Ustaša and Jasenovac
NDH genocide of Serbs, Jews, and Roma
The Independent State of Croatia, an Axis client run by the Ustaša, built a camp and massacre system aimed at Serbs, Jews, and Roma. Jasenovac became the emblem of a clerical-fascist killing project sponsored by German and Italian wartime architecture.
Damage
Ustaša camps and terror murdered Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia.
Lives lost
Tens to over a hundred thousand killed at Jasenovac and related terror (estimates contested)
Record Points
- Ustaša policy combined forced conversion, expulsion, and mass murder against Orthodox Serbs as a state program.
- Jasenovac and related camps operated with extreme brutality even by Axis camp standards.
- Jewish and Roma communities were targeted for elimination alongside the Serb demographic war.
- German recognition and Italian occupation zones structured the NDH without absolving Croatian agency.
- Post-independence memory battles still fight over numbers, naming, and whether Jasenovac was "exaggerated."
Perpetrator(s)
Victims
SerbsJewsRoma