Ljubo Miloš
| Ljubo Miloš | |
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Miloš in an Ustaše uniform
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| Birth name | Ljubomir Miloš |
| Born |
25 February 1919 Bosanski Šamac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 20 August 1948 (aged 29) Zagreb, SR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance |
 Independent State of Croatia Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Ustaše Croatian Home Guard
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| Years of service | 1941–45 |
| Commands held | Commander of Jasenovac concentration camp, Commander of Lepoglava prison |
Ljubomir "Ljubo" Miloš (25 February 1919 – 20 August 1948) was an Ustaše official in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. He served as commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp on several occasions and was responsible for various atrocities committed there during the war. He fled Yugoslavia in May 1945 and sought refuge in Austria. In 1947, he returned to Yugoslavia with the intention of starting an anti-communist uprising. He was soon arrested by Yugoslav authorities and charged with war crimes. Miloš was found guilty on all counts and hanged in August 1948.
Miloš was born in Bosanski Šamac on 25 February 1919. He attended primary school in Orašje and Bosanski Brod and finished secondary school in Subotica. He stayed in Subotica and worked as a municipal clerk.
On 6 April 1941, Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Poorly equipped and poorly trained, the Royal Yugoslav Army was quickly defeated. Yugoslavia was then dismembered and the extreme Croat nationalist and fascist Ante Pavelić, who had been in exile in Benito Mussolini's Italy, was appointed Poglavnik (leader) of an Ustaše-led Croatian state – the Independent State of Croatia (often called the NDH, from the Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska). The NDH combined almost all of modern-day Croatia, all of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of modern-day Serbia into an "Italian-German quasi-protectorate". NDH authorities, led by the Ustaše militia, subsequently implemented genocidal policies against the Serb, Jewish and Romani population living within the borders of the new state.
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