January 8, 1896 - Andrija Artuković
As both Interior Minister and Justice Minister of the wartime Croatian puppet state, Artuković occupied a position that gave legislative and administrative reach over the persecution of entire populations. He formalized that persecution through racial laws targeting Serbs, Jews, and Roma, and bore direct responsibility for the concentration camp system that followed. The scale of civilian suffering connected to his tenure placed him among the more consequential architects of Ustaše policy during the occupation years.
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Andrija Artuković (19 November 1899 – 16 January 1988) was a Croatian lawyer, politician, and senior member of the fascist Ustaše movement, who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Justice in the Government of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II in Yugoslavia. He signed into law several racial laws against Serbs, Jews, and Roma, and was responsible for a string of concentration camps where civilians were tortured and murdered. He escaped to the United States after the war, where he lived until he was extradited to Yugoslavia in 1986. He was tried and found guilty of several mass killings in the NDH and was sentenced to death, but the sentence was not carried out due to his age and health. He died in custody in 1988.
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