NEMAČKI ČOVEK: ULOGA PUKOVNIKA TANASIJA DINIĆA TOKOM DRUGOG SVETSKOG RATA

Abstract

Tanasije Dinić was a hero from the Balkans and the First World War, a military intelligence officer, a man for special tasks of King Alexander Karadjordjević and a Member of Parliament during the interwar period. Apparently, before the Second World War, he also became an informant of the German intelligence service. In this paper, the author analyzes his career during the Second World War. During this period, he was a man of great trust of the occupiers. He was given special tasks such as investigating the March 27 coup, re-establishing the state administration and police formations. He was also the Minister of the Interior and Social Policy and Public Health. In privately he wrote reports for the occupier in which he analyzed various topics. He was one of the main people in charge of removing officials who were assessed as ideologically, politically and racially “unreliable”. He did not enjoy the trust of Prime Minister Milan Nedić, who considered Dinić to be a strict exponent of the Germans. This caused delays and tensions during his appointments, as well as numerous difficulties in his work. Dinić remained a German man until the end of the Second World War. In a situation where it was clear that Germans had lost the war, he met in Berlin with key people from the police and security sector, Ernst Kaltenbruner and Heinrich Miller. After the end of the war, he was arrested by the authorities in Yugoslavia and sentenced to death.