VIROVITICA CROATIAN NATIONAL YOUTH FROM THE INTER-WAR PERIOD UNTIL JOINING THE USTASHA YOUTH IN 1941 Cover Image

Virovitička hrvatska nacionalna omladina između dva svjetska rata do pristupa Ustaškoj mladeži 1941.
VIROVITICA CROATIAN NATIONAL YOUTH FROM THE INTER-WAR PERIOD UNTIL JOINING THE USTASHA YOUTH IN 1941

Author(s): Stipe Pilić
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Matica hrvatska Daruvar
Keywords: youth; Croatian national youth; Croatian right-wing republican youth; Hrvatski Junak (eng. Croatian Hero); Ustasha youth;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the emergence of Croatian youth in Virovitica in the 1920s, the further development of those years, the revolutionary action to establish the 6 January dictatorship and the fate of individuals through individual terrorist actions. After the short-term almost cessation of youth work in the country, the youth’s work is first intensified through activities in illegal semi-military and paramilitary units of the Croatian Peasant and Civil Protection. With the creation of the Banovina of Croatia, Hrvatski Junak (eng. Croatina Hero) was founded, the most massive organization of Croatian national youth aged 7 to 21, which is under the influence and leadership of the Croatian Peasant Party. With the creation of the Independent State of Croatia, the Hrvatski Junak (eng. Croatian Hero) in a short time, until September 1941, completely approached the Ustasha youth. The new state is trying to gather the entire youth from 7 to 21 years of age in the Ustasha youth, which will succeed administratively. In all periods, the youth represented the fighting parts of the parties or the state and was most often a kind of paramilitary, semi-military organization.

  • Issue Year: IV/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 186-248
  • Page Count: 63
  • Language: Croatian
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