Anti-Serb sentiment or Serbophobia refers to negative attitudes, prejudice or discrimination towards Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically, it has been a basis for the persecution, ethnic cleansing,
The Skull Tower in Niš. Following the Battle of Čegar (1809), it was built from the heads of massacred Serbs by the order of the Ottoman general Hurshid Pasha.
WWI A Starved Serbian Prisoner of War, taken by an Italian factor in Austria
Austrians executing Serbian civilians (1917)
WWI Young Serbian civilians assassinated in the sight of their mothers by Austro-Hungarian soldiers
The Ustaše was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945. It was formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement. From its
Anti-Serb sentiment
…proponents of anti-Serb sentiment was the 19th- and 20th-century Croatian Party of Rights. The most extreme elements of this party later became the Ustaše in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a Croatian fascist organization that came to power during World War II and instituted racial laws that specifically…
Poglavnik Ante Pavelić and Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini on 18 May 1941 in Rome. The Ustaše were heavily influenced by Italian Fascism and politically supported by Fascist Italy.
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler with Pavelić at the Berghof outside Berchtesgaden, Germany. The Ustaše increasingly came under the influence of Nazism after the founding of the NDH in 1941.
Anti-Chetnik (anti-Serb) and anti-communist Ustaše poster
A unit of Ustaše in Sarajevo, 1942