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The Villa Luburić or Vila Folkert or Colonel Luburić's Centre: "Njegov stab, »Stozer pukovnika Luburica«, postao je muciliste nevidenih i neslucenih razmjera i oblika." was the seat of
In March and beginning of April 1945 his forces killed 323 people and hanged 55 of their corps on threes Marijin Dvor to terrify local population. They had placards around their necks with inscription "Long live the
The Villa Luburić or Vila Folkert or Colonel Luburić's Centre: "Njegov stab, »Stozer pukovnika Luburica«, postao je muciliste nevidenih i neslucenih razmjera i oblika." was the seat of Ustaše
The Ustaše (), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Move ...
headquarters in 1945 Sarajevo
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, Independent State of Croatia
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(modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina
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). The address of this Vila was Skenderija street number 49, owned by Milan Sarić. From February–May 1945, the Ustaše killed at least 323 people in this villa.
Background
In February 1945,Ante Pavelić
Ante Pavelić (; 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and served as dictator of the Independent State of Croatia ( hr, l ...
sent Vjekoslav Luburić
Vjekoslav Luburić (6 March 1914 – 20 April 1969) was a Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II. Luburić also personally oversaw and spe ...
to Sarajevo with instructions to destroy the resistance movement. The real task of Luburić was to use the group of monstrous sadists and killers to create atmosphere of fear which would allow Ustaše to retreat from Bosnia and Herzegovina with their forces without casualties and delays.
House of terror
Luburić established his headquarters in the center of Sarajevo. Initially, his headquarter was seated in former Sokolska street (of Mis Irbina's street after the war), but he soon transferred it to villa known as ''Folkert'' or ''Berković'' in Skenderija street. Luburić and his forces also used the home of a Croatian family surnamed Babunović as well as a restaurant (''Gradski podrum''), which, combined, became known as the "House of Terror". He deliberately chose this villa for symbolic reasons, because it was a seat of Sarajevo'sMasonic Lodge
A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered ...
, leaving the symbol of freemasonry on its facade.
Luburić turned his headquarters into slaughter house and place for torturing and imprisoning Serbs, Jews and political dissidents.
Immediately after his arrival to Sarajevo, he organized mass arrests. At the end of February 1945 his forces and local police arrested several hundred of people and hunted remaining Jews in Sarajevo. It is estimated that he managed to locate and capture about two hundred Jews. Luburić set up an "emergency court" ( sh, Prijeki Vojni Sud) and organized the execution of hundreds of people. This court organized 13 trials to 85 people, 44 of them sentenced to death and rest of them to long-term prison, but only few survived.
In March and beginning of April 1945 his forces killed 323 people and hanged 55 of their corps on threes Marijin Dvor to terrify local population. They had placards around their necks with inscription "Long live the Poglavnik
() was the title used by Ante Pavelić, leader of the World War II Croatian movement Ustaše and of the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.
Etymology and usage
The word was first recorded in a 16th-century dictionary compiled ...
". The results of this brutality were witnessed by Landrum Bolling, an American journalist.''Sarajevo: A Biography'', by Robert J. Donia, University of Michigan Press (16 May 2006); Pages 196–7
Legacy
After the war the premises of former restaurant ''Gradski podrum'' were turned into cinema ''Romanija''.References
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