as Luburić ordered his release on 23 December 1942. In January 1943, Miloš joined the Croatian Home Guard (Hrvatsko domobranstvo) and was stationed in Mostar. He returned to Zagreb in April 1943, where he remained until spring the following year. In September, he was named commander of Lepoglava prison. Capture and death By the end of World War II, Miloš had attained the rank of Major. He fled Yugoslavia at the beginning of May 1945, and withdrew through Austria to Allied-controlled northern Italy with help from the Roman Catholic church. He soon returned to Austria and established links with Croatian émigrés there. He illegally crossed the Yugoslav–Hungarian border in 1947 with the intention of infiltrating Croatia with anti-communist guerrillas known as Crusaders (križari). Miloš was arrested by Yugoslav authorities on 20 July 1947, charged with war crimes and tried the following year. During his trial, he confessed to killing Jasenovac inmates and testified that the Ustaše had drawn up plans for the extermination of Serbs long before 1941. Miloš was found guilty on all counts on 20 August 1948 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of the People's Republic of Croatia. He was hanged in Zagreb the same day. Notes References 1919 births 1948 deaths Anti-Serbian sentiment Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany Croatian nationalists Croatian people of World War II Croatian Roman Catholics Executed Croatian people Fugitives Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia perpetrators Holocaust perpetrators in Yugoslavia People executed by Yugoslavia by hanging People from Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina Romani genocide perpetrators Ustaše Ustaše concentration camp personnel Yugoslav anti-communists People executed for war crimes Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants Executed mass murderers