Janka-Puszta

thumb|300px|right|Mijo Kralj, [[Vlado Chernozemski and Zvonimir Pospišil performing training exercises at Janka-Puszta]] thumb|200px|right|The assassin of Alexander I of Yugoslavia Chernozemski as instructor in Janka-Puszta, 1934. Janka-Puszta or Jankovac was a training camp set up for the Ustaše organisation in 1931. The camp was located in the Zala County of Hungary, close to the border of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia near the villages of Murakeresztúr and Belezna. The camp was one of a string of training camps established in the Kingdom of Hungary and Fascist Italy by the Ustaše. It housed several hundred émigré recruits, mostly manual laborers returning from Western Europe and North America. The recruits swore an oath of loyalty to the leader of the Ustaše, Ante Pavelić, took part in militant exercises, and produced anti-Serb propaganda material.

== Background == In the summer of 1931, the location was leased by the Hungarian authorities to who served as the camp commander. Ustaše members were already active in the region on both sides of the border at the time. Situated on a hill on approximately 150 acres, the camp consisted of two buildings, open fields and a forest. In November 1931, the first members of the Ustaše organisation arrived. The camp started out as a sort of commune, a refuge for fugitive members of the Ustaše group who had recently escaped from Yugoslavia. After months of preparation, Gustav Perčec began to actively seek members to join the camp. In co-operation with the Hungarian authorities, Ustaše fugitives crossing the Yugoslav-Hungarian border were interviewed by Hungarian police and their details were passed onto Percec. After it was confirmed a fugitive was not a Yugoslav spy, the Hungarian police would take them to the camp and would be provided a false name and acceptance into the camp. Andrija Betlehem lived near Hungarian border and established a channel for transport of Ustaše from Croatia to their training camp in Janka-Puszta.