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and representatives of religious organisations regardless of their specific religion, etc. This period was also characterized by the presence of strong armed anti-communist and fascist groups in central Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. Some represented a serious challenge to
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The entire period of the existence of the OZNA (1944–1946), was characterized by improvisation and usage of unlawful practices, including occasional mass killings, in its work against the "enemies of the people." With the notion of having conducted the "revolution," all the OZNA members, from top to
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This period was also characterized by the strong presence of armed anti-communist groups operating in central Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. Some of them represented a serious challenge to the new communist authorities. In combating them, the OZNA, supported by the units
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Throughout its existence, the OZNA used illegal practices which included occasional mass murders of the "enemies of the people", under the justification of conducting the "revolution". The "enemies of the people" included not only local anti-communist forces but also notable individuals who did not
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The fifth section was formed as a counterintelligence service against foreign agent networks in Yugoslavia; that is, foreign intelligence services. (In 1946, this section merged with the new third section, which was created after the military counterintelligence service became independent).
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bottom, were ruthless and merciless toward many of the local anti-communist forces, POWs, prominent local figures who did not support the communists, prosperous individuals that possessed different wealth, and of course all kinds of representatives of the Church, no matter which religion.
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The first section (intelligence) organised intelligence activity in other countries, enemy state institutions, and occupied territory. It recruited agents and sent them to work outside the borders of the liberated territory. It collected intelligence on enemy agent networks, police,
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Since the OZNA was left without its third section after the military counter-intelligence service became independent, it formed a new third section unconnected to the previous one. It focused initially on reconstruction and combatting operations of the
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murdered prisoners without any investigation or trial, sometimes also murdering civilians associated with them. The majority of the atrocities committed by communists were hidden from the public during the period of SFRJ.
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Until the OZNA was established, intelligence and security tasks were carried out by several organizations. In spring 1944, the tasks were carried out by the Section for Protection of People in central and western
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after they gained control over Serbia in autumn 1944. The report of this commission presented a list of 59,554 registered deaths after communist victory in Serbia since autumn 1944 who died from various reasons.
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The fourth section continued filing information they had been collected within the OF VOS since 1941. From initial information files on 4,000 people, by the end of the war the number had increased to 17,750.
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The "military" and "civil" part of the OZNA began to separate in 1945 and split in March, 1946. At that time, the new splinter organizations, the Administrative Directorate for Security of JA –
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on political groups which had either joined the national liberation movement or stayed outside it, on enemy agent activities, and on armed groups of national traitors and
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The sixth section performed tasks dealing with counter-intelligence protection of transportation, but was absorbed soon after its establishment by the second sector.
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proclaimed by special directive (March 24, 1945) a new organization of the JA – OZNA. The OZNA was in direct command of counter-intelligence protection of military
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of the KNOJ, executed the captured "outlaws" without any additional investigations or trials, including sometimes even the civilian accomplices of these "outlaws."
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state machinery, and quisling military units. This was essentially an offensive intelligence service, directed against foreign countries and occupied territory.
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The fourth section performed statistical and technical tasks, processed information, and kept records. This section also included special photography,
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Kod ustanovljenja istine о delu i krivnji optuženog sud nije formalno vezan ni za kakva dokazna sredstva, već donosi svoju odluku po slobodnoj oceni.
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The author talks about numerous examples of civilians and soldiers that collaborated with the Nazis like Zdenko Blažeković and Nikola Mandić.
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Tomasevich talks about collaboration, and uses Milan Nedić, that commanded the 3rd Army Group during the Nazi invasion.
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of intelligence and security could not satisfy the growing needs of the Supreme Staff. The OZNA was created as an
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support the communists, collaborators with the occupying Axis powers, wealthy individuals, captured members of
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The second section (counterintelligence service in the liberated territory) collected information from trusted
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Most of those atrocities remained hidden throughout the period of socialist Yugoslavia until recent times.
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services. All OZNA tasks were divided into four groups, each comprising an organizational unit:
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the new communist authorities. In combating armed anti-communist groups, the OZNA and
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atrocities that were committed by members of the Yugoslav Partisan Movement
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A fifth and sixth section were formed in the OZNA in March and April 1945.
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protection of armed forces and was active only in the NOVJ & PO (
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The OZNA was led by a chief who was directly subordinate to the
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The OZNA was founded on 13 May 1944 according to decision of
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When the National Liberation Army changed its name into the
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until his downfall in 1966, and a close associate of
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Index

Department for the Protection of the People
Serbian
Croatian
Slovene
Macedonian
Secret police
Secret police
KOS
UDBA
FPR Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Serbo-Croatian
security agency
Communist Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
Aleksandar Ranković
nom de guerre
Politburo
Josip Broz Tito
Operation Rösselsprung
Serbo-Croatian
Bosnia
Croatia
Vojvodina
Montenegro
Slovene National Liberation Committee
Slovenia
intelligence
partisan
Central Serbia

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