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The Ustaše (pronounced), 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).
Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara" (transl. Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška) is a Croatian song promoting the Ustaše massacres in World War II. [1] [2] The lyrics celebrate the World War II holocaust and genocide of Serbs in Herzegovina. [3]
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent ...
The concentration camp, one of the ten largest in Europe, was established and operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Nazi collaborationist regime that operated its own extermination camps, for Serbs, Romani, Jews, and political dissidents. [7] It quickly grew into the third largest concentration camp in Europe. [8]
Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia on a map of all camps in Yugoslavia in World War II.. The Holocaust saw the genocide of Jews, Serbs and Romani within the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), a fascist puppet state that existed during World War II, led by the Ustaše regime, which ruled an occupied area of Yugoslavia including most of ...
Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein estimates that 135,000 Croats were also killed in the NDH, 70,000 as actual or suspected collaborators (killed by the Partisans) with 19,000 perishing in prisons or camps, as opponents of the Ustashe regime, and 46,000 killed as Partisans. [143]
At the time, Croatia was often accused of ignoring the crimes committed by the World War II-era fascist Ustaša regime, and of tolerating the symbols and the activities of individuals sympathetic to that regime. This has led to criticism of Croatia, particularly among Serbs. This was exacerbated with war-time propaganda for the Yugoslav wars. [14]
Lepoglava, northern Croatia 1941–1945 2,000+ political at least 961 youngsters and 80 other inmates Danica: Koprivnica, northern Croatia 15 April 1941–July 1941 [5] 5,600 Lobor: Lobor, northern Croatia 9 August 1941–November 1942 2,000+ women and children, mostly Jews and Serbs 200+ Kerestinec: Kerestinec, Zagreb 1941–1945 Jastrebarsko