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Ante Pavelić

Founder of the Ustaše and dictator of the Independent State of Croatia.

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Ante Pavelić

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Ante Pavelić was a Croatian politician who founded the Ustaše movement in 1929 and became dictator of the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945.[1] He was born on 14 July 1889 in Bradina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and worked as a lawyer before entering politics.[2][3] Pavelić's regime persecuted Serbs, Jews, and Romani, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths.[1][4]

Adolf Hitler meets Ante Pavelić.1941
Adolf Hitler meets Ante Pavelić.1941. Image: Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Key facts and history

He married Maria Lovrenčević on 12 August 1922 in Zagreb.[5] The Ustaše established terrorist training camps in Italy and Hungary with financial help from Mussolini.[6][7] A French court sentenced Pavelić to death in absentia, but Mussolini sheltered him and imprisoned him for only two years.[2] After the war, Pavelić fled to Austria and then Argentina, where he served as a security advisor to Juan Perón.[8]

Adolf hitler ante pavelic 2
Adolf hitler ante pavelic 2. Image: Unknown author · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

He died in his bed on 28 December 1959 at age 70.[2][1] After King Alexander declared a dictatorship on 6 January 1929, Pavelić fled to Austria on the night of 19/20 January 1929, and later moved to Italy where he founded the Ustaše movement.[3][9][10] Pavelić ordered the assassination of King Alexander in December 1933; the king was eventually killed in Marseille on 9 October 1934.[11][12] Pavelić returned from Italy, adopted the title Poglavnik, and assumed control of the puppet government.[4]

Adolf hitler ante pavelic
Adolf hitler ante pavelic. Image: Heinrich Hoffmann · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

What the research sources say

A 2022 article describes Pavelić as a "genocidal Croatian ruler responsible for the deaths of nearly one million people"[2] The same source states that Pavelić helped orchestrate the murder of over 700,000 Jews, Romani, and Serbs during World War II.[2] According to this account, Pavelić declared that "all enemies, all Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, should be slaughtered" while speaking to an Ustaše student group.[2] Nazi spies reported on Pavelić and the Ustaše, describing their actions as "bestial"[2]

Adolf hitler ante pavelic walk
Adolf hitler ante pavelic walk. Image: Unknown author · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Pavelić hid safely in Argentina protected by the Perón regime until 1957, when he was shot several times in the stomach by a Serb partisan.[2] Pavelić set up the Jasenovac concentration camp, where he gathered minority groups for slaughter.[2]

Ante Pavelic Parlament
Ante Pavelic Parlament. Image: Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ante Pavelic's signature
Ante Pavelic's signature. Image: Ante Pavelić · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tomasevich 2001, p. 351–352; Glenny 2001, p. 497–500; Hoare 2006, p. 20–24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "Ante Pavelić, the Unhinged Croatian Dictator Who Was Too 'Bestial' Even for the Nazis", 20 September 2022. facts only, no text reused. allthatsinteresting.com
  3. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ustaša"; Tomasevich 1975, p. 10; Tomasevich 2001, p. 351–352; Glenny 2001, p. 497–500 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Žerjavić 1993, p. 7; Hoare 2006, p. 20–24; Glenny 2001, p. 497–500; Hoare 2006, p. 20–24; Glenny 2001, p. 497–500; Hoare 2006, p. 20–24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dizdar Grčić Ravlić Stuparić 1997, p. 306 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pavlowitch 2008, p. 4; Glenny 2001, p. 497–500 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pavlowitch 2008, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ante Pavelić, the Unhinged Croatian Dictator Who Was Too 'Bestial' Even for the Nazis", 20 September 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dizdar Grčić Ravlić Stuparić 1997, p. 306; Matković 2002, p. 10; Ramet 2006, p. 114–115 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matković 2002, p. 10; Tomasevich 2001, p. 351–352 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matković 2002, p. 10 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Ante Pavelić" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tomasevich 2001, p. 351–352; Tomasevich 2001, p. 351–352 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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