Eugen Dido Kvaternik (29 March 1910 – 10 March 1962) was a

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and the Chief of the Internal Security Service in the

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, a

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during

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Life

Eugen Dido Kvaternik was son of Slavko Kvaternik, a general in the

army and a member of the Ustaše, and Olga Frank, daughter of

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, a Catholic convert whose parents were

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. He instituted a regime of terror against Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and other "enemies of the State". In 1943, after a falling-out with Pavelić, the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, he and his father, Slavko, the Croatian Minister of War, went into exile in

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, and after the war fled to

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. From Argentina, he directed activities against Josip Broz Tito. He reorganized Ustaše supporters and continued to publish actively.

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's multiple extradition requests were all turned down, and Kvaternik was never tried. Dido Kvaternik died in a car crash in Río Cuarto, Argentina in 1962.

Family

Kvaternik met Marija Cvitković in 1941; the two married on 10 January 1942. The couple had three children: Slavko, Davor and Olga. Slavko later became a professor of political sciences in Argentina, and Davor became a cardiologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dido and Olga both died in a car accident on 10 March 1962.Milan Blažeković: ''Bio-bibliografski leksikon suradnika Hrvatske revije''. Školske novine-Pergamena, Zagreb 1996, S. 262-263;

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External links

Eugen Dido Kvaternik profile
, jusp-jasenovac.hr; accessed 28 October 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kvaternik, Dido, Eugen 1910 births 1962 deaths Military personnel from Zagreb Croatian fascists Croatian irredentism Croatian people of Jewish descent Croatian people of German descent People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany Croatian collaborators with Fascist Italy Ustaše Croatian military personnel of World War II Road incident deaths in Argentina Holocaust perpetrators in Yugoslavia Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia perpetrators Romani genocide perpetrators Yugoslav emigrants to Argentina Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany