2015/05/29 by Shyamal Kataria · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration #Balkan and Eastern European Studies #Serbian #Genocide #Nazism #Refugee #Ancient history #Dismemberment #State (computer science) #German #Population #Political science #Persecution #Nazi Germany #Independent state #History #Economic history #Law #Politics #Demography #Sociology #Archaeology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1215/10474552-2914550
openalex publication_date 2015/05/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The Nazi German entry into the Balkans in the spring of 1941, together with the complete dismemberment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, heralded the birth of the Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska (NDH) or “Independent” State of Croatia. Run by the Ustashe, the NDH was an ideologically fascist state that, during its brief existence between April 1941 and May 1945, subjected its minority Serbian population to genocide. In addition to many hundreds of thousands being killed or forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism (the religion of the Croats), many Serbs fled the territory of the NDH for neighboring Serbia. The bitter memory held by these Serb survivors of the Ustashe regime, in particular the refugees, constituted a subversive force throughout the period of the second Yugoslavia, culminating in the Yugoslav Wars between 1991 and 1995.