Janka-Puszta

Mijo Kralj, Vlado Chernozemski and Zvonimir Pospišil performing training exercises at Janka-Puszta
The assassin of Alexander I of Yugoslavia Chernozemski as instructor in Janka-Puszta, 1934.

Janka-Puszta or Jankovac was a training camp set up for the Ustashe organisation in 1931.[1] The camp was located in the Zala County of Hungary, close to the border of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia near the villages of Murakeresztúr and Belezna. The camp was one of a string of training camps established in Hungary and Italy by the Ustashe. It housed several hundred émigré recruits, mostly manual laborers returning from Western Europe and North America. The recruits swore an oath of loyalty to the leader of the Ustashe, Ante Pavelić, took part in militant exercises, and produced anti-Serb propaganda material.[2]

  1. ^ Paris, Edmond (1961). Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941-1945. King's. p. 23. ISBN 1258163462.
  2. ^ Lampe 2000, p. 175.