Petar Brzica ( Croatian Petar Brzica ; 1917 [4] ) is a Croatian war criminal accused of massacre of Serbs. He committed his crimes with a Serbose-knife. Presumably, he was the “record holder” in the number of murders per night (1360 people).
| Petar Brzitsa | |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Feather, King Serborez [1] |
| Date of Birth | 1917 |
| Place of Birth | Austria-Hungary |
| Citizenship |  Yugoslavia  Croatia |
| Date of death | 2007 |
| Work | student of the University of Zagreb, politician |
| Crime | |
| Crime | mass killings of Serbs |
| Period of commission | 1941-1945 |
| Region of Commission | Independent State of Croatia |
| Motive | political |
| Accused of | killing 1300 [2] or 1360 [3] people |
| Punishment | death penalty (in absentia) |
Biography
He graduated from Franciscan College in Shiroki Brijeg, studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. He was a member of the Great Order of the Crusaders. In his youth he became interested in nationalist ideas, joined the Ustasha party [5] . In the army, NGH rose to the rank of lieutenant [6] [7] [8] [9] .
On August 29, 1942, he took part in the competition for the killing of captured Serb prisoners of concentration camps and won, killing approximately 1360 people [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] . As a reward, he received monetary encouragement and a nominal gold watch [18] . As for the number of murders committed by Brzitsa, there are disagreements. Some historians claim that he did not kill thousands of people [19] , others that 1100 [20] .
In March 1943, he was beaten by captured Serbs as a sign of revenge for a perfect act of genocide [21] . Reliable data on the whereabouts of Brzica after the war has not yet been provided.
Notes
- ↑ Historic Melee Weapons: Unusual Two-Blade Knife
- ↑ Wanted! : The Search for Nazis in America, Howard Blum, Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co. 1977
- ↑ The Career of Andrija Artukovic Archived copy of September 30, 2011 on the Wayback Machine (unavailable link from 09-09-2013 [2235 days] - history , copy )
- ↑ Jasenovac: The Jewish Serbian Holocaust (the Role of the Vatican) in Nazi-Ustasha Croatia (1941-1945) by Milan Bulajić, Svetlana Šarčević and Jelena Popović, Fund for Genocide Research (2002), p. 215
"Petar Brzica, 25 years old, a Franciscan [priest] of the" Order of Friars Minor ", a scholar from Široki Brijeg monastery, the Ustasha captain, who, according to the testimony of Ustasha Mile Friganović, in one night, on 29 August 1942, killed 1360 internees ... " - ↑ Špijun u mantiji by Siniša Ivanović, Nova knjiga Belgrade, 1987, p. 78
- ↑ Branimir Stanoevich. Ustash Minister of Death: Anatomy of the Crime of Andriy Artukovich, Moscow, Progress, 1989, ISBN 5-01-001639-7
- ↑ "Sećanja Jevreja na logor Jasenovac" by Dušan Sindik, Savez jevrejskih opština Jugoslavije 1972, p. 154
"Then the Ustashe butchers came: Ljubo Miloš along with a wolfhound and Ustashe lieutant Pero Brzica who started from the left flank of the human formation / interrogating what were the occupations of these people." - ↑ State Commission of Croatia for the investigation of the crimes of the occupation forces and their collaborators
- ↑ Jasenovac information site Archived November 19, 2011 to Wayback Machine (unavailable link from 09-09-2013 [2235 days] - history , copy )
- ↑ Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia by Barry M. Lituchy Jasenovac Research Institute (1st edition), New York (2006)
- ↑
"Another historian, Teophilo Gardini, reports a very strange contest of" Serbian throat-cutting "- won on August 29, 1942 by a certain Petar Brzica, a former Franciscan of the Široki Brijeg Monastery" - ↑ Dr. Nikola Nikolic testimony, see Avro Manhattan 's Vatican's holocaust , p. 48
- ↑ Taborišče smrti - Jasenovac by Nikola Nikolić (author), Jože Zupančić (translator), 1969, p. 293
- ↑ Nedjo Zec quotes the Ustasa Mile Friganović ( The Role of the Vatican in the Breakup of the Yugoslav State , by Dr. Milan Bulajić, Belgrade (1994), pp. 156-57) from a January 1943 interview with Mile Friganović by psychiatrist Dr . Nedjo Zec, who also had been an inmate at Jasenovac Archived on May 1, 2009. (unavailable link from 09/09/2013 [2235 days] - history , copy )
- ↑ Witness Ljubomir Sarić quotes the Ustasa Ante Zrinušić at Dinko Sakic's trial on April 15, 1999
- ↑ The Glass Half Full by Alan Greenhalgh, p. 68 ( ISBN 0977584410 )
"Wherever they went they experienced similar cruelty from the Ustashe guards. They heard stories about the fierce butcher, Petar Brzica, who boasted that during one night alone he killed 1,360 prisoners." - ↑ Jasenovac: The Jewish Serbian Holocaust , ibid., P. 215
- ↑ THE TRIUMPH OF TERRORISM
- ↑ Taborišče smrti-Jasenovac by Nikola Nikolić (author), Jože Zupančić (translator), 1969, p. 293
Tisto noč je ustaš Pero Brzica v hitrosti in spretnosti svojega krvniškega posla prekosil vse ustaške klavce. Sam je namreč zaklal 670 internircev jasenovškega taborišča. Med seboj so tekmovali v klavskem poslu Brzica, Bonzo, Šipka, Zrinušić in še nekaj drugi klavci, ki pa so za Brzico znatno zaostajali - ↑ "Nedjelja", Zagreb, October 19, 1942, referenced in Sângeroasa destrămare: Iugoslavia by CI Christian, published by Editura Sylvi (1994), p. 170 ( ISBN 9739175015 , ISBN 978-973-9175-01-2 )
- ↑ State Commission, ibid., P. fifty