Ljubo Miloš

Ljubo Miloš (1919-1948) was an official of the Croatian World War II regime. As an Ustaše, he was the head of the Independent State of Croatia secret service ("Tajna služba"). Miloš was also a commandant in the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp. He was a very sadistic and pathological commander [ Zločini u logoru Jasenovac by Zemaljska komisija Hrvatske za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača Zagreb 1946] [Jasenovac: Proceedings of the First International Conference and Exhibit on the Jasenovac Concentration Camps : October 29-31, 1997, Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York by Wanda Schindley, Petar Makara, Dallas Pub., 1997 Page 289.
Dr. Maček was in custodio onesta and was interned for a while in Jasenovac. And when they become more familiar because they slept in the same room - Dr. Maček noticed that Ljubo Miloš prayed every night before going to bed. Finally, he ventured the question, and he said, "How do you combine your Catholicism with the task you are performing in this camp?"] [Blank Pages of the Holocaust: Gypsies in Yugoslavia During World War II by Elizabeta Jevtic, Bringham Young University, 2004 see [http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd463.pdf] - Danon Jakob testimony on page 113] . He did not tolerate escape attempts, for any of which he would order collective punishments in hundreds. Miloš was often seen riding his horse, trampling and shooting inmates or killing emaciated inmates, who stretched their hands out for food, as they were fed with one meal of fodder made of cattle turnip. [cite book | first = Cadik | last = Danon | title = The Smell of Human Flesh: A Witness of the Holocaust : Memories of Jasenovac | year = 2002 | publisher = S. Mašić | id = ISBN 8675980175, ISBN 9788675980179]

Whenever a transport of Jews came into the camp, Miloš would dress up as a physician, have the guards bring him the people who needed medical help, take them to an "ambulance", put them against a wall, and "with a strike of the knife cut the victim's throat, shear his ribs and slit open his belly."cite book | title = Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks | author = Aaron, Mark and Loftus, John | year = 1998 | publisher = Macmillan | page = page 111 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=HXxew8zc1GQC&pg=PA111&dq=Ljubo+Milo%C5%A1&ei=GCPESMOEK5HytQP8xaTXDA&sig=ACfU3U0dAvgGW-xTz9jNW7P3ZlVpIPKaeA ]

He set up a so-called "medical clinic", in which he slaughtered Jewish inmates, as the state-commission gathered.

Miloš was caught by the Yugoslav police (on July 20, 1947) after the war during an attempted rebellion, put on trial for the crimes he committed during the war, convicted to death, and executed [ Tito Speaks: His Self Portrait and Struggle with Stalin by Vladimir Dedijer, Josip Broz Tito, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953. page 377]

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