The original Ivo Rojnica, the grandfather, was born in 1913 in Croatia and was one of the commanders of the Ustasha army, military organization that emerged in 1930, which years later helped the arrival of the Germans to Yugoslav territory, due to the strong rejection that the ultra-right Croats themselves felt for their Serbian and Slovenian countrymen. It is said that this armed group helped the Third Reich with the annihilation of more than 700 thousand men. But it was so brutal in its conception that even the Germans themselves invited them to leave because they considered them dangerous. And among the thousands of expelled people, one, Ivo himself, He arrived in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1947 thanks to the facilities offered by the government in power to those fleeing their Nazi past.. Once here, and taking advantage of his privileged contacts, Rojnica became a prominent textile businessman reaching the most prestigious entities in the country such as the Rotary Club and the Argentine Chamber of Exporters. Although it could never be verified, it is estimated that he put money into the electoral campaign for Carlos Menem’s first presidency.who would later protect him from being extradited when his dark involvement in World War II was discovered. He died on December 1, 2007 at the age of 92. His family said goodbye to him with heartfelt messages in the newspaper, among them, that of his infamous grandson Ivo, “El Croata.”
Ivo Rojnica, the original | News
