Mihailo Olćan

Mihailo Olćan (Serbian: Михаило Олћан) (1894 in Crepaja, Austria-Hungary – 1961 in Australia) was a Serbian soldier and fascist politician.

He finished gymnasium in Novi Sad and enrolled in medicine at the university in Pest. With the outbreak of World War I Olćan he joined the Austro-Hungarian army. He was sent to the Eastern Front where he eventually defected to the Russians.

He was one of the founders of the first fascist party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav National Movement ZBOR. With the establishment of Nedić's Serbia during World War II, Olćan became part of its government, serving in the post of Minister of Economy from August 29, 1941 until November 7, 1942. With the state's eventual defeat, he escaped Yugoslavia to Australia where he died in 1961.

Mihailo Olćan represented the hardline current in the ZBOR which advocated pure national socialism, including full-scale antisemitism, one of the few who openly supported the Final Solution and propagated Jewish conspiracy theories, including the Priorate of Scion Wisdom.

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Name	Olcan, Mihailo
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Date of birth	1894
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Date of death	1961
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