Other places of the NDH repressive system

In addition to the unique fate that Jews had as victims of the Holocaust, persecution and genocide in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the perpetrators of which were the Nazis and their helpers and allies, Jews also suffered as communists or other enemies of the regime, and the places of suffering were often shared with other persecuted categories in the Ustasha regime: Serbs, Roma, as well as those Croats and members of other nationalities who were perceived as enemies by the NDH authorities.

The headquarters of the German People's Group was also located on 4 Kulin Ban Square. When the Germans established their police service in the NDH in 1943, the head of that police, SS-General Konstantin Kammerhofer, also had its headquarters at 4 Kulin Ban Square. In this building there were interrogation rooms, and in the basement, there was a prison.

At number 10 was the Ustasha and Gestapo prison. The German army entered Zagreb on April 10, when the NDH was declared. With them, representatives of the institutions of the German Reich arrived, including the Gestapo. The very next day, they broke into the building of the Jewish Municipality, the Lavoslav Schwartz Jewish Nursing Home and other institutions in the city. They also stayed briefly in the building of the Jewish Municipality at 16 Palmotićeva Street. Then the Gestapo offices were located in this building, on the floors, and the prison was mostly in the basement. Although the Gestapo offices were later moved to 1 Petar Krešimir IV Square, this prison remained active until the end of the war.

Nearby was the prison of the Ustaše police (9 Račkoga Street), as well as the office of Vjekoslav Maks Luburić, the person who managed all the camps in the NDH. There were also other institutions nearby that we can connect with the repressive apparatus of that time.