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Sep 23, 1915 Bihać, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina Died on 12 Jan 1947 (aged 31)
Croatian fascist
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About Zdenko Blaekovi
- Zdenko Blažekovic (23 September 1915 – 12 January 1947) was a Croatian fascist official who held several posts in the World War II Ustaše regime in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
- He was the student commissar at the Ustaše University Centre (USS), leader of the male Ustaše Youth organisation and a sports commissioner in the NDH.
- Born in the town of Bihac, he graduated from high school in Osijek before applying to join a polytechnic college in Zagreb with the intention of becoming a builder.
- He was a member of various Croatian cultural and athletic organizations during his youth, and even played as goalkeeper for Hajduk Osijek and HAŠK football clubs. Briefly a member of the conservative Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Blažekovic was imprisoned several times by the Yugoslav authorities because of his involvement with various Croatian youth organizations which saw him often involved in clashes with left-wing students.
- He joined the far-right Ustaše in 1939, and following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the Ustaše-led NDH in April 1941, went on to be appointed to the newly formed Ustaše supervisory committee by Slavko Kvaternik.
- That same month he also became the leader of the Ustaše University Headquarters and the Ustaše Youth, charged with organizing student bodies at the University of Zagreb and promoting Ustaše's policy of preventing all non-Croats from attending universities in the country. In 1942 he was involved in the formation of the 13th Ustaše Assault Company and by 1943 had attained a seat in the Croatian Parliament.
- Between 1942 and 1943 he was involved in recruiting students to join Ante Pavelic's personal bodyguard and was promoted to the rank of major.
- He held the position of head of the Ustaše University Headquarters and Ustaše Youth until January 1945, when he was appointed Commissioner for Physical Education and Sport.
- Blažekovic fled Zagreb from the advancing Yugoslav Partisans in May 1945 and ended up in a refugee camp in Salzburg, Austria.
- In August, he was arrested by American forces who extradited him to Yugoslavia on 12 February 1946.
- He was tried in Zagreb on 12 January 1947, sentenced to death, and executed the same day.
