Ustaška nadzorna služba

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Vjekoslav Luburić (behind) with an SS-Sturmbannführer in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp (June 1942).

Ustaška nadzorna služba (Ustasha Control Service), or US for short , was the state police and secret service of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a vassal state of the Axis powers . This organization of the Ustasha was founded on August 16, 1941 and headed by Dido Kvaternik and lasted until January 1943. According to the instructions of the heads of state Ante Pavelić the US should monitor the overall work of the Ustasha and the civil servants.

The UNS was also responsible for counter-espionage and the persecution of political opposition and ethnic minorities. Department III was responsible for the establishment, control and organization of the concentration camps in the NDH state; the department was headed by Mijo Babić until his death in 1941 , after which Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić took over department III.

The UNS was dissolved in early 1943 and transferred to the new security service GRAVSIGUR ( Glavno ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost ).

organization

Structure of the UNS when it was founded on August 16, 1941 into the following offices:

  • I Ustaško redarstvo ( Ustaša Police) - responsible u. a. for the deportation of communists , Serbs , Jews and other opponents of the regime
  • II Ustaška obavještajna služba ( Ustaša Intelligence Service) - responsible for investigations and arrests
  • III Ustaška obrana (Ustasha Defense) - military police formation for the establishment and organization of concentration camps
  • IV Ustaški osobni ured ( Ustaša Personal Office)

Later the UNS was reorganized several times and consisted of up to 15 offices. Since the competencies were not clearly delimited, disputes arose between the offices.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): 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. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 314.
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. The persecution and murder of the European Jews . Edited by Eberhard Jäckel , Peter Longerich , Julius H. Schoeps . Vol. II. Argon, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-87024-300-7 , p. 824.
  3. ↑ Zakonska odredba o ustaškoj nadzornoj službi , August 16, 1941