WHO WAS THE CROATIAN WORLD WAR II LEADER WHO DIED IN EXILE, 1959, IN MADRID, SPAIN??”
Ante Pavelić (July 14, 1889 – December 28, 1959) was the leader (Poglavnik) and founding member of the Croatian national socialist/fascist Ustaše movement in the 1930s and later the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany during World War II. [edit] Early life Pavelić was born north of Konjic in Bradina, a small village c. 15 kilometres south west of Hadžići in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Austria-Hungary. As an adult, Ante Pavelić decided to move to Zagreb to study for a degree in law. An extremist even in his youth, he became a member of the organization known as the “Frankovci” whose founder, Dr. Josip Frank, was the father-in-law of Slavko Kvaternik, the first Croat to be elevated to the rank of Field Marshal. In 1919 he was the interim secretary of the Pure Party of Rights. In 1921 he was arrested along with several other members of the party but was released; he defended them at the trial and lost. Kvaternik had long been a strong advocate of Cr
