Mijo Babic

Mijo Babić with the later regicide Wlado Tschernosemski and his accomplice Zvonimir Pospišil (from left to right) during military training in a Ustaša camp (around 1934)

Mijo Babić (born September 6, 1903 in Nova Bukovica , Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia , Austria-Hungary ; † July 3, 1941 in Berkovići , Independent State of Croatia ), called Giovanni , was the representative of Department III of the Ustaša Control Service (UNS) for the establishment, control and organization of the concentration camps in the fascist " Independent State of Croatia (NDH)".

As a leading member of the fascist Ustaša , he played a key role in the terrorist measures against Serbs , Jews and Roma . Above all, he was responsible for the establishment of the Slana and Metajna concentration camps , both of which were located on the Adriatic island of Pag , near the city of the same name . They belonged to the most notorious Southeast European concentration and extermination camps , mainly because of the crimes against women and children committed in Metajna .

After his death in 1941, Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić took over Division III of the UNS.

literature

Zdravko Dizdar: BABIĆ, Mijo . In: Darko Stuparić (ed.): Tko je tko u NDH: Hrvatska 1941. – 1945 [Who is who in the NDH: Croatia 1941–1945] . Minerva, Zagreb 1997, p. 16 f . (Croatian).

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel - The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps - Volume 9 , p. 326, Verlag CH Beck - Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 .
^ Hans-Christian Petersen and Samuel Salzborn - Antisemitism in Eastern Europe: History and Present in Comparison , p. 70, Peter Lang AG - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59828-3 .
↑ Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel (editors), Angelika Königseder (editors): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9, labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps . Beck, Munich 2009, p. 314.

personal data
SURNAME	Babic, Mijo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Babić, Giovanni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian Ustaša camp officer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nova Bukovica
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1941
Place of death	Berkovići

[1] Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel - The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps - Volume 9 , p. 326, Verlag CH Beck - Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 .

[2] Hans-Christian Petersen and Samuel Salzborn - Antisemitism in Eastern Europe: History and Present in Comparison , p. 70, Peter Lang AG - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59828-3 .

[3] Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel (editors), Angelika Königseder (editors): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9, labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps . Beck, Munich 2009, p. 314.