29: A Tale of Two Nazis - Lazar Prokić and Strahinja Janjić (teaser)

The Empire Never Ended

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Straight from the archives of UDBA, Socialist Yugoslavia's state security agency, this episode follows Lazar Prokic (law student turned Nazi intelligence agent) and Strahinja Janić (all-around psychopath and founder of the Serbian Gestapo). Rey explains how Prokić found himself at the confluence of several fascist intelligence streams, returning to Belgrade first as a Nazi propagandist and second with the Ustaša invasion forces, only to end up as a valuable asset for Tito's Yugoslavia. Compare his career to ultraviolent bandit and official arm of the Nazis in Serbia, Janjić, "one of the worst pieces of shit covered so far", who gets himself booted out of the royal Yugoslav army for being a drunken idiot and calling everyone "gay" only to find himself pillaging Serbian cities for the Nazis. Rey recounts some of Janjić's worst deeds, including his participation in the massacre at Kragujevac and subsequent appointment as its mayor, and his ultimate escape from justice. Also featured: the bizarre Anti-Masonic Exhibition in 1941, some bonus tidbits from the OSS, and some surprising revelations from the UDBA archives concerning some very successful Nazi infiltrators in the Partisan movement and Tito's fledgling state.

This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that...

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