Eugen Dido Kvaternik was a Croatia

Croatia

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n Ustaše

Ustaše

The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...

 General

General

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-Lieutenant

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 and the Chief

Chief of police

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 of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Internal Security Service in the Independent State of Croatia

Independent State of Croatia

The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...

, a Nazi puppet state

Puppet state

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 during World War II

World War II

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. He was considered at the time the second most important person in Croatia, after Ante Pavelić

Ante Pavelic

Ante Pavelić was a Croatian fascist leader, revolutionary, and politician. He ruled as Poglavnik or head, of the Independent State of Croatia , a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia...

.

Kvaternik instituted a regime of terror against Croatian Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and other "enemies of the State", and is believed to bear direct and primary responsibility for the atrocities committed by the Ustaše against those groups. In 1943, after a falling-out with Pavelić, the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, he and his father Slavko Kvaternik

Slavko Kvaternik

Slavko Kvaternik was a Croatian military commander and a collaborator with Nazi Germany. He was noted for military service in World War I, later as a deputy leader and founding member of the Croatian Ustaša movement in the 1930s who then became one of the leaders of the "Independent State of...

, who was the Croatian Minister of War, went into exile in Slovakia

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, and after the war fled to Argentina

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 with the help of the Catholic Church.

From Argentina, Kvaternik continued in his subversive activities against Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito

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. He reorganized the Ustasha supporters and continued to publish actively, never expressing any regret for his past deeds. Yugoslavia

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's multiple extradition requests were all turned down, and Kvaternik was never tried.

Eugen "Dido" Kvaternik and his two daughters died in a car crash in Argentina in 1962.