Vladimir Dedijer
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Vladimir Dedijer (4 February 1914 - 30 November 1990) was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician and historian.
During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper Borba, and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff.
After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace conference and on several sessions of United Nations General Assembly (1945-1952).[1] In 1952 he became a member of the Party's Central Committee and was excluded from it following the fall of Milovan Đilas. From then on, he devoted himself to writing history and teaching (he taught on Belgrade University and on universities in United Kingdom and United States)[1].
One of his most famous books is The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II which was translated in several languages. Another book, The Road to Sarajevo, discusses the origins of World War I.
He wrote two important accounts of Partisan history: Diary and Tito, both of which have been published in English.
He was Chairman and President of Sessions at the 1966 Russell Tribunal.
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- ^ a b General Encyclopedia of Yugoslavian Lexicographic Institute, volume 2 (Zagreb, 1977), article Dedijer, Vladimir.