Oštarski Stanovi is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
. It is connected by the
D1 highway.
History
In 1941, Dragan Božičević was designated as its
Ustaša ''zbirnik''.
With the withdrawal of the Italians, the chances of a successful Serb rebellion increased. Shortly after the
Drvar uprising,
Božidar Cerovski, director of the Directorate of the Ustaša Police, arrived in
Slunj
Slunj is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, on the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjčica. Slunj has a popu ...
, on the evening of 29 July 1941, along with an undetermined number of Ustaše from
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...
for the removal of "undesirable elements". In the morning of the 30th, they broke up into several groups and walked through Serb inhabitted settlements with lists of such individuals, detaining them and transporting them to Oštarski Stanovi, where they were executed, 106 in number, on the order of Cerovski.
On 1 July 1942, Partisans attacked the
Domobran garrison Oštarski Stanovi and
Rakovica, killing 1 and wounding 2; several Partisans were killed and wounded.
References
Bibliography
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Populated places in Karlovac County
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