Career
As an Ustashe he held the rank of Lieutenant. Brzica boasted of winning the contest by killing the largest number of prisoners - 1360 people. Some other sources set Brzica"s "record" at a lower number, between 670 and 1100.
As an Ustashe he held the rank of Lieutenant. Brzica boasted of winning the contest by killing the largest number of prisoners - 1360 people. Some other sources set Brzica"s "record" at a lower number, between 670 and 1100.
Before the war Brzica was a scholarship student at the Franciscan college of Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina and a member of The Great Brotherhood of Crusaders, an organization part of the Croatian Catholic movement. He spent some time studying law in Zagreb where he became the Ustashe Youth member and later a member of the Croatian fascist Ustaša government (1941-1945) and one of the guards in the Jasenovac concentration camp.