Irska godina Andrije Artukovića Cupek Hamill, Mirjana
Časopis za suvremenu povijest,
10/2014, Letnik:
46, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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At the end of March 1947, Andrija Artuković, under the name of Prof. Alois Anich, and the Franciscan friar Dr. Louis Ivandich, as his companion and relative, applied for visas in the Irish embassy in ...Berne, Switzerland. Attached to their applications were two letters of recommendation from the General of the Franciscan Order of Switzerland, Dr. Seraphim Berchten, in which he praised Dr. Anich as an important supporter of the Catholic Church, on the run from the Communist regime in Yugoslavia and somebody who could provide the Irish government with valuable information about Yugoslavia. After a brief hesitation and in spite of a recommendation from a high ranking official in the Department of Justice not to grant visas to those two individuals, final approval arrived from the Department of External Affairs in May 1947. Ivandich, Anich and his family arrived in Ireland on the 15th July and stayed there for a year. After the expiry of their visas, Ivandich left for Canada, and the Artukovichs for the USA. Soon after that the real identity of Anich was revealed and he started his struggle to stay in the USA as a displaced person. This article analyzes the short-lived dilemma of the Irish administration prior issuing the visas and tries to answer the question of what motives lay behind it, i.e. were the visas granted with the full knowledge of the Artukovich’s identity, in spite of it, because of it, or absent it. The author concludes that there was no knowledge of Anich’s real identity so the visas were not granted out of any alleged “pro-Nazi” inclinations of the then Irish administration but rather because of “Catholic solidarity” and the strong anti-Communist sentiment that marked contemporary Irish politics and political culture.
Original language summary:
Na nádvoří pankrácké věznice byla postavena šibenice. Přední nacista, bývalý říšský protektor Karl Hermann Frank byl naším soudem za válečné zločiny odsouzen k smrti ...pověšením. Poprava byla vykonána za účasti tisku a veřejnosti.
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Československé filmové týdeníky byly původně vysílány v kinech v letech 1945 až 1989. Od roku 1995 jsou opět vysílány v České televizi každý týden přesně po padesáti letech. Uvedené datum vysílání je datum prvního uvedení tohoto týdeníku ve vysílání České televize.
Czechoslovak Newsreels were produced and shown between 1945 and 1989. Since 1995 they have been broadcast on TV exactly 50 years after their original run in theaters. The broadcast date provided is the date of the first transmission of this news item on Czech Television.
Gallows were built in the courtyard of Pankrác prison. A leading Nazi, the former Reichsprotector, Karl Hermann Frank, was condemned of war crimes to death by hanging by our court. The sentence was executed with the participation of the press and the public.
Original language summary:
Hromadné hroby podél cesty, kudy pochodovali vězňové z koncentračního tábora Johanngeorgenstadt do Lovosic. Při hledání hrobů pomáhají dva uprchnuvší z pochodu smrti. ...Lékaři nyní provádějí exhumaci, určování příčiny smrti a identifikaci obětí. Potom následoval důstojný pohřeb obětí v Karlových Varech. Vůdce pochodu esesák Fink čeká zatím na výrok spravedlnosti za mřížemi pankrácké věznice
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Československé filmové týdeníky byly původně vysílány v kinech v letech 1945 až 1989. Od roku 1995 jsou opět vysílány v České televizi každý týden přesně po padesáti letech. Uvedené datum vysílání je datum prvního uvedení tohoto týdeníku ve vysílání České televize.
Czechoslovak Newsreels were produced and shown between 1945 and 1989. Since 1995 they have been broadcast on TV exactly 50 years after their original run in theaters. The broadcast date provided is the date of the first transmission of this news item on Czech Television.
Mass graves along the road which prisoners from the Johanngeorgenstadt concentration camp marched to Lovosice. Two escapees from the death march help with searching graves. Doctors are now performing exhumations, the determination of causes of death and the identification of victims. Then the dignified burial of the victims follows in Carlsbad. The leader of the march, the SS man Fink, is still waiting for the statement of justice behind bars of Pankrác prison.
