Transcript of record on the interrogation of Nikola Popović
Conducted on January 20, 1942
in the Special Police Department U.g.B
A R E C O R D
About the conducted interview of POPOVIC NIKOLA, a former military officer, with a flat in Sazonova No. 53.
I.
My name is Popovic Nikola, a former military officer, now unemployed, born in 3-V-1912, in Golubinci, Stara Pazova, now in Croatia, from father Živane and mother Jelena, born, Pandurević, Serb, by religion Orthodox, with an apartment in the street Sazonova No. 53.
II.
I do not know that there is any guilt and the reason for my arrest. The very fact that I was considered a the Jew I think is not a sufficient reason to consider it dangerous that the public order,
I am not accustomed to being in the spirit of criticizing the existing order, because I am a graduate student of a non-commissioned school, where the nuns are educated to live to die for the King and the Fatherland.
And I do not want to be different. I was just like that and I'll stay that way.
Communism itself, as an idea of me, has never attracted me, so, I can not even hope for anything like that from now on.
Before the war, I was in the military service, serving at the Military Geographical Institute. I would not be able to survive in such ranks, that I had the habit to talk about what I do not need or that I behaved honorably.
If the authorities have information that I am what I said, it can only be a scam, so please take it from me.
I have said so much so that my testimony is read to me and as such, I acknowledge and sign it as such.
Signed,
Nikola Popović
R E G I S T R I N G
Stenographer,
Sig. IAB UGB SP III - 8/2 k. 144/4
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