Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić (20 June 1913 - 20 April 1969) was a Croatian Ustaše and Croatian Armed Forces general, commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, commander of the guerrilla army Crusaders and post-war Croatian activist.
He was born in Humac village (part of Ljubuški), Austria-Hungary. In his youth, he was involved with petty crime. On one occasion he was charged with vagrancy and got sentenced to two days in prison on 7 September 19...
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Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić (20 June 1913 - 20 April 1969) was a Croatian Ustaše and Croatian Armed Forces general, commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, commander of the guerrilla army Crusaders and post-war Croatian activist.
He was born in Humac village (part of Ljubuški), Austria-Hungary. In his youth, he was involved with petty crime. On one occasion he was charged with vagrancy and got sentenced to two days in prison on 7 September 1929. Two years later on 5 December 1931, the District Court in Mostar sentenced him to five months in prison for embezzlement of funds belonging to the public stock exchange in Mostar. He was arrested for embezzlement once more after that.
Luburić went abroad after Pavelić and was trained in brutality in various Ustashe camps in Italy and Hungary. Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Luburić travelled to the newly proclaimed Independent State of Croatia (NDH) on his own initiative, in order to join the Ustaša regime, and...
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