Abstract
This paper analyzes the life and activities of Janko Janković, head of a card files of the IV Anti-Communist Division, the Special Police Department. Janko Janković was originally a Kragujevac resident, where he received his elementary education, after which he moved to Belgrade and started working in the Belgrade City Administration. He first worked as the chief of the General Police department card file, and from 1941 he was transferred to the same position in the Special Police Department. Almost simultaneously, he connected with the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Serbia and began to inform them of the activities and plans of the Anti-Communist Division of Belgrade City Administration. He actively cooperated with the Communist movement until early October 1943, when he was discovered and arrested, and then executed by shooting on April 27, 1944, in Marinkova bara. It is believed that he helped about 2000 people with his activity. In the paper we tried to objectively analyze his position and activities from the angle of historical science.
Highlights
The Belgrade City Administration, which existed during the Second World War, represented the continuation of development of this institution throughout the 19th and 20th century
After the Second World War, an initiative was launched to declare Janko Janković the National Hero, the case was handed over to the Central Committee of the SC Yugoslavia in October 1966 by a group established at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, signed by Vilotije Beličić and Ljubiša Ilić
The Communist Party remained silent on this initiative, just as it remained silent on the initiative later filed by Blagoje Nešković, the former secretary of the Provincial Committee (PC) for Serbia
Summary
The Belgrade City Administration, which existed during the Second World War, represented the continuation of development of this institution throughout the 19th and 20th century. Janko Janković (1909 – 1944) – The Intelligence Officer in the Special Police Department 303 lawlessness until the arrival of the Germans (Bozovic 2014: 30) This situation lasted for a short time, because the appointment of Drago Jovanović took place on April 21, former Assistant of the Belgrade City Administration and adviser of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, appointed for Belgrade’s “extraordinary commissioner”. The connection with the Communist movement and the role of Janko Janković became significant when Janko was transferred to the General Police Department of the Belgrade City Administration, known as the Political Police. According to Nemanja Marković’s memories, he was the one who, on his return to Kragujevac, first conveyed to Moma Marković, a member of the Provincial Committee at that time, the idea that Janko Janković worked for the PC. About the relationship with Janko Janković knew a very narrow circle of people in the party leadership
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