Order: Maks Luburic's Proclamation
This mysterious missive was first published in the Chicago Croatian newspaper Danica (Morning Star) on August 9, 1950. The hitherto unknown personage behind the alias of "General Drinyanin" soon revealed his identity in the pages of his own publication, Drina: none other than Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburic, the founder of the camp at Jasenovac and one of the most sadistic killers of the Ustase regime. From Spain, Luburic organized the defeated Ustase in Otpor or Odpor, a new organization which spanned a dozen countries and, as this document shows, never relinquished the overall command of all Croatian armed forces bestowed upon him by Ante Pavelic in the dying days of the Independent State of Croatia.

 

From: Headquarters of the Fifth Assembly of Croatian Armed Forces, having jurisdiction over all subjects of the Croatian armed forces living on the territory of the European states...

It has been learned that some persons - unauthorized - are endeavouring to persuade individuals to enlist in foreign armies.

By order of the Supreme Command of all Croatian Armed Forces, all subjects living in any European state is notified that no individual is authorized, nor is permitted in any capacity, to join a foreign army without a special authorization permit.

The Supreme Command of all Croatian Armed Forces will marshall its forces against Bolshevism when the time is right, to fight side by side with all other anti-Communist nations, under our own flag and within our own Croatian army formations!

 

Headquarters
5th Assembly
General Drinyanin

 

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Title: Order: Maks Luburic's Proclamation
Source: Danica
Date: August 9, 1950 Added: December 2002