'Croatian Institute of History (Hrvatski Institut za Povijest)'
Abstract
Autori u članku rekonstruiraju, na osnovu literature i dostupnih izvora (svjedočenja), slučaj Oslava Smodlake. Krajem Drugog svjetskog rata partizani su u Boki kotorskoj ubili niz viđenijih Hrvata. U dosadašnjoj hrvatskoj literaturi među tim Hrvatima redovito je ubrajan i Oslav Smodlaka. Međutim, Smodlaka je bio ubijen tek 1949. godine i to je najdrastičniji primjer kako se bokeljske Hrvate »uvjeravalo« da prihvate činjenicu da je Boka kotorska pripojena Crnoj Gori.Already during the existence of first Yugoslavia, there occurred the secession of Boka Kotorska from Dalmatia, i. e. Croatia. During the entire World War II, the expression Montenegro and Boka Kotorska was in use, but towards the end of war the Boka Kotorska was simply dropped from the syntagma. This was accompanied by all sorts of pressures on Croatian populace there. There are numerous cases of imprisonment\u27s and murders Croats from Boka at the end of war and during the immediate years after. The fate of Oslav Smodlaka, a photographer from Tivat, best illustrates the difficulties that Croats experienced there. Smodlaka was recognized by historiography as a Croat assassinated at the end of war. Actually, he was killed in 1949. Simply because he refused to relocate, he was declared state enemy, tortured to the point of turning gray in one single night, and finally killed. He left a spouse and an elevenmonth daughter. The fate of O. Smodlaka served as a disciplining measure for the rest of Croats in Boka, who lived under a permanent fear and oppression
