Ratko Parežanin

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Ratko Parežanin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ратко Парежанин ; born February 24, 1898 in Konjic ; † May 20, 1981 in Munich ) was a Yugoslav MP , founding member of the fascist Serbian ZBOR party and writer . During the Second World War he worked as a journalist and as a high-ranking functionary of the fascist Serbian Volunteer Corps (SFK) a collaborator with National Socialist Germany .

Life

Parežanin was born as the son of the Serbian Orthodox priest Vidak Parežanin and his wife Mileva. As a member of the revolutionary organization Mlada Bosna , the minor Parežanin was imprisoned in the prison of Arad (Romania) after the assassination attempt in Sarajevo and then sent to the Italian front during the First World War . After a short time he came to Zagreb for treatment because of illness , where he remained until the end of the war.

He graduated from six grades at grammar schools in Mostar and Belgrade and finally studied literature at the Philosophical Faculty of Belgrade. In 1924 Parežanin was appointed press attaché of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Vienna . In the elections to the Yugoslav National Assembly in 1927 he was elected a member of the list of the Radical People's Party . From 1929 to 1933 Parežanin was again in the diplomatic service in Vienna and then worked in the Central Press Office in Belgrade. He was one of the most important initiators, founder and director of the Balkan Institute in Belgrade, where he worked from 1934 to 1941.

After the conquest of Yugoslavia in 1941 , Parežanin was briefly imprisoned by the German occupying forces during the Second World War . As a signatory of the appeal to the Serbian nation (88th out of 546th) he condemned the resistance of the communist Tito partisans against the occupation. During the Serbian collaboration government of Milan Nedić (1941-1944) he served in the armed arm of the fascist ZBOR party, the Serbian Volunteer Corps (SFK) as head of the education department, which was responsible for the political education of soldiers. As editor-in-chief of the Serbian collaboration newspaper Naša borba (Our Struggle), Parežanin wrote in 1941:

“Pobednički Veliki Nemački Rajh preko generala Nedića pružio je ruku Srbiji. Na tu ruku uprte su oči celog Srpstva. Srbija mora tu ruku da što čvršće i toplije primi. "

“The victorious great German Empire shook hands with Serbia through General Nedić. The eyes of Serbs are fixed on this hand. Serbia must receive this hand strongly and warmly. "

In the same year about the Jews :

“Odmah posle svetskog rata, 1918, u Beograd je nagrnuo ološ sa svih strana, ološ politički, socijalni, 'privredni'. Šta je sve taj ološ za preko dvadeset godina radio u našoj prestonici, svima nam je dobro poznato. [...] Nikad jevreji ne bi stekli onaj strahoviti uticaj u našem privrednom i javnom životu, da nisu našli pomagače, jatake i najamnike u našem 'narodnom' društvu. [...] Taj pretsednik Narodne Skupštine za svog jevrejina izdejstvovao je čak od ministra inostranih dela da postane 'ataše specijal' [...] Jedan ministar držao je jevrejina za počasnog konzula [...] I ne su ki profesori uni . [...] Ovi naši ljudi bili su isto što i jevreji, BILI SU GORI OD JEVREJA! [...] Inače, sva naša borba bila bi ne samo neobjectivna nego i bezuspešna, utoliko pre što se deca mnogih glavnih jevrejskih jataka i pomagača iz našeg 'narodnog' društva nalaze danas na drugom jevrejská plan drugoj busiji - opet zajedno sa jevrejima i pod senkom jevrejskih idola. "

“Immediately after the World War, in 1918, the scum from all sides gathered in Belgrade, political scum, social, 'economic'. We all know well what this scrap has been doing in the capital for over twenty years. [...] The Jews would never have gained this enormous influence in our economic and public life if they had not found accomplices, fences and mercenaries in our 'national' society. [...] This president of the National Assembly who even brought his Jews to the Foreign Ministry to become 'special attaché' [...] A minister kept a Jew as an honorary consul [...] and some university professors did the same. [...] These people of ours were also like the Jews, THEY WERE WORSE THAN THE JEWS! [...] Otherwise all our struggle would not only be unrealistic, but also unsuccessful, because the children of many leading Jewish accomplices and supporters from our 'national' society are following today the second devastating Jewish plan - in the forest or in another ambush - again together with the Jews and in the shadow of the Jewish idol . "

After the collapse of the Serbian vassal state in 1944, Parežanin went into political exile in West Germany . He worked for decades and was the editor of the fascist newspaper Iskra , published in Munich by exiled Serbs , which still glorifies the deeds of the Serbian fascist leader Dimitrije Ljotić , the ZBOR party and the SFK. Parežanin was one of the most important employees of the newspaper and book publisher. He was the founder and editor of the magazine Der Antikommunist (1955–1957).

He died in exile in Munich in 1981 and was buried in the Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Osnabrück .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jevreji u Engleskoj [The Jews in England] . In: Obnova . April 7, 1943.
  • Književna pisma: Iz zapisa i beležaka jednog drvodelje [The letter to the editor: From the writings and notes of a carpenter] . 1947.
  • Association of the Free Press (ed.): Communism: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow . Munich 1965.
  • Dimitrije Ljotić u revoluciji i ratu [Dimitrije Ljotić in Revolution and War] . Iskra, 1967.
  • Drugi svetski rat i Dimitrije V. Ljotić [The Second World War and Dimitrije V. Ljotić] . Iskra, 1971.
  • Mlada Bosna i Prvi svetski rat [The Mlada Bosna and the First World War] . Iskra, 1974.
  • Moja misija i Crnoj gori [My Mission and Montenegro] . Iskra, 1974.
  • Za balkansko jedinstvo: Osnivanje, program i rad Balkanskog instituta u Beogradu (1934-1941) [For the Balkan unity: establishment, program and work of the Balkan Institute in Belgrade (1934-1941)] . Iskra, 1976.
  • The assassins: Young Bosnia in the fight for freedom . L. Jevtić, Munich 1976.
  • Gavrilo Princip u Beogradu: Mlada Bosna i Prvi svetski rat [Gavrilo Princip in Belgrade: The Mlada Bosna and the First World War] . Catena mundi doo, Belgrade 2013, ISBN 978-86-6343-012-9 (probably a new edition of his book from 1974).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philip J. Cohen: Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History (=  Eastern European studies . No. 2 ). 4th edition. Texas A&M University Press, 1999, pp. 140 .
  2. ↑ Olivera Milosavljević: Potisnuta istina: Kolaboracija u Srbiji 1941-1944 [The suppressed truth: Collaboration in Serbia 1941-1944] . Ed .: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji. Beograd 2006, ISBN 86-7208-129-3 , pp. 399 .
  3. ↑ Ratko Parežanin: Srpski barjak [The Serbian flag] . In: Naša borba . September 7, 1941. Quoted from Olivera Milosavljević: Potisnuta istina: Kolaboracija u Srbiji 1941–1944 . Ed .: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji. Beograd 2006, ISBN 86-7208-129-3 , pp. 172 .
  4. ↑ Ratko Parežanin: Isto što i jevreji gori od jevreja! In: Naša borba . September 28, 1941. Quoted from Olivera Milosavljević: Potisnuta istina: Kolaboracija u Srbiji 1941–1944 . Ed .: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji. Beograd 2006, ISBN 86-7208-129-3 , pp. 184 .
  5. ↑ 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 . (“This group [ZBOR] also started to publish relatively early after 1945. In the person of the former director of the Balkan Institute in Belgrade and a close colleague of King Alexander I [meaning Parežanin], the organization is ideally and organizationally well organized An internationally recognized leader. ").
  6. ^ Ion Emilian et al.: Fifteen Years of the Association of the Free Press . Ed .: Board of Directors Association d. Free press e. V. Munich 1962, p. 21 .
personal data
SURNAME Parežanin, Ratko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Парежанин, Ратко (Serbian Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founding member of the fascist ZBOR party, writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Konjic
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1981
Place of death Munich