Ljubo Miloš

Ljubomir "Ljubo" Miloš (25 February 1919 – 20 August 1948) was a Croatian public official who was a member of the Ustaše of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II.

[5] The country was then dismembered and the extreme Croat nationalist and fascist Ante Pavelić, who had been in exile in Benito Mussolini's Italy, was appointed Poglavnik (leader) of an Ustaše-led Croatian state – the Independent State of Croatia (often called the NDH, from the Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska).

[6][7] NDH authorities, led by the Ustaše militia,[8] subsequently implemented genocidal policies against the Serb, Jewish and Romani population living within the borders of the new state.

Luburić made him his right-hand man and used his influence to get Miloš a position within the Ustaše Supervisory Service (Croatian: Ustaška nadzorna služba, UNS), which ran the Jasenovac concentration camp.

Miloš was personally responsible for the safety of Croatian politician Vladko Maček during his imprisonment, from 15 October 1941 to 15 March 1942.

[4] Maček seeing Miloš, before going to bed, always made the sign of the cross, asked him if he "feared God's punishment" for the atrocities he committed in the camp.

[17] During the summer of 1942, he travelled to Italy to complete a law enforcement course in Turin, but returned to the NDH after only ten days.

Troops under Miloš's command raided several villages near Jasenovac in October 1942, looted countless homes, arrested hundreds of Serb peasants and deported them to the camps.

A witness, Danon Jakob, reported about the killing of newly arrived victims on Christmas Day, stating that:[19]Matijevic Joso pushed the prisoners towards Ljubo Milos with a bayonet.

Each and every one of them Milos stabbed with a strong swing of a large butcher knife and slit their throats.By the end of World War II, Miloš had attained the rank of Major.

[20] During his trial, he confessed to killing Jasenovac inmates[21] and testified that the Ustaše had drawn up plans for the extermination of Serbs long before 1941.

[22][23] Miloš was found guilty on all counts on 20 August 1948 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of the People's Republic of Croatia.