Language Croatian Subject Patriotism Genre Poetry Education University of Zagreb | Alma mater University of Zagreb Role Writer Nationality Croat Name Vinko Nikolic | |
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Born 2 March 1912
Sibenik, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary ( 1912-03-02 ) Occupation Writer, poet, journalist Died July 12, 1997, Sibenik, Croatia | ||
Notable awards Order of Duke Trpimir | ||
Vinko Nikolić - Matica hrvatska u Slatini, 6.3.1993.
Vinko Nikolić (2 March 1912 – 12 July 1997) was the adjutant to Croatian fascist dictator Ante Pavelić, who led the Ustaše movement and Independent State of Croatia (NDH), affiliated with both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany that was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia during World War II, and which pursued genocidal policies against ethnic and racial minorities such as Serbs, Jews, and Romani. A war criminal, he escaped to Buenos Aires, Argentina where he lived until returning to Croatia, several years before his death. He was a writer, poet and journalist in civilian life.
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Biography
Vinko Nikolić was born in Šibenik in 1912. He attended elementary school and Catholic gymnasium in his birth town. He joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1937. As a professor at the Commercial Academy he saw political changes in Yugoslavia in 1939, the most significant of which was the creation of Banovina Croatia. For much of World War II he was an adjutant at Supreme Ustaša Headquarters. Supreme Ustaša Headquarters directed the operation of the Independent State of Croatia.
At the end of World War II he retreated to Austria with the rest of the Ustaša army and civilians. During his stay in Austria he gained status as a prisoner of war, and left for another camp in Italy. During his transfer to the other camp, he jumped out of a train. To avoid extradition to Yugoslavia, Nikolić went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, arriving there on 8 June 1947. At first he lived in an old house with Ante Pavelić. They did not have much money and lived very cheaply. He worked as a journalist, and along with Franjo Nevistić, he published the magazine Hrvatska which he edited until June 1950. In the same year, along with Antun Bonifačić, he published the Croatian emigrant magazine Hrvatska revija, which he edited from the first published issue of magazine in 1951 until his death.
He edited other Croatian emigrant magazines, including Ave, Hrvatski vitez (Croatian knight), Oganj (Flame), Novi život (New life), Za Boga i Hrvatsku (For God and Croatia), Danica, La Croatie, Osoba i duh (Person and spirit), Islam, Glasnik društva Muslimana Austrije (Herald of Muslims of Austria), Hrvatski radnik (Croatian worker), Hrvatska gruda (Croatian land), Hrvatska sloboda (Croatian freedom) and Rakovica. After the fall of Yugoslavia, he returned to his birthplace of Šibenik, where he died on 12 July 1997.
Works
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