Евреите в националната и религиозната политика на военновременния режим в Хърватия /1941-1945 г./
Jews in the National and Religious Policy of the War-time Ustasha Regime in Croatia /1941-1945/

Summary/Abstract: After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) with the Nazi victory over Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Ustashas did not miss a chance to demonstrate loyalty to their German patrons and took an active participation in the Holocaust on their territory. They preferred "to sacrifice" the insufficient Jewish minority in the country (30-40,000 people), which did not play an essential role in its economic, political and cultural life in the name of the obtaining the confidence of the Nazi ruling circles. While the Germans tolerated Serbs in the ISC, they insisted it to be "cleansed" from the Jews. Thus, under Nazi pressure the last were qualified as "non-Aryans" in Croatia and persecuted as racially inferior and dangerous people. The measures undertaken against them were mainly three groups in the country: for their removal from the political and public life; for their economic plunder, and their physical elimination (genocide). In fact, in all German satellites Jews suffered tremendously. The imprisonment and massacres started in large numbers in the summer of 1941, and continued during the following two years with severe determination. Jews were either murdered on the spot or arrested and sent to concentration camps. Some of the victims had been seized directly by the Nazis who interned them in different concentration camps (in the ISC, Germany, Poland, etc.).

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