Milan Ćopić
Nickname(s)Emil
Born(1897-12-04)4 December 1897
Senj, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
(now Croatia)
Died1941(1941-00-00) (aged 43–44)
Allegiance Austria-Hungary
 Spanish Republic
Service/branchInternational Brigades
Years of service1936–1941
Commands heldXV International Brigade
Battles/warsSpanish Civil War

Milan Ćopić (4 December 1897 – 1941) was a Yugoslav Croatian communist who was in the International Brigades prison at Camp Lucász during the Spanish Civil War.[1]

He was the brother of Lt. Col. Vladimir Ćopić, commander of the XV International Brigade.[2]

Having arrived in Spain on 11 November 1936,[3] he was the director of the disciplinary prison of the International Brigades in Castelldefels (Barcelona). He was accused of extrajudicial executions and torture. He was tried by Republic in 1938 and sentenced to death, but the sentence was perhaps not executed due to the interference by his brother.

Ćopić died in 1941 in an unknown location, presumably a Nazi concentration camp, having been arrested in France that year.[4]

References and sources

  1. ↑ Očak, Ivan. "Ivan Ćopić (Prilog biografiji)" (PDF) (in Croatian). Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, pp 66-67
  3. ↑ "COPIC, Emil". SIDBRINT (in Catalan). University of Barcelona. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Penchienati, Carlo (1965) “I giustiziati accusano. Brigate internazionali in Spagna” Arte della Stampa, pag. 154; Lladós, Josep and Mario Reyes, Mario (1997) “Le presó secreta de les brigades” pp. 48-55 de “El Temps” nº 667, 31-3-1997. Valencia, pages 52 and 53, and González Moreno-Navarro, Manuel (2009) “Las brigadas internacionales. Su paso por Catalunya (Guerra Civil Española 1936-1939)”. Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias. Barcelona

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