asylum, the Spanish authorities did not allow him public appearances. In the middle of 1958, he sent a message from Madrid to the Assembly of Croatian Societies in Munich. He expressed his wish that all Croats unite with the goal of re-establishing the Independent State of Croatia. Some groups distanced themselves from Pavelić and others did so after his death. In his will, he named as his successor as the president of the Croatian Liberation Movement. Pavelić died on 28 December 1959 at the Hospital Alemán in Madrid at the age of 70 from the wounds he sustained in the assassination attempt by Jovović. He was buried in San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid's oldest private burial ground. In popular culture Harry Turtledove's short story Ready for the Fatherland is set in an alternate history where the Independent State of Croatia continues to exist in 1979. Pavelić is revered as the first Poglavnik and his image appears on the State's primary currency, but no further details are shared as to how his life played out in that timeline, which diverged from ours in February 1943. In a 2015 Croatian comedy film National Hero Lily Vidić, Pavelić is portrayed by Dražen Čuček. The movie follows a group of Yugoslav partisans, led by a young poet Lily Vidić, who compete in the NDH's fictional talent show "Factor X" whose winner wins the chance to perform at the Pavelić's reception for Hitler. Partisans see it as an opportunity to kill both Hitler and Pavelić, and thus end WWII. In 2017, the movie was adapted into a theatrical play where Pavelić was portrayed by Boris Mirković. References Notes Bibliography Books Journal articles News articles External links 1889 births 1959 deaths Yugoslav lawyers Articles containing video clips Croatian collaborators with Fascist Italy Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany Croatian exiles Croatian independence activists Croatian lawyers Croatian nationalists Croatian people of World War II Croatian Roman Catholics Deaths by firearm in Spain Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni Fascist rulers Fugitives Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia perpetrators Holocaust perpetrators in Yugoslavia Independent State of Croatia Male murder victims Party of Rights politicians People from Konjic People from the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina People sentenced to death in absentia Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians Representatives in the Yugoslav National Assembly (1921–1941) Romani genocide perpetrators Ustaše World War II political leaders Yugoslav fascists Croats of