Milan Ćopić (4 December 1897 – 1941) was a Yugoslav Croatian communist who was in the

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prison at Camp Lucász during the

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. He was the brother of Lt. Col.

Vladimir Ćopić Vladimir "Senjko" Ćopić (8 March 1891 – 19 April 1939) was a Yugoslav revolutionary, politician, journalist and communist leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from April 1919 to August 1920. Biography Born into a family of mixed Croat a ...

, commander of the

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. Having arrived in Spain on 11 November 1936, he was the director of the disciplinary prison of the

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(

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). He was accused of extrajudicial executions and torture. He was tried by Republic in 1938 and sentenced to death, but the sentence was perhaps not executed due to the interference by his brother. Ćopić died in 1941 in an unknown location, presumably a Nazi concentration camp, having been arrested in France that year.Penchienati, Carlo (1965) “I giustiziati accusano. Brigate internazionali in Spagna” Arte della Stampa, pag. 154; Lladós, Josep and Mario Reyes, Mario (1997) “Le presó secreta de les brigades” pp. 48-55 de “El Temps” nº 667, 31-3-1997. Valencia, pages 52 and 53, and González Moreno-Navarro, Manuel (2009) “Las brigadas internacionales. Su paso por Catalunya (Guerra Civil Española 1936-1939)”. Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias. Barcelona

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