ZAPADNONEMAČKI MEDIJI O UBISTVU STJEPANA ĐUREKOVIĆA 1983. GODINE

Abstract

One of the most difficult problems faced by socialist Yugoslavia was the activities of Yugoslav émigrés in the West. After World War II, organizations of émigrés fought against the Yugoslav regime in different ways. They organized propaganda campaigns, lobbying, demonstrations, but also terrorist attacks on Yugoslav interests in Yugoslavia and abroad. Prior to his escape to the FR Germany in 1982, Stjepan Đureković was one of the directors of the Croatian oil concern INA. In the FR Germany, Đureković connected with Croatian émigrés and published books in which he fiercely criticized the Yugoslav regime. He was killed in July 1983 in Wolfratshausen, not far from Munich. Considering Đureković’s political backgroung, the Western press, especially the West German media, paid great attention to his assassination in the summer of 1983. Most of the West German media made assumptions about the involvement of the Yugoslav secret police (State Security Service/Služba državne bezbednosti) in the assassination of Đureković and many other Croatian political émigrés in West Germany, thus damaging the image that the Yugoslav regime was persistently creating for itself. The largest part of the research is based on the analysis of documents from the Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia.

Keywords

• stjepan đureković
• émigrés
• state security service
• murder
• federal republic of germany