Stijepo Peric

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Stijepo Perić (born October 12, 1896 in Broce near Ston , † June 12, 1954 in Buenos Aires ) was a Yugoslav lawyer and politician ( HSP ) as well as a diplomat and foreign minister of the Independent State of Croatia .

Life

Perić was born on October 12, 1896 in Broce near Ston in Dalmatia . He attended high schools in Dubrovnik , Kotor and Split . After graduating from high school , he studied law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb . As a lawyer, he settled in Dubrovnik, where he opened a law firm. From a young age he was extremely Croatian and joined the fight against Yugoslav unitarianism and the centralized Vidovdan constitution . When he was elected to the National Assembly in 1927, he was put on the electoral list of the Croatian bloc in the constituency of Dubrovnik , which consisted of candidates from the federalist Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the Nationalist Party of Law (HSP) . He was on the electoral list for the HSP together with Ante Pavelić , but was not elected as a member of parliament because the HSS won the elections in southern Dalmatia.

After the Balkan campaign the Wehrmacht 1941 Perić was 1941-1943 Ambassador of the Ustasha -Staats in Rome . After Italy surrendered, he was Foreign Minister from November 5, 1943 to May 2, 1944 . Perić was dismissed from the post of Foreign Minister by Ante Pavelić after Perić protested in a sharp exchange of notes with Berlin against the massacre of Otok committed by the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division “Prinz Eugen” . At the 7th Nuremberg trial of the war criminals , the number of victims of the massacre of March 28, 1944 was put at 2,014 deaths in 22 villages. Croatian men, women and children were then downright massacred and the villages plundered. Then Perić lived in Switzerland and Slovakia . At the end of April 1945 he went to Italy and stayed in various Allied camps. In May 1945 he was interrogated by the Americans and released from custody; he is also said to have had a letter from the Red Cross certifying that he was helping persecuted Jews. Perić fled one of the camps in 1947 and later lived in Argentina until his death .

literature

  • Slaven Ravlić: PERIĆ, Stijepo . 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. 316 f . (Croatian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau : A general in the twilight: "The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau " , Volume 76, p. 383.
  2. ^ Vinko Nikolić :: Hrvatska revija: "jubilarni zbornik 1951–1975" , Hrvatska revija, 1976, p. 178.
  3. ↑ Governments of the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)
  4. ↑ Klaus Schmider : A detour to a war of extermination? The partisan war in Yugoslavia, 1941–1944 . In: RD Müller, HE Volkmann (Ed.): The Wehrmacht: Myth and Reality . Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56383-1 , p. 917 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Schmider: The Yugoslav Theater of War (January 1943 to May 1945) in: Karl-Heinz Frieser (Ed.): The Eastern Front 1943/44 - The War in the East and on the Secondary Fronts , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978 -3-421-06235-2 , p. 1030.
  6. ^ Martin Seckendorf; Günter Keber; u. a .; Federal Archives (Ed.): The Occupation Policy of German Fascism in Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Italy and Hungary (1941–1945) Hüthig, Berlin 1992; Decker / Müller, Heidelberg 2000. Series: Europa unterm Hakenkreuz Volume 6, ISBN 3-8226-1892-6 , pp. 59, 320 f.
  7. ↑ Bernd Robionek: Croatian Political Refugees and the Western Allies . 2nd Edition. OEZ Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940452-67-2 , 22. Closing Time: Bringing the War Criminal Issue to an End, p. 244 f . (Allied intelligence report (KV 2/2308, 1118a) of May 20, 1947.).
personal data
SURNAME Perić, Stijepo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian Foreign Minister (1943–1944)
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ston , Dalmatia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1954
Place of death Buenos Aires