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Revision as of 16:05, 19 March 2009
Petar Brzica (1917[1] - ?) was a fascist and World War II war criminal.
Before the war, Brzica was a scholarship student at the Franciscan college of Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina and a member of the "Great Brotherhood of Crusaders". While studying the law in Zagreb, he became a member of the Croatian fascist Ustashe Youth and later of the general Ustaša organization and one of the guards in the Jasenovac concentration camp.[2] As an Ustashe he held the rank of a lieutenant.[3][4]
At Jasenovac, while he is known for having beaten an inmate to death in March 1943,[5] he became notorious for having won a a contest in which he used a curve-bladed knife, a srbosjek, to kill newly-arrived concentration camp prisoners.[6][7][8][9] He boasted of winning the contest by killing the largest number of prisoners, reportedly 1360 people[10][11], other sources claim lower numbers of 670[12] or 1100.[13]
As of 2009, Brzica has been neither found nor apprehended.
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- ^ Jasenovac: The Jewish Serbian Holocaust (the Role of the Vatican) in Nazi-Ustasha Croatia (1941-1945) by Milan Bulajić, Svetlana Šarčević, Jelena Popović, Published by Fund for Genocide Research, 2002, (page 215)
Petar Brzica, 25 years old, a Franciscan of the "Order of Friars Minor", a scholar from Široki Brijeg monastery, the Ustasha captain, the "king of butchers" in the Jasenovac camps (according to the testimony of Ustasha criminal Mile Friganović), in only one night, on 29 August 1942, in the competition in slaughtering he killed 1 360 internees,... - ^ Špijun u mantiji by Siniša Ivanović, Nova knjiga Belgrade, 1987 page 78
- ^ Sećanja Jevreja na logor Jasenovac by Dušan Sindik, Savez jevrejskih opština Jugoslavije 1972 - page 154
Then the Ustashe butchers came: Ljubo Miloš along with a wolfhound and Ustashe lieutant Pero Brzica who started /from the left flank of the human formation/ interrogating what were the occupations of these people. - ^ State-commission of Croatia for the investigation of the crimes of the occupation forces and their collaborators (Lo http://www.jasenovac-info.com/cd/biblioteka/jasenovac1946/jasenovac-1946_en.html ), p. 73. The names of his leauge-fellow, Ante Zrinusic, also there. Of Ljubo Milos and the wolfhound lo Djuro Schwartz, "in the Jasenovac camp of death"(ג'ורו שווארץ, "במחנות המוות של יאסנובאץ"), p. 300
- ^ State-commission, p. 50
- ^ Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia by Barry M. Lituchy Jasenovac Research Institute; First edition, New York 2006
Another historian, Teophilo Gardini, reports a very strange contest of "Serbian throat-cutting" - won on August 29, 1942 by a certain Petar Brzica, a former Franciscan of the Široki Brijeg Monastery - ^ Dr. Nikola Nikolic testimony, see in: Avro Manhattan, "Vatican's holocaust", p. 48 and Taborišče smrti--Jasenovac by Nikola Nikolić (author), Jože Zupančić (translator) Published 1969 Založba "Borec" - page 293
- ^ Nedjo Zec quotes Ustasa Mile Friganovic, here: The Role of the Vatican in the Breakup of the Yugoslav State, by Dr. Milan Bulajić, Belgrade, 1994: 156-157; from a Jan., 1943, interview with Mile Friganović by psychiatrist Dr. Nedjo Zec, who was also an inmate at Jasenovac. http://www.jasenovac-info.com/cd/biblioteka/wschindley-jasenovac_en.html
- ^ Witness Ljubomir Saric quotes Ustasa Ante Zrinusic Dinko Sakic trial, Ljubomir Saric testimony,15.4.1999, at: http://public.carnet.hr/sakic/hinanews/arhiva/9904/hina-15-g.html
- ^ The Glass Half Full by Alan Greenhalgh ISBN 0977584410 page 68
Wherever they went they experienced similar cruelty from the Ustashe guards. They heard stories about the fierce butcher, Petar Brzica, who boasted that during one night alone he killed 1,360 prisoners - ^ Jasenovac: The Jewish Serbian Holocaust (the Role of the Vatican) in Nazi-Ustasha Croatia (1941-1945) by Milan Bulajić, Svetlana Šarčević, Jelena Popović ...(page 215)
- ^ Taborišče smrti--Jasenovac by Nikola Nikolić (author), Jože Zupančić (translator) Published 1969 Založba "Borec" - page 293
Tisto noč je ustaš Pero Brzica v hitrosti in spretnosti svojega krvniškega posla prekosil vse ustaške klavce. Sam je namreč zaklal 670 internircev jasenovškega taborišča. Med seboj so tekmovali v klavskem poslu Brzica, Bonzo, Šipka, Zrinušić in še nekaj drugi klavci, ki pa so za Brzico znatno zaostajali - ^ "Nedjelja", Zagreb, October 19, 1942 referenced in Sângeroasa destrămare: Iugoslavia by C. I. Christian, published by Editura Sylvi, 1994 ISBN 9739175015, 9789739175012 (page 170)