Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić' (April 21, 1911 - April 20, 1969), was a member of the Croatian World War II regime, the Ustaše, best known as the commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was born in Humac near Ljubuški, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
As per his own words he was born in a Serbian Orthodox family, conerted into the Roman Catholicism in his boyhood. In his youh he was a low profile criminal once charged with vagrancy sentenced to two...
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Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić' (April 21, 1911 - April 20, 1969), was a member of the Croatian World War II regime, the Ustaše, best known as the commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was born in Humac near Ljubuški, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
As per his own words he was born in a Serbian Orthodox family, conerted into the Roman Catholicism in his boyhood. In his youh he was a low profile criminal once charged with vagrancy sentenced to two days in prison, and second time for the embezzlement of some money belonging to the public stock exchange in Mostar
Luburić was a common rambler, who went abroad after Pavelić and was trained in brutality in various Ustashe camps in Italy and Hungary. In the beginning of the Second World War, Luburić was the commanding general for the area of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) around the Drina river, which is why he is sometimes referred to as General Drinjanin (General of the Drina).
Vjekoslav Luburić, as the commander-in-chief of all...
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