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Ante Pavelić
Ante Pavelić was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945. Pavelić and the Ustaše persecuted many racial minorities and political opponents in the NDH during the war, including Ser…
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politics · Dictator of the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945 · politician · lawyer · military personnel · Holocaust perpetrator · also Ante Pavelić, Pavelić
Born 14 July 1889 · Died 28 December 1959 · Q36965
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Pavelić u Saboru 1942
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Pavelić u Saboru 1942
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2023· 2 entries
Hotnews: Croatul Ante Pavelic sau cum i-au îngrozit crimele ustașilor până și pe naziști
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2020· 1 entry
NPO Radio 1: Duistere figuren in het daglicht: Ante Pavelic, leider van Kroatië in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
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2017· 1 entry
The movie was adapted into a theatrical play where Pavelić was portrayed by Boris Mirković
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2012· 1 entry
Tribune de Genève: Polémique après une messe célébrant le croate pro-nazi Ante Pavelic
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2009· 1 entry
Libertad Digital: Hallan en Madrid vídeos del líder pro nazi Ante Pavelic
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2004· 1 entry
WDR: Stichtag: 14. Juli 1889 - Ante Pavelic wird geboren
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1999· 1 entry
Blagoje Jovović, a hotel owner who had emigrated from Montenegro to Argentina following WW2, claimed shortly before his death to have been behind the shooting
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1959· 1 entry
Died 1959-12-28.
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: gunshot wound.
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1954· 1 entry
Pavelić met with Milan Stojadinović, a former Royal Yugoslav Prime Minister, who also lived in Buenos Aires
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1950· 2 entries
Pavelić was given amnesty and allowed to stay in Argentina along with 34,000 other Croats, including former Nazi collaborators and those who had fled from the Allied advance
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Founded the Croatian Statehood Party, which ceased to exist that year
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1945· 1 entry
Pavelić ordered the executions of prominent NDH politicians Mladen Lorković and Ante Vokić on charges of treason when they were arrested for plotting to oust him and align the NDH with the Allies
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1943).
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1941· 3 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1941).
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The Croatian Football Association joined FIFA
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Career landmark: Poglavnik (1941–1945).
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1940· 1 entry
Pavelić negotiated with the Italians for military assistance in creating a separate Croatian state which would have had strong ties to Italy, but this plan was postponed by the invasion of France, and subsequently derail
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1939· 1 entry
Further increased Ustaše activity; they founded Uzdanica (Hope), a savings co-operative
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1938· 1 entry
Instructed the Ustaše to form stations in Yugoslav towns
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1932· 3 entries
Started a newspaper named the "Ustaša – –Herald of Croatian Revolutionaries" (Croatian: Ustaša – vijesnik hrvatskih revolucionaraca)
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Culminating in the assassination of King Alexander in 1934 in conjunction with the IMRO
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Pavelić, Perčec and Vjekoslav Servatzy decided to start a small uprising
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1931· 1 entry
Pavelić established terrorist training camps, first in Bovegno in the Brescia region, and encouraged the foundation of such camps all around Italy
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1929· 2 entries
And banned all political parties, Pavelić went abroad and plotted with the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) to undermine the Yugoslav state, which prompted the Yugoslav authorities to try him in abse
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And was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945
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1927· 2 entries
Secretly contacted the fascist dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini, and presented his separatist ideas to him
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Pavelić became the vice president of the party
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1921· 1 entry
14 Party of Rights members, including Pavelić, Ivo Pilar and Milan Šufflay, were arrested for anti-Yugoslav activities, for their alleged contacts with the Croatian Committee, a Croatian nationalist organization that was
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1918· 1 entry
Pavelić entered the party leadership and its Business Committee
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1912· 1 entry
Pavelić was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attempted assassination of the Ban of Croatia-Slavonia, Slavko Cuvaj
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1910· 1 entry
And entered the Law Faculty of the University of Zagreb
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1909· 1 entry
Finished his sixth-year classes in Karlovac
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-07-14.
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