vols. To 1959).
  • Đoko Slijepčevič: Pitanje Makedonske pravoslavne crkve u Jugoslaviji [The question of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Yugoslavia] . 1959.
  • Dimitrije V. Ljotic: Dimitrije Ljotić u revoluciji i ratu [Dimitrije Ljotić in Revolution and War] . 1961.
  • Ratko Obradović: The tragedy in Kragujevac in the light of a document . 1961.
  • Đoko Slijepčevič: Istorija srpske pravoslavne crkve [The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church ] . tape 1 , 1962 (Vol. 2: 1966 & Vol. 3: 1986).
  • Dimitrije V. Ljotić: Zakoni života [The Laws of Life] . 1963.
  • Stanislav Krakov: General Milan Nedić . tape 1 , 1963 (Vol. 2: 1968).
  • Srpski dobrovoljci: Povodom 25-godišnjice njihovog osnivanja [The Serbian Volunteers  : On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of their foundation] . 1966.
  • Jaša V. Ljotić: Služba u vojsci i učešće u ratovima [Service in the army and participation in wars] . 1967 (memories of Dimitrije Ljotić's brother).
  • Vladislav Stakić: Moji razgovori sa Musolinijem: Osovinske sile i Jugoslavija [My conversations with Mussolini  : The Axis Powers and Yugoslavia] . 1967.
  • Lazo M. Kostić: Etnički odnosi Bosne i Hercegovine [The ethnic relationship in Bosnia and Herzegovina] . 1967 (By claiming that all Bosniaks are Serbs).
  • Borivoje Karapandžić: Spomenica Srpskih dobrovoljaca 1941–1971 [The Memorial Book of the Serbian Volunteers 1941–1971] . Ed .: The Union of the Yugoslav-American Associations. Cleveland, Ohio 1971 (printed by Iskra in Munich).
  • Ratko Parežanin: Drugi svetski rat i Dimitrije V. Ljotić [The Second World War and Dimitrije V. Ljotić] . 1971.
  • Ljubica Ljotić: Memoari [memoirs] . 1973 (memories of Dimitrije Ljotić's wife).
  • Lazo M. Kostić: Sve su to laži i obmane: fraze i parole komunističke Jugoslavije [This is all lies and deceit: phrases and slogans of communist Yugoslavia] . 1975.
  • Đoko Slijepčevič: Jugoslavija uoči i za vreme Drugog svetskog rata [Yugoslavia before and during the Second World War] . 1978 ( online ).
  • Vladimir Vauhnik: Nevidljivi front: borba za očuvanje Jugoslavije [The Invisible Front: The Struggle for the Preservation of Yugoslavia] . 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iskra . 68th year, no. 1261 , May 10, 2017, p. Imprint, o. S ( online [PDF]).
  2. ^ Journal of Central European Affairs . 1956, p. 70 .
  3. ^ Jozo Tomasevic: The Chetniks . Stanford University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9 , pp. 89 , footnote 74 .
  4. ^ Paul Hockenos: Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism & the Balkan War . Cornell University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8014-4158-5 , pp. 119 : "Many of the fascist Ljotićevi, symphatizers of Nazi collaborator Dimitrije Ljotić, stayed on in Germany, particulary around Munich, where there operated their own publishing house and newspaper, Iskra (Spark)."
  5. ^ Institute for Journalism of the Free University of Berlin (ed.): Die Deutsche Presse: Newspapers and magazines . Duncker & Humblot, 1961, pp. 720 .
  6. ↑ John Birch Society (Ed.): Bulletin . The Society, 1967, p. 21 .
  7. ^ The South Slav Journal . tape 7 . Dositey Obradovich Circle., 1984, pp. 89 .
  8. ↑ Karl Hnilicka: The end in the Balkans 1944/45: The military evacuation of Yugoslavia by the German Wehrmacht . Musterschmidt-Verlag, Göttingen u. a. 1970, p. 24 f ., footnotes 28 and 29 .
  9. ↑ Iskra . 3rd year, no. 18 , May 1, 1951, p. 2 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Hans-Peter Rullmann: Murder Order from Belgrade: Documentation about the Belgrade murder machine . Ost-Dienst, Hamburg 1980, p. 26.
  11. ↑ Robert Welch: American Opinion . tape 21 , 1978, p. 16 .
  12. ↑ Marko Lopušina: Ubice u ime države [murder in the name of the state] . Agencija TEA BOOKS, 2014, ISBN 978-86-6329-189-8 .
  13. ↑ Ben Witter: One Thousand Pickpockets: Protocols from the Underworld (IV) . In: The time . No. 19/1969 , May 9, 1969 ( zeit.de ).
  14. ↑ Iskra . 49th year, no. 1040 , January 1, 1998, p. 31 ( online ).
  15. ↑ Iskra . 1st year, no. 4 , September 6, 1949, pp. 2 ( online ).
  16. ^ Jovan Byford: From "traitor" to "saint": Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in Serbian public memory . Ed .: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (=  Analysis of current trends in antisemitism . Volume 22 ). 2004, p. 12 .
  17. ↑ Historical magazine: special issue . No. 3 . R. Oldenbourg, 1962, p. 426 .