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Durisic, Pavle

Date of birth:
July 9th, 1909 (Podgorica, Montenegro)
Date of death:
April 1945
Nationality:
Yugoslavian (1918-1945, Kingdom)

Biography

Lieutenant colonel Pavle Durisic was a Cetnik commander and war criminal during the Second World War. He was killed in an NDH/Ustase ambush in late 1945. Other sources claim he was killed in an Ustase concentration camp.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
October 11th, 1944
For his contribution in the war against the partisans
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

Sources

  • Photo: Wikimedia Commons
  • - National Archives, Washington D.C., microcopy T-501, roll 256, frames 509, 867; Records of German Field Commands: Rear Areas, Occupied Territories and Others. Microfilm Publication T-501. 363 rolls. (GG 38, 57 and T176/roll 25, cited in Cohen 1996, pp. 45, 174
    - - Maclean, Fitzroy (1957). Disputed Barricade: The Life and Times of Josip Broz-Tito, Marshal of Jugoslavia. London: Jonathan Cape. OCLC 328091.
    - Pajović, Radoje (1987). Pavle Đurišić (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Centar za informacije i publicitet. ISBN 978-86-7125-006-1.

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