December 22, 1907 - Rafael Boban
As commander of the Black Legion, one of the most feared Ustaše units, Boban oversaw operations marked by extreme violence against Serb, Jewish, and Roma civilians across the Independent State of Croatia. His forces became synonymous with some of the most brutal anti-partisan campaigns and mass killings of the occupation period, carried out with a consistency that made the unit notorious even within the broader context of wartime atrocity.
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Rafael "Ranko" Boban (22 December 1907 – disappearance in May 1945) was a Croatian military commander who served in the Ustaše Militia and Croatian Armed Forces during World War II. Having participated in the Velebit uprising in 1932, he joined the Royal Italian Army and returned to Croatia following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. He fought with the Ustaše until the end of the war, when he is reported to have evaded the Yugoslav Partisans and reached the Austrian town of Bleiburg. Nothing is known of what happened to him afterwards, and it was rumoured that he was either killed in Podravina in 1945, died fighting with the Crusaders in Herzegovina in 1947, or, less likely, emigrated to the United States via Argentina, joined the United States Army and fought Communist forces in the Korean War. In 1951, he was named the Croatian Minister of Defence in-exile by Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić.
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