The Trial of Mile Budak was the one-day trial of

Mile Budak Mile Budak (30 August 1889 – 7 June 1945) was a Croatian politician and writer best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian fascist Ustaša movement, which ruled the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia ...

and a number of other members of the government of the

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for high treason and war crimes on 6 June 1945 in

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. The trial was held by the Military Court of the II. Army of

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. Seven of the accused were executed the following day, and another died in prison.

Apprehension

Following the Independent State of Croatia evacuation to Austria, several of the accused were apprehended by the British in their occupation zone in Austria. They were subsequently held at the Spittal detainment camp. On 17 May the British sent Nikola Mandić, Julije Makanec and Pavao Canki from Spittal to a train headed to Zagreb. They were joined en route by Nikola Steinfel and

.Nada Kisić Kolanović. "Politički procesi u Hrvatskoj neposredno nakon Drugoga svjetskoga rata", ''1945 - Razdjelnica hrvatske povijesti'', Zbornik radova sa znanstvenog skupa u Hrvatskom institutu za povijest u Zagrebu 1-6, svibnja 2006, pp. 75-97, see pg. 85; .

The Indicted

- Minister of Education (1941), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1943) #Pavao Canki - Minister of Justice and Religion (1943-1945) # Julije Makanec - Minister of Education (1943-1945) # Nikola Mandić - Prime Minister (1943-1945) # Ademaga Mešić - Doglavnik #Lavoslav Milić - General #Bruno Nardelli - Governor #Juraj Rukavina - Ustaša Colonel #Nikola Steinfel - Minister of the Armed Forces (1944-1945) #Ivan Vidnjević - President of "Mobile Kangoroo Court"

Sentences

Executed 7 June

#Pavao Canki # Julije Makanec # Nikola Mandić #Nikola Steinfel #Juraj Rukavina #Ivan Vidnjević

Life imprisonment

# Ademaga Mešić (died at

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, 1945)

Twenty years imprisonment

#Lavoslav Milić #Bruno Nardelli

Notes

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