The Ideology Of Nation And Race The Croatian Ustasha Regime And Its Policies Toward Minorities In The Independent State Of Croatia 19411945 Nevenko Bartulin by Nevenko Bartulin instant download after payment.

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 Nazi-backed regime also attempted the first serious effort by any regime in the region to
nationally integrate the large Muslim population of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This endeavour of
‘demographic engineering’ in the Balkans in the 1940s was, as Stanley Payne rightly asserts,
of ‘truly Hitlerian proportions,’ considering the fact that non-Croatian ethnic, racial and
religious minorities constituted approximately one-half of the NDH’s population.1 Jonathan
Gumz correctly attributes Ustasha policies to an agenda of a ‘nationalizing war’, that is, ‘the
extensive use of military and political violence to reduce a multi-national state to a nationstate.