The Croatian fascist organization Ustash hanged 55 Sarajevo citizens from trees and lampposts in Sarajevo's Marindovor district in the middle of the night between March 27 and 28, 1945. A sign reading "Long live Pogravnik!" signs were placed around the necks of the hanged Sarajevo citizens. The bodies of Sarajevo citizens were left hanging as an example to others. Those who attempted to retrieve the bodies were fired upon. from February 18 to April 4, Lubricić and Ustaše carried out grisly attacks against Sarajevo citizens, killing at least 783 Sarajevo residents. Punishments of retribution by hanging for the murders and assassinations were carried out.
Vjekoslav Luburić, a senior Ustaše official, ordered the hangings. In February 1945, the Ustaše dictator Pavelić's regime sent Luburić to Sarajevo, where he orchestrated the torture and murder of hundreds of communists over the next two months, Ustash uncovered an assassination plot against Lubrich. Four Ustash were subsequently murdered by partisans. In retaliation, they executed 55 suspected Sarajevo citizens by hanging for show. The most horrific atrocity was the execution of a holocaust in the basement of the Lubricić villa, which was called Berković.
Ustaše was a Croatian fascist organization from 1929 to 1945. In Yugoslavia during World War II, Ustash executed the Holocaust and massacred hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, and dissident Croats. Ustaš did not persecute Bosniaks as Muslim Croats, and on April 10, 1941, as a quasi-protectorate of the Axis powers, he was appointed to govern part of Yugoslavia as the puppet state Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and took power. Ustaš was militarily weak and lacked the support of the Croatian people; on May 15, 1945, the Independent State of Croatia collapsed. Lubricić fled to Spain, the only non-Axis country to recognize the Independent State of Croatia, and was assassinated in Spain on April 21, 1969, by Ilija Stanić, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service (UDBA).
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