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The history textbooks in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia cited 700,000 as the total number of victims at Jasenovac. This was promulgated from a 1946 calculation of the demographic loss of population (the difference between the actual number of people after the war and the number that would have been, had the pre-war growth trend ...
Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-1-85065-895-5. Ramet, Sabrina P. (2006). The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. New York: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34656-8. Roberts, Walter R. (1973). Tito, Mihailović and the Allies 1941–1945 ...
In August 1942, Francetić was appointed the supreme commander of all standing active brigades of the Ustaše Army and the Legion's new commander became Colonel Ivo Stipković. Under Stipković's command the Legion lost even more men when the 23rd and 28th battalions (composed mainly of Bosnian Muslims) were disbanded and their soldiers ...
The historian Šemso Tucaković estimates in his book "Crimes Against Bosnian Muslims 1941–1945" that around 100,000 Muslims were killed by the Chetniks. [ 119 ] Živko Topalović , who was a close associate of Mihailović and president of the 1944 Ba Congress , [ 176 ] [ 177 ] claimed that the Chetniks had killed as many as 40,000 Muslims ...
The Battle of Lijevče Field (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Lijevča polju, Битка на Лијевча пољу) was fought between 30 March and 8 April 1945 between the Croatian Armed Forces (HOS, the amalgamated Ustashe Militia and Croatian Home Guard forces) and Chetnik forces on the Lijevče field near Banja Luka in what was then the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac of Zagreb meeting with the Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić in 1941 Catholic prelates led by Aloysius Stepinac at the funeral of Marko Došen, one of the senior Ustaše leaders, in September 1944 Serb civilians forced to convert to Catholicism by the Ustaše in Glina Execution of prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp, which was briefly run by a Franciscan ...
There were about 950 Chetniks serving under Drenović that year, positioned around Manjača and Glamoč. [37] Drenović had about 400 Chetniks under his command by the following year. [38] Drenović was a Chetnik vojvoda (warlord), [39] and his Chetnik band was the only one that the Ustaše trusted fully during the war. [38]
The Blagaj massacre was the mass killing of around 400 Serb civilians by the Croatian nationalist Ustaše movement on 9 May 1941, during World War II.The massacre occurred shortly after the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the Ustaše-led Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).