Croatian National Resistance

The Hrvatski narodni Otpor ( ENT, Croatian National Resistance or Croatian people's resistance, originally Hrvatski narodni odpor ) was a right-wing terrorist organization of exiled Croats.

The ENT was founded a few years after the end of the Second World War in Spain from the living there former concentration camp commander Vjekoslav Luburić.

According to the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, it was the ENT to a militant nationalist emigre organization, Otpor spread violence in their slogans since the spring of 1975 in Germany based magazine. Leader of the German branch of the ENT was living in Cologne Terrorist Stjepan Bilandžić.

The German branch of the ENT was banned on 1 June 1976 by Federal Interior Minister Werner Maihofer because this would endanger the internal security of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the same time also the Croatian club Drina eV, a sub-organization of the ENT prohibited. The prohibitions were confirmed by a judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of 25 January 1978. After the ban the supporters of the ENT moved the focus of their activities abroad. The Journal Otpor was sent from abroad to the former ENT members in the FRG.

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