RAVSIGUR, a shortening of ' ('Directorate for Public Order and Security'), later known as GRAVSIGUR in 1943, was a
Croatian supervisory department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The purpose of the department was to supervise police activities in Croatia. The system was similar in concept to that used in Germany under the
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
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"RAVSIGUR"
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*Hory, Ladislaus and Martin Broszat (1964) ''Der Kroatische Ustascha-Staat 1941-1945'' (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt), p.146; NARA Washington, DC: RG 242 (T-315 roll 2271/172); (T-821 roll 278/478-79; roll 448/670).
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