Antun Najžer, also known by the hypocorism Ante Najzer, was a Croatian physician and member of the fascist Ustaše movement who served as the commander of the Sisak children's concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.[1] He was dubbed the "Croatian Mengele" by survivors[2] due to conducting medical experiments on his victims.[3] For these crimes, in September 1946 he was sentenced to execution by a firing squad.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Matejcic, Marinella (6 February 2015). "The Ustashi Legacy: Remembering the Children's Concentration Camp in Sisak". globalvoices.com. Global Voices. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Milekic, Sven (6 October 2014). "WWII Children's Concentration Camp Remembered in Croatia". Balkan Insight. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Retrieved 3 March 2018. "We had a similar treatment [in Auschwitz] as children in the Ustasa-German camp in Sisak," said the Croatian-born Lustig. "They had doctor [Antun] Najzer [the camp's commander], we had the infamous doctor Mengele," he said.
  3. ↑ "Logori u Sisku i Capragu" [Camps in Sisak and Caprag]. jadovno.com (in Serbian). 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. ↑ Ognjenović, Gorana; Jozelić, Jasna, eds. (2016). Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito's Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 75. ISBN 9781137597434.
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