Mile Budak

Chief propagandist of the Nazi puppet state, the fascist Independent State of Croatia. Responsible for laws that sought to exterminate Serbs, Jews and Roma. In a speech in Gospić in 22 July 1941, he declared: “The movement of the Ustashi is based on faith. For the minorities we have three million bullets. We shall kill one part of the serbs, expel the second part and convert to Catholicism the third part of them”.

He was a mediocre author at best, still enjoying high praise among the Croat fascist population in Croatia and abroad. He was captured by the British military, handed over to the Yugoslav Partisans on 18 May 1945. He was court-martialled in Zagreb on 6 June and was sentenced to death by hanging the same day. He was executed the following day. During the trial, Budak claimed that he was not guilty of anything, which only proves his utter commitment to his genocidal fascist ideology. He got what he deserved, as all the Hitler’s men at the Nürnberg trials.

Mile Budak was a murderous, genocidal fascist.