Ustase Command-Dubrovnik Order No. 188:44
Ivo Rojnica became Ustase prefect of Dubrovnik in the first days of the Independent State of Croatia. He slipped away after the war to Argentina, and became a leader in the Croatian community there along with fellow exiles Vinko Nikolic and future Croatian Liberation Movement leader Ante Bonifacic (who later moved to Chicago and became the head of Pavelic's Croatian Liberation Movement). After Croatia achieved independence in the early 1990s, Rojnica became President Franjo Tudjman's nominee to become Croatia's ambassador to Argentina until outrage by Jewish organizations forced him to withdraw. The Simon Wiesenthal Center considers Rojnica one of the top war crimes suspects still living who fled to Argentina after the war.

 

Ustase Command - Dubrovnik
No. 188:44

Dubrovnik - 25 June, 1941

 

ORDER

1) All owners of radios are ordered to hand in their equipment to the Ustasha Command Office in Dogana by the 12:00 noon of the 26th of this month. Domestic and allied military personnel and institutions are exempt from this order.

2) All Serbs and Jews are forbidden to be out in the streets or keep their businesses open from 7 pm until 7 am all days.

3) All grievances against this Order (addressed or brought) to the Ustasha Command Office are forbidden.

All those who do not comply with the above stated order will be most strictly punished in accordance to Ustasha rules and procedures.

This order comes into effect immediately and remains in force until recall.

Za Dom Spremni!

City Military Commander:
Ivo Rojnica (by his own hand)

 

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Title: Ustase Command-Dubrovnik Order No. 188:44
Source: Private Collection
Date: June 25, 1941 Added: March 9, 2003