Serbia:
Croatia:
Jasenovac concentration camp-
- The Croatian minister of culture and education, Mile Budak, was a rabid Catholic-Nazi who propagated the axiom of killing one-third, converting one-third and expelling one-third of all Serbs.
- In July 1941, Budak openly declared that the state must exterminate all “foreign elements” meaning jews, gypsies, and one of their largest enemies orthodox serbs.
- Budak did nothing to hide his plans of extermination
- “The basis for the Ustasha movement is religion,” announced Budak. “For minorities such as Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, we have 3 million bullets.”
- As the Serbs were being forced to convert to Catholicism, more than 450 Orthodox churches were destroyed.
Croatia:
- The state of Croatia was a bi-ethnic murder regime, that was sworn to exterminate millions of Yugoslavians that were neither Muslim or Catholic through the Ustasha.
- Although Muslims were a minority in the NDH, the Bosniak Muslim faction and the Croatian Catholics jointly ruled and jointly murdered.
- Under Croatian decrees, the Jews were ordered to wear a yellow Star-of-David and black patches with a Z on their backs meaning “Zidov”, the Croatian word for Jew.
- When the Jews were taken from their homes and villages, the Croatian Muslims would take their place.
- There were more than 20 concentration camps that were established for killings, but the largest camp, Jasenovac concentration camp was located in Croatia.
Jasenovac concentration camp-
- Considered by many to be more sadistic than Auschwitz
- In August of 1945 Jasenovac Concentration camp was established by the Utase regime in the Independent state of Croatia. It was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia during World War II, and was dismantled in April 1945.
- Was 93 square miles in size and made up of five subcamps and three smaller camps on the banks of the Sava River.
- most of the camp was located on the Sava River
- a children's camps was located northwest in Sisak
- a women’s camp was located southeast in Stara Gradiska