Talk:Eduard Miloslavić

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Eduard Miloslavic (1884-1952) was a descendant of Dubrovnik emigrants to the USA, born in Oakland, California. His father Luko came from Župa Dubrovačka (10 km from Dubrovnik) to Dubrovnik in 1878. In same year he marries Vica Milkovic. Few years after they immigrated to USA. Entire family, Luko, Vica, Eduard and his brothers and sisteras, returned to Dubrovnik in 1889.

Ed studied medicine in Vienna, where he became a professor of pathology. In 1920 an invitation came from the Marquette University in Wisconsin, USA, to take the chair of the full professor of pathology, bacteriology and forensic medicine.

In subsequent years "Doc Milo", as colleagues called him, inaugurated criminal pathology in the USA.

As an outstanding specialist he was also involved in investigations of crimes perpetrated by Al Capone gang. He was one of the founders of the International Academy for Forensic Medicine, member of many American and European scientific societies and academies, and also vice president of the Croatian Fraternal Union (CFU) in the USA.

In 1932 he moved to Zagreb, where he was a full professor at the Faculty of medicine until 1944, when he moved again to the USA. He was lecturing also pastoral medicine at the Faculty of Theology in Zagreb, and was known as ardent adversary of abortion and euthanasia. In 1940 he was elected member of the prestigious "Medico-Legal Society" in London, in 1941 promoted the full member of the Tzarist Leopoldine Carolingue Academy of Natural Sciences in Germany, and doctor "honoris causa" at the University of Vienna, where he started his scientific career.

It is important to note that after his initiative in 1941 the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo was founded in 1944 during the NDH regime.

Katyn wood
In 1943 investigation of the slaughter of 12,000 Polish officers perpetrated by Soviets in the Katyn wood in 1940. One of the great tragedies of the Second World War was the slaughter of 12,000 Polish officers in the Katyn wood (Poland) in 1940. Also a mass grave with more than thousand Ukrainian peasants and workers in Vinica (Ukraine), killed in 1938, was found by Germans. The Soviets accused Germans for these horrible crimes, and vice versa. Among leading European experts from 12 countries in pathological anatomy, two Croatian specialists were invited by the International Committee of the Red Cross to take part in the investigation in 1943: prof.dr. Eduard Miloslavic and prof.dr. Ljudevit Jurak. The result was that this cold-blooded mass slaughter was committed by the Soviets. Prof.dr. Miloslavic emigrated in time to the USA(St.Louis, Missouri), where he was working until his death, while prof. Jurak remained in Zagreb, and was imprisoned on the demand of the Russian NKVD by the Yugoslav communists in May 1945. It was offered to him that he would not be accused as a military criminal and that his life would be spared if he declared that his report for the Red Cross Comeetee had been signed under pressure. He refused to do so, fully aware of the consequence. According to an article published in Vjesnik, December 27, 1992, due to his testimonies related to Katyn wood tragedy, Prof. Miloslavic was sentenced to death in absence by the ex-Yugoslavia.

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The article as I found it appears above, and it was here when I came in. It will make for easy reference. I chopped this article pretty hard, I'm afraid, in the course of trying to correct its English and make it more encyclopedic. The section above headed "Katyn wood" is mostly extraneous here and is covered completely in its own article, easily reached by the link in "Katyn." Also, it is emotionally charged, not at all NPOV. The matter in it having to do directly with Miloslavic I made into a paragraph.

There remain some problems:

•The Red Cross investigation mentioned here is not mentioned in the main article "Katyn massacre."

•The biography peters out in 1944.

•Exactly what "initiative" did he take in 1941?

•What is the NDH regime?

I will watch this article and will refine it further as I get more information from this talk page. Milkbreath 00:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

The Red Cross did not investigate anything in Katyn. Miloslavic was invited by Germans (according to my source - Yazborovskaya and others "Katyn syndrome" ISBN 5-8243-0197-2 - he asked for taking part in the German investigation on his own initiative). Also there is no mention of "prof.dr. Ljudevit Jurak" in official German Katyn materials (Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von KATYN)--Nekto 16:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

"Tzarist Leopoldine Carolingue Academy of Natural Sciences" is probably "Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturwissenschaftler" - German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina --Nekto 18:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)