RAVSIGUR explained

RAVSIGUR, a shortening of Croatian: Ravnateljstvo za javni red i sigurnost ('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.^[1] The system was similar in concept to that used in Germany under the Third Reich.^[2]

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General references

• 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).

Notes and References

1. http://www.axishistory.com/axis-nations/croatia/ustasha/159-croatia-ustasha/croatia-ustasha-unsorted/8142-croatian-regular-police-or-police-guard "Croatian Regular Police of Police Guard"
2. http://ustaski-pokret.com/html/ravsigur.html "RAVSIGUR"