Miroslav Filipović

Miroslav Filipović (5 June 1915 – 1946), also known as Tomislav Filipović and Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović, was a Croatian Nazi collaborator, Franciscan friar and military chaplain. A convicted war criminal, he was executed in 1946.

During World War II in Yugoslavia, he participated in mass murder of Serbs, Jews and Roma, as well as Croat and Bosniak dissidents, by the Croatian Ustaše regime, particularly in the Jasenovac concentration camp. His savagery earned him the epithets "The Devil of Jasenovac" and "Brother Satan".

During the war, Filipović was convicted of war crimes by a German military court, but then released to officiate in a prison camp. In 1946, after the defeat of the Ustaše, a Yugoslav civil court executed him by hanging.

Filipović's date of birth was 5 June 1915, but little else about his early years has been recorded. In 1938 he joined the Franciscan Order at Petrićevac monastery, Banja Luka, and took “Tomislav” as his religious name.

In 1941, following establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet state installed by the Axis Powers embracing Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as most of Croatia by the Ustaše, an organisation of extremist Croatian nationalists, Filipović was assigned to a chaplaincy in the Rama region in northern Herzegovina but did not take up the assignment. In January 1942, after completing his theological exams in Sarajevo, he became a military chaplain with the Ustaša. A report by the State Commission of Croatia for the Investigation of the Crimes of the Occupation Forces and their Collaborators (SCC), Section D-XXVI, entitled Crimes in the Jasenovac Camp (Zagreb 1946) is publicly available in English and Serbian.

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