Vjekoslav Vrančić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vjekoslav Vrančić

Croatian politician

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1904

Place of Birth: Ljubuški, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1990

Profession: writer, politician, economist

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vjekoslav Vrančić

  • Vjekoslav Vrancic (25 March 1904 – 25 September 1990) was a high-ranked Croatian Ustaše official who held different positions in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia.
  • After the proclamation, he served as the Under Secretary of the Ustaše Foreign Affairs Ministry.
  • In 1942, he was Pavelic's envoy to the Italian Second Army.
  • In this role he entered into negotiations with Chetnik representatives Jevdevic, Grdic and Kraljevic.
  • Then he served as Under Secretary in the Ustaše Interior Ministry, the "body directly responsible for concentration camps and repressive political apparatus".
  • Vrancic was "decorated by Hitler in honor of his planning skills at the work of mass deportation".He was a confidant of Ante Pavelic and a delegate to important political and military events in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Vrancic was an Ustaša who wrote directives denying Muslims as a nation and claiming that Bosnian Muslims were Croats of Islamic faith.
  • Contrary to Pavelic's confidence in Vrancic, Eugen Dido Kvaternik, a high-ranked Ustaša, wrote that Vrancic was "a blind instrument of Pavelic's personal intrigues".Vrancic, as Pavelic's representative, was in charge to facilitate the establishment of the "Kroatische Waffen-SS Freiwilligen Division" with the SS high-ranked officers in Zagreb on 5 May 1943.
  • He reached the rank of Major in the Ustaša forces.
  • More significantly, he held the government posts of Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and later Minister of Labour of the Independent State of Croatia.To facilitate the Ustaše regime surrender to the Western Allies, Pavelic sent Vrancic (with Andrija Vrkljan as interpreter) to the Allied supreme commander in Italy.
  • Vrancic and Vrkljan were interned in a POW camp.Vrancic was allowed to escape to protective custody of the Vatican with the help of United States Intelligence.
  • He fled Italy to Argentina under false papers obtained with the help of Msgr.
  • Krunoslav Draganovic.
  • He lived in Buenos Aires until his death in 1990.
  • He was active in the Croatian community of Argentina, and became vice-president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" under Ante Pavelic.
  • He was involved in terrorist activities with extreme right-wing Argentine political groups.
  • For his activities among exiled Ustaše, Vrancic was barred from entering Australia in 1974.
  • In Argentina, he founded a weekly newspaper, Hrvatski narod (Croatian People).At the Croatian National Council's parliament in 1980, Vrancic claimed the new Croatian nation could not rely on the tradition of the Independent State of Croatia, and would have to minimize that tradition as much as possible.

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