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
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
Jasenovac was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. The
Ustaše
…All but three were later killed by the Ustaše. The Ustaše sent most Jews to Ustaše and Nazi concentration camps—including the notorious, Ustaše-run Jasenovac concentration camp—where nearly 32,000, or 80% of the Jews in the Independent State of Croatia, were killed. In October 1941, the Ustaše mayor of Zagreb ordered the…
Arriving prisoners being robbed by Ustaše guards
Ustaše militia executing people over a mass grave near Jasenovac concentration camp
A report on the deportation of Travnik area Jews to Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška camps, March 1942
The bodies of prisoners executed by the Ustaše in Jasenovac