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The Ustaše (pronounced [ûstaʃe]), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, [n 3] was a Croatian, fascist and ultranationalist organization [21] active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret).
For two years running, the small Jewish community in Zagreb, Croatia, has boycotted the ceremony in protest of the government’s tolerance for ultranationalist movements reminiscent of the Ustaše, which was the fascist group that controlled Croatia during World War II.
Ustaša, Croatian fascist movement that nominally ruled the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. In 1929, when King Alexander I tried to suppress the conflict between Croatian and Serbian political parties by imposing a personal dictatorial regime in Yugoslavia, Ante Pavelić, a former
The Croatian Revolutionary Organization (Ustaša—hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija—UHRO), as the Ustasha movement was originally known, was created sometime in late 1929 or early 1930 from among radical student clubs and militant youth activists within the nationalist Croatian Party of Right (Hrvatska stranka prava).
The Ustaše Militia (Croatian: Ustaška vojnica) was the military branch of the Ustaše, established by the fascist and genocidal regime of Ante Pavelić in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), an Axis puppet state established from a large part of occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
In the short period from 1941 to 1945, the Croatian Ustasha* regime attempted to remove, through deportation, physical extermination and forced assimilation, the Serbian, Jewish and Roma minorities of the ‘Independent State of Croatia’ (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH).
The Ustaša program, elements of which Pavelić had developed in 1933, combined extreme Frankist Croatian nationalism, Nazism, and fascism, Catholic clericalist authoritarianism, and ideas from the Croatian Peasant Party.
Led by Ante Pavelic, the Croatian regime began a genocidal campaign against minority groups and killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews in Croatia. This possibly staged Ustase footage shows Ustase paramilitary forces rounding up villagers in rural Croatia.
The Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945) was a multi-ethnic entity in which a range of political and military powers cooperated with and fought against one another. No less complicated were the ruling Ustaša movement and its relationship with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
By using the top scholars in the field to explore the nature of the NDH, The Independent State of Croatia 1941-45 contributes to scholarly understandings of Croatian nationalism, Balkan...