Banja Luka massacre

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The plaque with the names of the Serbs murdered in the 1942 massacre.

The Banja Luka massacre was a war crime during World War II . In the area of Banja Luka , 2,300  Serbs - mostly women and old men and 500 children - were killed on February 7, 1942. The massacre was carried out by units of the fascist Ustaše led by Josip Mišlov and the Roman Catholic priest , military chaplain and Franciscan Miroslav Filipović .

history

In 1941 Banja Luka was occupied by the forces of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which started the persecution of Serbs, Jews , Roma and opponents of the regime. The largest massacre in the town's municipality took place on February 7, 1942, when Ustaše units under the leadership of Josip Mišlov and Miroslav Filipović murdered 2,300 Serbs, mostly women and old men, including 500 children, with naked weapons.

Filipovic joined the Ustaše as a priest in January 1942 and became its military chaplain. Because of his involvement in this massacre, he was expelled from the Franciscan Order on April 28, 1942 . He was then charged by a German court martial with "excessive crimes" that sparked a riot. Ustasha General Vjekoslav Luburić , however, achieved his release. After the war, Filipović was charged with war crimes in Zagreb and sentenced to death by hanging , while wearing the habit of the Franciscan order.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lazar Lukajić: fratri i Ustaše Kolju . Belgrade 2005. List of murdered Serbs on pages 341 to 402.
  2. ↑ a b c Vladimir Dedijer : Jasenovac - The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican . Ahriman, 1988, p. 166 .
  3. ↑ Jure Krišto: Katolička crkva i Nezavisna Država Hrvatska 1941-1945 . 1998, p. 223 .
  4. ^ Sabrina P. Ramet: The three Yugoslavias: state-building and legitimation, 1918-2005 . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2006. Page 122 ff.
  5. ^ A b Zeev Milo: In the satellite state of Croatia: an odyssey of survival 1941-1945 . Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2002. Page 71
  6. ↑ Randall Meadow, Giuseppe Grillo: The 15th City . 2011. Page 127 f.
  7. ↑ Ladislaus Hory, Martin Broszat: The Croatian Ustascha State, 1941–1945 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1964. Page 173
  8. ^ Edmond Paris: Genocide in satellite Croatia, 1941-1945: a record of racial and religious persecutions and massacres , American Institute for Balkan Affairs, 1961, p. 190