Accounts. Brothers Jože and Dr. anton Krošl

Abstract

This is an attempt at a reconstruction of the life, work, and political orientation of Dr. Anton Krošl, a possibly “deliberately” forgotten intellectual living in the interwar period, as well as of his brother Jože Krošl, who was a priest. A member of Krek’s Youth organization and the editor of Ogenj, a bulletin of Christian Socialist youth movement, Anton Krošl had a Ph.D. in history and was a published author. Due to the scarcity of reliable sources it is very difficult to examine his activities during the Second World War when he was the head of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and a cofounder of the Pobratim organization and of the National Legion. One of the cosignatories of the Slovene People’s Bloc, his elder brother Jože Krošl is generally more known as the Slovene pioneer of pastoral sociology and a lecturer on the same subject at the Faculty of Theology in Maribor.