Ustaška nadzorna služba

  • Ustasha Surveillance Service
Identifier
UNS
Language of Description
English
Dates
1941 - 1951
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • Bosnian
  • Croatian
  • Serbo-Croatian
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Acquisition

Gathered from different sources during early fifties.

Scope and Content

The complete structure of the Ustasha Surveillance Service, the most powerful police establishment of the Independent Croatian state (during World War II), can be found in the collection and these materials have been used as basic source material for numerous scientific papers, doctorates, and publications of local and foreign researchers. Contains records of activities of the Ustasha Surveillance Service regional office in Sarajevo, with documentation regarding fight against Partisans and Serbian (Chetniks) resistance, daily and weekly intelligence reports about the political situation in the region, investigation of the activities of the local individuals suspected in the clandestine Communist work or contacts with Communist partisans and Chetniks, reports about attacks and murders organized by Chetniks and partisans against local supporters of the Ustasha regime, etc.

Conditions Governing Access

The museum material is classified in 8 museum collections and is available to scientific, cultural, and public researchers, students, and professors. The Museum is open for researchers every working day. Before starting research it is necessary to contact the head of the collection and complete a form for accessing museum holdings.

Archivist Note

Description was made by Adnan Tinjic.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0