Nevio Skull (23 December 1903 – 3 May 1945) was a Fiuman Italian businessman and politician from

Rijeka Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Prim ...

(now Croatia). From his father, Skull inherited the property of the "Foundry and factory machines of Matthew Skull", founded in Rijeka in 1878 and quickly became the largest private industry in the city before being taken over in 1935. After 1943 Skull was approached by emissaries of the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, Slovene language, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НО� ...

, who attempted to convince him to support the annexation of the city of Rijeka to the

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, also known as Democratic Federative Yugoslavia (DF Yugoslavia or DFY), was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Natio ...

. Skull rejected these proposals, and with the surrender of

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in World War II, a group of citizens issued a ''

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Memorandum'' in which it was recommended that an Italian confederate state be formed from the free cantons of Rijeka (''Fiume''), Sušak (''Sussak'') and

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(''Bisterza''), with a planned

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with the islands of Krk (''Veglia''),

Cres Cres (; dlm, Crepsa, vec, Cherso, it, Cherso, la, Crepsa, Greek: Χέρσος, ''Chersos'') is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern islands in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from Rijeka, the island Krk o ...

(''Cherso'') and Lošinj (''Lussino'').

Death

On the night of 3–4 May 1945, following the Yugoslav occupation of Rijeka, Skull was arrested by agents of

OZNA The Department for People's Protection or OZNA ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Одељење за заштиту нaрода, Odjeljenje za zaštitu naroda, Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda; mk, Одделение за заштита на народот; sl, Oddele ...

and disappeared as part of the Fiume Autonomists purge. His body was found on the riverbed of the Rječina 25 days later with a gunshot wound to the neck.

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