Ljubo Miloš

Who was Ljubo Miloš?

Ljubomir Miloš was an official of the Croatian World War II regime. As an Ustaše, he was the head of the Independent State of Croatia secret service.

Miloš was also a commandant in the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp. He was second in rank, under the administration of Ivica Matković. He was a very sadistic and pathological commander. He did not tolerate escape attempts, for any of which he would order collective punishments in the hundreds. Miloš was often seen riding his horse, trampling and shooting inmates or killing emaciated inmates, who stretched their hands out for food, as they were fed with one meal of fodder made of cattle turnip.

Miloš pretended to be a doctor of medicine. Witness Flumiani Milan stated:

Additionally, whenever a transport of Jews came into the camp, Miloš would dress up as a physician, have the guards bring him the people who needed medical help, take them to an "ambulance", put them against a wall, and "with a strike of the knife cut the victim's throat, shear his ribs and slit open his belly." He was highly proud of this "ritual slaughter of the 'Yids' [Jews]"

Miloš also had other mental disorders, he grew a wolf-hound, "Foxy" and taught it to assault inmates. He took as an acolyte an Ustase-youth member, Marijan and taught him to beat and kill inmates. "Five Orthodox priests were led out... They were ordered to sing hymns... One of them, a man of over eighty... was immediately beaten with rifle butts... [O]ne of the Ustashi - a child of twelve years old - bent over the old man and took out his dagger. In a moment, he had cut off both the priest's ears. He turned grinning to his companions, saying: I'll show them at home tomorrow what sort of ears a Vlach priest has! The Ustashi seized the other four... Miloš set their beards on fire. Then, after such terrible tortures, they killed them."