Vjekoslav Luburić was a Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II. Luburić also personally oversaw and spearheaded the contemporaneous genocides of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the NDH.
Luburić in the 1940s
A Serb family killed in their home by the Ustaše, 1941
The decaying corpses of a pair of Jasenovac victims.
Luburić sitting with a German officer at Stara Gradiška, June 1942
Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
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
