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Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress. Someone who has been forced to convert to a different religion or irreligion may continue, covertly, to adhere to the beliefs and practices which were originally held, while outwardly behaving as a convert. Crypto-Jews, Crypto-Christians, Crypto-Muslims and Crypto-Pagans are historical examples of the latter.
Martyrdom of Saint Daniel Fasanella and companion martyrs, Terni, 18th century
Registration of boys for the devşirme. Ottoman miniature painting from the Süleymanname, 1558.
"St. Theodora Church in downtown Chişinău was converted into the city's Museum of Scientific Atheism". —Andrei Brezianu
1929 cover of the USSR League of Militant Atheists magazine, showing the gods of the Abrahamic religions being crushed by the first five-year plan
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was the systematic persecution of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945. It was carried out through executions in death camps, as well as through mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportations, forced conversions, and war rape. This genocide was simultaneously carried out with the Holocaust in the NDH as well as the genocide of Roma, by combining Nazi racial policies with the ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure Greater Croatia.
Image: Serbs expelled from Croatia, July 1941
Image: Jasenovac HDR D
Image: Adolf Hitler meets Ante Pavelić.1941
Image: Ustasa guard, Jasenovac