Ljubo Miloš
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Ljubomir Miloš was an official of the Croatia
n World War II
regime. As an Ustaše
, he was the head of the Independent State of Croatia
secret service
(Tajna služba).
Miloš was also a commandant in the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp
.He was second in rank, under the administration of Ivica Matković
. He was a very sadistic and pathological commander. He did not tolerate escape attempts, for any of which he would order collective punishments in the hundreds. Miloš was often seen riding his horse, trampling and shooting inmates or killing emaciated inmates, who stretched their hands out for food, as they were fed with one meal of fodder made of cattle turnip.
Miloš pretended to be a doctor of medicine. Witness Flumiani Milan stated:
Additionally, whenever a transport of Jews came into the camp, Miloš would dress up as a physician, have the guards bring him the people who needed medical help, take them to an "ambulance", put them against a wall, and "with a strike of the knife cut the victim's throat, shear his ribs and slit open his belly." He was highly proud of this "ritual slaughter of the 'Yids' [Jews]"
Miloš also had other mental disorders, he grew a wolf-hound, "foxy" and taught it to assault inmates. He also educated an Ustase-youth member, Marijan and taught him to beat inmates and kill them. "Five Orthodox priests were led out... They were ordered to sing hymns... One of them, a man of over eighty... was immediately beaten with rifle butts... [O]ne of the Ustashi - a child of twelve years old - bent over the old man and took out his dagger. In a moment, he had cut off both the priest's ears. He turned grinning to his companions, saying: I'll show them at home tomorrow what sort of ears a Vlach priest has! The Ustashi seized the other four... Miloš set their beards on fire. Then, after such terrible tortures, they killed them."
In line with the Nazi heritage, Miloš was also very strict: he would view inmates who went to empty their bowls in large pits used as latrines, and would kill those who would pee even a few inches away from his liking, and he watched the weaker ones fall into the feces-polluted waters bellow. He even had a man who stole a cob of corn tied to a pillar, and poured water on him in the winter of 1941 or 1942, rendering him into a frozen statue.
Miloš was caught by the Yugoslav police (on 20 July 1947) after the war during an attempted rebellion, put on trial for the crimes he committed during the war, convicted to death, and executed
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
regime. As an Ustaše
Ustaše
The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...
, he was the head of the Independent State of Croatia
Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...
secret service
Secret service
A secret service describes a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data. The tasks and powers of a secret service can vary greatly from one country to another. For instance, a country may establish a secret service which has some...
(Tajna služba).
Miloš was also a commandant in the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...
.He was second in rank, under the administration of Ivica Matković
Ivica Matkovic
Ivica Matković was an Ustasha lieutenant colonel and the administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp between January 1942 and March 1943. During his tenure, most of the atrocities happened in the camp, and he was directly involved in the plannings and execution of those atrocities...
. He was a very sadistic and pathological commander. He did not tolerate escape attempts, for any of which he would order collective punishments in the hundreds. Miloš was often seen riding his horse, trampling and shooting inmates or killing emaciated inmates, who stretched their hands out for food, as they were fed with one meal of fodder made of cattle turnip.
Miloš pretended to be a doctor of medicine. Witness Flumiani Milan stated:
- "[as] soon as we arrived, the seventeen of us, to Jasenovac, Ustase beat us with rifle butts and took us to the Brick Factory, where Milos Ljubo had already lined up two groups, while wearrived as a special third group. Maricic asked Ljubo Milos, ‘Who should I aim at first?’ And Milos replied, ‘Where there’s more of them’, and both of them pointed automatic rifles at the forty men from the first two groups and shot them all.
- After that he asked the first man from our group why he came here, and when that man replied that he is guilty for being born a Serb, he shot him at the spot. Then he picked out Laufer, a lawyer from Zagreb, and asked him what he was, and when he replied, he called out him like this — ‘I like lawyers very much, come closer’ — and killed him right away.
- Then he found out that a third man was a doctor from Zagreb, and he ordered him to examine the first two men and to establish whether they were dead.
- When the doctor confirmed that they were, he turned to the fourth man and when he found out that he too was a doctor, he ‘forgave’ the whole group." (State Commission, pg. 30)
Additionally, whenever a transport of Jews came into the camp, Miloš would dress up as a physician, have the guards bring him the people who needed medical help, take them to an "ambulance", put them against a wall, and "with a strike of the knife cut the victim's throat, shear his ribs and slit open his belly." He was highly proud of this "ritual slaughter of the 'Yids' [Jews]"
Miloš also had other mental disorders, he grew a wolf-hound, "foxy" and taught it to assault inmates. He also educated an Ustase-youth member, Marijan and taught him to beat inmates and kill them. "Five Orthodox priests were led out... They were ordered to sing hymns... One of them, a man of over eighty... was immediately beaten with rifle butts... [O]ne of the Ustashi - a child of twelve years old - bent over the old man and took out his dagger. In a moment, he had cut off both the priest's ears. He turned grinning to his companions, saying: I'll show them at home tomorrow what sort of ears a Vlach priest has! The Ustashi seized the other four... Miloš set their beards on fire. Then, after such terrible tortures, they killed them."
In line with the Nazi heritage, Miloš was also very strict: he would view inmates who went to empty their bowls in large pits used as latrines, and would kill those who would pee even a few inches away from his liking, and he watched the weaker ones fall into the feces-polluted waters bellow. He even had a man who stole a cob of corn tied to a pillar, and poured water on him in the winter of 1941 or 1942, rendering him into a frozen statue.
Miloš was caught by the Yugoslav police (on 20 July 1947) after the war during an attempted rebellion, put on trial for the crimes he committed during the war, convicted to death, and executed
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