THE CASE OF GENERAL ANTE MO？KOV 1945-1947 OR GENERAL ANTE MO？KOV AND THE SO CALLED USTASHI GOLD 1945-1947

Sa？etak Similarly to many other former Independent State of Croatia [NDH] officials, after retreating to Austria, General Ante Mo？kov was not a mere passive observer of future developments but rather directed his activity, under the newly created circumstances, against the recently established Yugoslav Communist regime. Also, Mo？kov was the first among the former high NDH officials, who, after the war, publicly took an oppositional stand towards his quite recent leader, Poglavnik Ante Paveli？. In doing so, he was not motivated by any principled political reasons, but rather by the discord around the evaluation of Paveli？’s role, primarily from the viewpoint of the crash he had experienced. Closely connected to Mo？kov is also the issue of the so called Ustashi gold, taken out of Croatia during the retreat, which really marked the most his post-1945 activities. This period of his second emigration is the subject of the present paper. Based on the available bibliography, as well as the available both domestic and foreign archival sources – some of which have so far been unknown and as such have never been used – the present paper tries to additionally enlighten some unknown and controversial episodes from Mo？kov’s postwar activities