Prilog poznavanju organizacije njemačkog sustava zaštite željezničkog prometa u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj s posebnim osvrtom na bosanske pruge (1941. - 1945.)
The Contribution to the Knowledge of the Organization of the German Protection System of the Railway Traffic in the Independent State of Croatia With Particular Emphasis on the Bosnian Railway Lines

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a contribution to the knowledge from the aspect of the history of institutions of the organization and activity of the German protection system of the railway traffic in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), with particular emphasis on the Bosnian railway lines. This paper is for the most part based on studying archival records kept at the Croatian State Archives. Besides analyzed archival funds the paper is also based on published sources, as well as professional literature pertaining to the subject. The main task of the German railway transport institutions and units was the transport safety of the operational units, armaments, military equipment, strategic raw materials, food and other goods required by their wartime and civilian production. The task of securing the railway lines was associated with numerous problems and difficulties that in the end proved insurmountable. The latter mainly concerned attacks on the railway infrastructure carried out by the National Liberation Army (the Partisans), and the Allied airstrikes during the final phase of the war. Of all the German transport institutions that were directly or indirectly authorized for the Bosnian railway lines this paper analyses the following: transport officer at the German general in Zagreb (liaison officer of the head for transport at the German general in Zagreb), Transport Command in Zagreb, No. 7 Railway Command in Zagreb (German representative for traffic in Croatia), No. 22 Feldeisenbahnbetriebsabteilung in Zagreb, the Hengsberger headquarters for specific use in Doboj, the German headquarters for securing railway lines Croatia in Brod na Savi with the secure zones “D” (the Doboj headquarters) and “F” (the Bosanski Novi headquarters). Among operational military units, some German divisions are mentioned, only in the context of the German and Croatian armor trains that were in the area they secured.

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