Summary
Rudolf Horvat: Croatia on torture
first edition
The book provides abundant historical material about the circumstances in Croatia after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the founding of the Independent State of Croatia. Horvat gives an account of the struggle of Croatian politics against the Greater Serbian hegemony expressed in all spheres of life. The book is complete with rich documentary material, and the events are recorded in the order in which they happened with information on who participated in them, from which position and with what intentions.
In 1937 Rudolf Horvat founded the historical society Hrvatski rodoljub in which he publishes several of his books and during Banovine Hrvatska starts the magazine Croatian past. When the NDH was established, Horvat reactivated himself as a historian and professor and taught history at the Home Guard Academy and the Officers' School. In 1942 he was appointed a member of Parliament, and in 1944 he was appointed full professor of history at Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. In 1942, his book Croatia on Torture was published, which provides abundant historical material about the circumstances in Croatia between 1918 and 1941, for which in the summer 1945 he was brought before the Court for the Protection of National Honor by the new authorities. By the judgment of the Supreme People's Court in Zagreb, he was sentenced to the loss of political and civil rights for 10 years
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