Ivan Prpić (12 March 1887 – 10 January 1967,

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) was a Croatian infantry general of the Croatian Home Guard and its chief of staff from 1942 to 1943. He received the

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in 1942. In August 1943 there was an assassination attempt on Prpić. Some sources allege that it was organized by

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, and partly motivated by personal rivalry. In 1944 Prpić retired and moved with his family to the

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, and later to

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in the reestablished

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. He was arrested by the British there in August 1945 and taken back to

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. After questioning in

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and

he was released in October. Prpić was one of few generals of the

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not to be sentenced by the communist regime in Yugoslavia, and was interred at

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.Ivan Prpić profile
, gradskagroblja.hr; accessed 16 October 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prpic, Ivan 1887 births 1967 deaths Croatian Home Guard personnel Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery Recipients of the Military Order of the Iron Trefoil World War II prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom