Sabotage at the General Post Office in Zagreb

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Sabotage at the General Post Office in Zagreb
Part of World War II
The building of the former Post Directorate, Jurišićeva Street, Zagreb
Date 14 September 1941 Location Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia 45°48′45″N 15°58′52″E / 45.81250°N 15.98111°E / 45.81250; 15.98111 Result Heavy damage to the telephone facilities at the General Post Office in Zagreb, disruption of telephone communications

Sabotage at the General Post Office in Zagreb took place during the Second World War on Sunday, 14 September 1941. Zagreb was the capital city of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet state of Nazi Germany.^[1]

At exactly 12.30 p.m. two muffled explosions were heard, all glass in the main post office building was broken, and through the window flew out a large quantity of office paper and all kinds of documents.

On the second day came out in the Ustaša daily news paper Hrvatski narod, an official notice about the event at the General Post Office: "On 14 September this year at a time between 12:30-13 hours, four bombs exploded in the main post building in the department of telegrams and telephone. Eight people are injured, on this occasion, including two German soldiers and one officer and several policemen. Police clerk Škunca died of their wounds..."^[1]