Bosnia during World War II

During the Second World War, Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. However, the country faced a complex and turbulent situation during this period, characterized by various political and military developments. In April 1941 the Axis powers launched an invasion of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was quickly defeated, and Bosnia and Herzegovina came under occupation. Croatia, led by the fascist Ustaše regime, was established as a puppet state under Italian and German influence. The Ustaše regime, led by Ante Pavelić, implemented a policy of extreme nationalism, anti-Semitism, and persecution of minority groups, especially Serbs, Jews, and Roma. Despite the occupation, several resistance movements emerged to fight against the Axis powers and their collaborators. The most prominent resistance groups were the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito, and the Chetniks, led by Draža Mihailović. These groups had different ideologies and strategies, leading to conflicts between them. In April 1945, the Partisans, with Soviet support, launched a final offensive against the Axis forces in Yugoslavia. They took over Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with the rest of the country, and effectively ended the occupation.
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- A Concise History of Bosnia (Cathie Carmichael).
- The Balkans 1804-2012. Nationalism, War and the Great Powers (Misha Glenny).
- Sarajevo, 1941-1945. Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe (Emily Greble).
- Bosnia. A Short History (Noel Malcolm).
- Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941-45 [Men-at-Arms] (N. Thomas and K. Mikulan).
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[@HistoryHustle]

Learn about countries during WW2: kzbin.info/aero/PL_bcNuRxKtpHTLN9AwkENvRE4am3VNcK4

[@marcoskehl]

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[@653j521]

Idea is pronounced with three syllables, i-de-a, not i-dea, because of word origin. Please look it up.

[@HistoryHustle]

@@653j521 ok.

[@ConradHeinz-fj5rc]

Dont forget serb c

[@ConradHeinz-fj5rc]

Serb children forced to convert .

[@CARL_093]

thanks for featuring bosnia during ww2

[@HistoryHustle]

🥉👍

[@libertas5005]

Where did Carl say he was proud of it?@@GNikolov1944

[@davidsike734]

Being married to a Serb for the last 30 years, and having spent time in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro, this topic and discussion interests me deeply. Thank you for your documentary.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@Ana-bw7gm]

If you are married to a Serb why don't you read history to find out the facts rather than listen to some Dutch talking about Yugoslav history. Imagine, Dutch to telling people about your wife's history. If you asked former German Nazis you would learn more facts that this one.

[@modricaninmodricki7559]

30 years with Serb and still alive??

[@davidsike734]

Alive and happy, don't stereotype or believe everything you hear. She's loyal, pretty, unselfish, cooks, cleans, cuts the grass when I can't get to it. We met on the dance floor in a CW club 2-stepping. So we also spend time dancing together. We have 2 grown healthy boys/men.@@modricaninmodricki7559

[@davidsike734]

First of all, since I know less about you than the author of this article, that makes your opinion and advice less credible than his. Second, I fully capable of deciding which resource is better than this article if I choose to research this further. Third, my mother-in-law first hand experienced the occupation and gave me her personal recounting of how the Germans treated her. There is a memorial in the town of Kragujevac in which the nazi's brutally murdered 3000 school children in the school for unruly behavior. So a nazi is the last person (even if I knew one) I would interview/read about to hear their side of the story. @@Ana-bw7gm

[@tyronewifestealer2385]

Thank you for this video, great work! My great grandfather was a chetnik in the region of surrounding the Ozren mountain. What you say about chetnik decentralization is true. He led a small band of local men to protect the villages from bosniak and croatian extremists. His name was Jovan.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

You told this unique and complex story so well professor!! Many things I was confused about surrounding these Conflicts during world war 2 were cleared up!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply Nick!

[@albertmisic3876]

Bosnia during WW2 was hell on earth. NDH, Germans, Italy, Partizans, Chetnics... Ustashe caused non stop constant battles and massacres, masiv national, civil and ideological wars. End the end Partizans, most consist by Serbs, made it base from it. My grandfather wanted to go there from East Serbia to join them. But it was extremely difficult and dangerous because of difficult terrain and many armed groups.

[@drazenborsi523]

Actualy chetnicks were genocidal back then same as in the 90es. Ustase were merely responding to violence with violence.

[@edinresic3125]

That's why he joined Četniks, much closer and easier...

[@drzactebe269]

​@@edinresic3125 a dje ste ustasko i hrvatsko cvijece, izdaje krvi svoje i pradjedova svojih..slovenske poturice!!

[@miladinblagojevic2263]

@@edinresic3125 četnici su narodno oslobodilačka vojska i legitimna vojska .Tito ih je oklevetao kod engleza i amera.Inače svih 8 ofanziva je bilo na srpskim teritorijama ustaše skoro nije ni napadao kao ni hanđźarlije zato su srbi najviśe stradali.

[@Mikimaus_Povijest]

What massacres?

[@rodeastell3615]

Excellent video ... thank you for posting.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@afewminutesofhistory]

Awesome as always. A good insight into a overlooked area

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response.

[@afewminutesofhistory]

@@HistoryHustle thank you!

[@johnvanstone5336]

Another great video Stefan, very interesting and informative of this little known area of the Second World War

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@xvsj5833]

Thank you Stefan for sharing your European knowledge with all of us ❤ your welcome ☺️

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome Jesse. I thought it was about time to give you a shout out!

[@Slichoo]

I have been waiting for this video since you made the croatian video. Thank you so much

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@wellston2826]

You are a travelin' hustler, fer sure. Gee I wish I could do that! Love your work, good detail you won't here anywhere else sometimes. Good Luck Hustler.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@jeanlebreton2049]

Thank you for this video. One more info about Ustashi: from a French, (ex) Catholic point of view, I know that the French clergy, French diplomacy, and even the Vatican in some point, were kind of fascinated by Ustashis as they constituted the first catholic State in the region for a long time. Especially the influence of Franciscans of Zaghreb into the regime if I remember well.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting to read, thanks for sharing.

[@danielm6319]

Fascinated, how?

[@jeanlebreton2049]

@@danielm6319 to the degree of being blinded about the persecutions and violence.

[@josipivanic6755]

The Ustaše movement was founded in 1929 as a response to Serbian fascism and hegemony and as a response to the fascist dictatorship of the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty. Not everything is black and white as you want to falsely portray. The Ustaški movement is a reaction to Serbian fascism and hegemony during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. When the Ustasha movement was founded, it was a nationalist and terrorist movement like the Irish Ira, the Basque Eta, or the Palestinian Plo. Since they had their cells in Italy, they connected with the Italian fascists because the Italians also had an interest in the destruction of the Yugoslav kingdom.

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

@@josipivanic6755 What was that Serbian fascism? In that you used Serbian gold to build Zagreb?

[@michaelpower6126]

Excellent channel Stefan. Best wishes from Ireland

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

One of your best. Thanks BZ. Nice tuxedo.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@davidraper5798]

Thankyou. A good introduction into another obscure part of World War II, often overlooked in the greater tragedy.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

Thanks for the video

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@BilalAhmed-su5jr]

Thanks Brother for give me knowledge about History.

[@yeapxuen5291]

I was hoping for a video of the Ww2 perspective of Albania, but we got a Bosnia video which I didn't know I had so many questions about 😂. Thank you for making a video on this underrated topic! ❤ ( And showing the kitten)

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. As of now I won't travel to Albania anytime soon. Sorry!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a super informative video and thrilled historical coverage of Yugoslavia during WW2 within focusing on Bosnians...thank you Sir (Stefan)...you are an excellent history teacher... and your history Hustle channel is respectful 🙏 and interesting one ..thank you...

[@Ana-bw7gm]

And you believe this Dutch? Ask Indonesians about the Dutch.

[@duskokukolj5571]

😂😂😂Bosanci?Srbi su Srbi,Hrvati su Hrvati!A Bosanci?Možda misliš na Bošnjake?

[@miroslavakostic]

@@duskokukolj5571 Koji su sad ti Bošnjaci ? Je li oni što su se tako proglasili u Hotelu Holidej In u Sarajevu 1993. ? 😂

[@duskokukolj5571]

@@miroslavakostic haaaahaaaa da.Stara evropska nacija stvorena 1992-god.Haaahaaa.

[@larrylarue7778]

So awesome Stephen I am listening Carefully 😊 I am finding more details of my grandfather of Utasha I am digging more so into questions I have found I am so excited Stephen with all of this Keep the details Larry for oregon

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response.

[@axopus5743]

Great video, Stefan! It's also awesome how you're on location while filming! Keep up the great videos!!! 💪💪

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@ortodox4today]

Solid, I'll say as good as can be said in 10 minute format. Although, there are some mistakes/misconception, mainly about the number of dead in Jasenovac and the nature of resistance movements.

[@HistoryHustle]

Feel free to share my insights. I am pretty sure about the numbers of Jasenovac. In the future I'll release a video on that.

[@max670201]

Number of the victims in Jasenovac is 80 000 by Croatian sources, by Serbian sources that number is significantly bigger, up to 800 000.

[@RobFiles]

@@HistoryHustle Do you study any history prior to 1914? Or do you just go for low hanging fruit? What about BiH during Hapsburg's or Ottoman's? Let's discuss BiH when it was predominantly Catholic using Western Stokavian dialect prior to Muslim invasion, then Serbian expansion? Or is it just easier to hammer the Nazi message over and over and over again? Surely you're brighter than that, or do you just have an angle and an outdated agenda...

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

@@HistoryHustle You are sure because the Croats stumbled upon your number. In the 60s of the 20th century, a state commission was established that unequivocally established the number at 800,000.Without the report of that commission, that video will be meaningless. Or you will deliberately participate in the washing of Croatian history.

[@Aboleo80]

​@@max670201Serbian sources have pretty much every confirmed dead person during the WW2 listed as someone who is executed in Jasenovac. On that list is My father's uncle and some of their other relatives. He and my Grandfather are Bosniaks who both were part of the 13th SS Handžar. My father's uncle was killed and Grandfather imprisoned and sent to reeducation camp. Serbs definitely suffered heavily under Ustaše but the numbers they present are heavily inflated and if you ever check out the names of the listed as killed in Jasenovac you will notice so many Croat, Bosniak, Macedonian even Albanian names along with Serbian ones.

[@therealcaesar1]

Sarajevo so beautiful, and interesting history video!

[@HistoryHustle]

🥈👍

[@dragankovaljesko1385]

Da li je autor ovog videa ikada imao istoriju u školi kao učenik? Toliko neznanja i površnih podataka na jednom mestu, zaista neverovatno.

[@HistoryHustle]

See sources below the video.

[@dragankovaljesko1385]

@@HistoryHustle Većina istorijskih falsifikata. Gebels bi bio ponosan na tebe.

[@user-op2ck4ww1j]

Ovaj autor je dobro placenta od strane srpskog Vucicevog rezima. Holandija je imala tkodje svoje naciste tkz. NSB partiju koji su saradjivali sa nacistickom Njemackom.

[@olivergameplay1582]

Great report.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@Marina-rt6ok]

Good video. But i sugest to make video of WWI and Yugoslavia from 1918 tp 1941

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps something for the future.

[@marcoskehl]

The Yugoslavia and Balkans history was so complex in 1941, as it was in the 1995 too. Great topic, Stefan. ヽ(͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)ﾉ 🍀 🇧🇷 Obrigado!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@Cp6uH_]

It was not that complicated. Catholics and muslim joined forces to exterminate Serb natives and then majority. Unique occasion to see how the Papists treated other Christian denominations ( and still doing). If you don't bow to the Pope, you're not considered as a human being, yet as Christian.

[@krstomudrihronicar8112]

@@Cp6uH_ just one sentence>Moljevic plan for extermination muslim from east Bosnia, Sanjak etc.

[@hajnaletistaee8445]

​@@Cp6uH_the Serbs came to Bosnia in 1400 fleeing the Turks, and through agrarian reform they got the land of the Bosnians and thus occupied the land of the Bosnian Muslims. the Chetniks committed various crimes in the letter that Petar sends to Drazi, he says that he killed 7 thousand Muslims from Foca to Trebinje, of which only 1200 soldiers remained civilians, that is why the Hannzdar division was founded to protect the Bosniaks, but later Hitler recruited them into the Nazis

[@miroslavakostic]

Marcos, it Is partly right. But topic Is this video Are Bosnia and Herzegovina in WW2. There Is not so complex. Serbian people Are against Axis Powers and in Belgrade Serbian officers of Yugoslav Army overthrow the Regent and Government who sign 2 days ago to join Axis Powers. Because of that, without declaring the war Hitler, Mussolini and Hungary attacked Yugoslavia and won. In Bosnia...Serbs go to Yugoslav Army to defend their country from agression but Muslims and Croats were deserted and even disarm Yugoslav units ( role of Tito's Communist Party is complex in that short "April war" ). But role of Colonel Draza Mihalovic Is not. His unit crush some Ustashi rebellion in some Bosnian city and refused and order that he and his unit surrender to the Nazis. He go to Serbia and made First Resistance movement in occupied Yugoslavia ( "Chetniks" ) in May 1941. Hitler made Indipendent State of Croatia with leader Ante Pavelic ( Ustashi ). The Catholic Church and Islam religion community who were support that new Government. In Spring 1941 Croatian And Muslim Ustashi in Bosnia and Herzegovina started genocide over Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. They killed them in their houses and some of them Ustashi put in Death camps such Jasenovac. Serbs took arms in their hands and defend their families. But after June 22, 1941 Tito Got order From USSR to start uprising in Yugoslavia. In the beginning, Chetniks and Tito's partizans Are fight together. But war goal of Communist are not interest of Ustashi genocide. They Are Got order to fight against Germans, Italians and Ustashi. Because of that they divide in Bosnia too. And started two Resistance guerillas were started civil war between thereselves. Till the capitulation of Italy in 1943. In Tito's partizans were 80% Serbs. After that Muslim and Croats started to join Partizans. Till the May 1945. In Chetniks were 90% Serbs. Allies in 1943. Are decided to support Tito and reject General D. Mihailović. Marcos, Serbs were Allies with Brazilian Army. Either in Partizans or Chetniks. Continue with BRICS.🎉

[@573998]

I'm an expatriate living in the Balkans . The people's politics and history is complicated the people Bosians , Serb or Albanians are friendly people . There atrocities to each other baffles me.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hopefully it remains peaceful now.

[@libertas5005]

They are peaceful but the problem is Serbs don't want to stop pushing their nationalistic aspirations towards others. Even to this day, Serbs want to chip away 50% of Bosnian land for themselves.

[@ioard]

why do you call yourself an ex pat and not an immigrant? Are you from a western country?

[@fredflinstone6601]

Serbs won’t stop their crap. Troubled people

[@charlieclark5838]

Very interesting Stefan, such a sad sad story that is again a subject that hasn't received the coverage it should have.

[@jacobhyde9367]

I really appreciate your work!

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@justanapple8510]

Good video again stefan!

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@aidankitson7877]

Another excellent piece of work Stefan. Ante Pavelic viewed the Muslim s as Croats who had been forcibly converted to Islam

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@libertas5005]

Ante Pavelic also viewed the Serbs as subhuman. He was a vile creature full of made up stories like that. Bosniaks are just that - Bosniaks. Croat nationalists claim that Bosniaks don't exist, that they're just confused Croats. Serbs claim that Bosniaks are just confused Serbs. Bosniaks declare themselves as Bosniaks, unrelated to either of those 2 groups. Who do you believe? The conquerors or the defenders? And the term is not exclusive to people of Islamic faith in Bosnia, it was used for all citizens of Bosnia for 1000 years until the Yugoslav identity tried to erase the term and overwrite it with "Serbo-Croatian" propaganda and cultural appropriation.

[@SrdjaZlopogledja]

​@@libertas5005There are only four South Slavic nations: Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and Bulgarians. Bosnian or Bosniak (bosanci, bosnjani, bosnjaci) is a demonym, a geographical designation in the official grammar, not a national one. 'Bosniaks' are an artificial nation created in the fall of '93 in the Sarajevo Holiday Inn hotel. They were created on the historical and national heritage of Serbs and Croats. They speak mostly Serbian, with admixtures of Croatian, Turkish and Arabic. They don't have their own flag, coat of arms or anthem, nor national heroes, their own literature, no symbols of a unique nation, the only characteristic for them is Islam.

[@libertas5005]

That narrative is precisely what Serb nationalist pigs like Ratko Mladic or Croat nationalist pigs like Franjo Tudjman were pushing in their propaganda of the 90s. You're parroting war criminal ideology on KZbin. Just so you know, that shitty Z propaganda may work in Putin's Russia or Vucic's Serbia, but it won't work in NATO dominated Europe. Which is why Bosnia is joining NATO soon. You keep lying to yourself and keep trying to spread your silly fairy tales tho! @@SrdjaZlopogledja

[@user-hn9tq5yf2n]

@@SrdjaZlopogledja Your explanation is 100% correct I would like to add that the Bosnians as many call the Muslims in Bosnia (the correct term is boshnjaks) they are a hybrid nation a byproduct of the 500 years of ottoman rule in Bosnia they are mainly descenders to Serbs and to some extent Croats that converted to Islam during the 500 years of ottoman occupation very few of them are descenders to Turks that stayed and assimilated after the ottomans left Bosnia before the ottoman occupation was never a nation state and during that time nation states didn’t exist in Europe and Bosnia was populated by Serbs and Croats at that time there was no ethnic group that called them self’s Bosnians. This not some nonsense or propaganda this is historical and ethno-genetic factuality.

[@boske_77]

Chetniks didn't collaborate with Nazis. They just didn't fight them because of 1 German 100 Serbs policy.

[@markovlacic7977]

Thank you Sir God bless you for this work telling the people true

[@xvsj5833]

Thanks!

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@danielm6319]

Je li možete, molim Vas, napraviti video o Kraljevini SHS i tadašnjih stavova između naroda?

[@paulohenriquenettodealcant6578]

Primorous information!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@Artur_M.]

Who's the little co-host at the end of the video?

[@HistoryHustle]

Very friendly kitten who approached me while filming 😺

[@mammuchan8923]

Your best video ever, ending with a kitten🩷

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@dario957]

Thank you for this video! You present yourself as a historian, it is very interesting to me where you took the numbers of total Jasenovac victims? It is a very complex and deeply political question. I belive the victims do not deserve to be played by politics.

[@robertwilkinson8421]

Great History Lesson.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@danielsjoberg1543]

Can you do an episode about the slovene chetniks?

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@sirdarklust]

Nice video. I'm curious if you think Yugoslavia would have ended up in a civil war even if WWII didn't happen. There was obviously ethnic hatred in the country already., so even without WWII, I think it would have eventually exploded into a war. Take care.

[@damirbajramovic5416]

Pozz iz Sarajeva !! Nije to građanski Rat bio već Vjerski !! Katolici Muslimani Pravoslavci !! Nažalost moglo se to sve izbjeći mirnim putem tj Papir i Olovka !! EU i ostatak Svijeta je oči zatvorio i desio se Prokleti Rat kome nije ništa dobro donjeo !! Još jednom pozdrav iz Bosne 🇧🇦 Sarajeva !!

[@nemanjasim100]

Here is simplified explanation. Hatred between Muslims and Serbs began after Turks were driven away from Serbia and Bosnia. Muslims in Bosnia are converted Serbs and Croats and back in the day they were regarded as traitors of their own people. Hatred between Croats and Serbs started after first world war as Croats fought on side of Austria. It is little know fact that first world war was in best interest of Austria as political party in Croatia ( that was Austrian province ) was union of Serbs and Croats.

[@milankruskovic74]

This story is tip of the iceberg, but it is on right path. My ancestors across Yugoslavia suffered a lot in occupation.

[@brankodrljaca1313]

You are doing great work with your channel. Bosnian Muslims in WW2 with various sides, autonomous pro-Axis movement (generally more loyal to Germans than to Ustasha, with exception like Pjanić)miltias and warlords that shifted sides do deserve their own episode IMO. As well as Bihać Republic and 7 offensives. I am looking forward to it if you decide to make it. I am just sorry you didn't take the opportunity to point at Sarajevo and say: "Sehen Sie diese Stadt? Das ist Walter"-ex-yu viewers older than 40 would go crazy

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response!

[@eamari87]

I have seen that film on KZbin! Das Ist Walter?

[@sasasale7772]

What about Serbian people how many Serbia people as partisan most was chetniks and not too most Serbian people like Chetniks

[@jankusthegreat9233]

U are awsome

[@HistoryHustle]

🥇👍

[@user-ue4nq3kc3j]

As a Bosnian, and a Sarajevan I can proudly say that we keep the flame of anti-fascism alive.

[@TheDzudas]

Hanjar was made to protect ourself from chetniks (serbs) , also many Bosniaks been in Partisans. My 2 grea grandfathers went to war one for hanjar other for partisanes

[@adnanfejzic5029]

The fact that all offensives were lead in Bosnia says that Partisans were insignificant factor in Croatia and Serbia. Even now, the nationalist sentiment is prevailing in these two countries.

[@Pete_B_773]

Based Bosnia!!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@MichaelPrucey]

Good presentation!

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@RobFiles]

I dare you to do a complete video on The Bleiburg Tragedy.

[@GothicKnight81]

Tragedy, hahaha. It was well deserved punishment for the Croatian Nazis.

[@RobFiles]

@@GothicKnight81 ooooh, the first Cetnik has appeared...

[@HistoryHustle]

Will cover that if I get there.

[@GothicKnight81]

@@RobFiles I am not Chetnik. neither I like them. I am Antifascist.

[@marklar9156]

Bleiburg was almost only justice your beloved insanely cruel nazis had to face so go to your local nazi meeting and don't come here with your extreme stupidities. Your comments are a real tragedy.

[@alekseypetrov8520]

I do like Bosnia. Bosna je jedina nasa domovina.

[@ak9989]

I started collecting at 14 in 1979, since my dad was a ww2 marine combat veteran.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting. What did your dad tell you about his experiences?

[@aidankitson7877]

"Local priests and merchants armed themselves against the Ustase" I find this a fascinating detail considering that the Ustase claimed to be Catholic

[@alswann2702]

Ortho schismatics I'd assume.

[@dariovukojevic926]

​@@alswann2702The entire video is full of bs.

[@NB-kq7lm]

Many clerks where involved in genocide and converting serbs. Fra satan majstorovic was one of worst

[@mohi6699]

I am sorry Stefan, but arent 80,000 in Jasenovac considered, untrue? And Croatian genocide denial.

[@HistoryHustle]

Croatian denial goes further than this. “[A] leading contemporary Croat historian, Ivo Banac, has reached a figure of about 120,000 victims in all the NDH-run camps. Others have settled on 80,000 victims in the camps of all nationalities, with Serbs making up about 50,000. […] One recent Croatian publication, which draws on the work of both Croat and Serb historians, estimates the total number of casualties in Yugoslavia during the war at 947,000, of whom 487,000 were Serbs, 207,000 Croats, 86,000 Muslims and 60,000 Jews.” Croatia. A Nation Forged in War (Marcus Tanner) 151.

[@milosnovakovic2940]

@@HistoryHustle Ivo Banac???? His family fled to US immediately after WW2. Can you guess why? He helped Tudjman(then future president of Croatia, known Serb hater, and holocaust denier)in organizing lectures at Yale in early 1990ies. And finally: In his later years, Banac was accused of historical revisionism. In a 2017 lecture organized by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pozega, Banac stated among other things, that the Ustase movement was based on the tradition of Hajduks and could not be identified with modern fascist movements. Banac also blamed World War II in Yugoslavia on the King Alexander's dictatorship and stated that Communism caused much greater damage than fascism. It seems that you are intentionally choosing your sources...

[@ohtututu]

The greatest genocide during World War II, in proportion to a nation’s population, took place, not in Nazi Germany but in the Nazi-created puppet state of Croatia. There, in the years 1941-1945, some 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Gypsies- men, women and children-perished in a gigantic holocaust. These are the figures used by most foreign authors, especially the Germans, who were in the best position to know. Hermann Neubacher, perhaps the most important of Hitler’s troubleshooters in the Balkans, reports that although some of the perpetrators of the crime estimated the number of Serbs killed at one million, the more accurate figure is 750,000.1 One of Hitler’s generals, Lothar Rendulic, who was in the area where the crimes were committed, estimates that in the first year of the existence of the puppet state of Croatia at least a half million Orthodox Serbs were massacred, and that many others were killed in subsequent years.2 French writers most often use the half-million figure while British sources usually cite 700,000 Serbs killed. Source: Edmond Paris, Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941-1945. A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. The American Institute for Balkan Affairs, 1961 @@HistoryHustle

[@ivanpeci1168]

​@milosnovakovic2940 80 000 is the official Jasenovac research center number.dont play number games with dead people thats not nice.80 000 os still a genocide just like 8 000 in Srebrenica is a genocide.

[@DevelopersDevelopers-xd2ui]

Nice

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@art.ist.]

Bosniaks (or Bosnian Muslims) are the biggest victims of World War II in Bosnia. They were used and deceived by all sides of the war. I do not deny the participation of a small group of Bosniaks in the Ustasha troops and SS divisions, but there was a lot of manipulation there. For example, according to my great-grandfather's story, the Ustaše (Croatian Catholics) often dressed like Muslims (they put a fez on their heads) and committed crimes. According to official statistics, most Bosniaks fought on the side of Tito's partisans, but there were also terrible crimes committed against Bosnian Muslim civilians on their side. In 1944, the Chetniks switched to the Partizan side en masse. Although they then changed their uniform, their minds were still ultra-nationalist and they continued the mass crimes against Bosniak civilians that the Chetniks had committed. Thousands of innocent women, children and old people who were not able to defend themselves died in those crimes. Thank You for this video!

[@AAA22323]

Foča 1942…chetniks committed war crimes on the Bosnian civilians. Cetniks have been committing genocide on the Bosniak population since the ottomans left in the late 1800s.

[@gludiousmaximus7918]

Right buddy .... Just talk to the Serb children that had their eyes gauged out my the ustasa while their teacher was raped in kozara. You were loyal to the ustasa unlike us serbs

[@user-qe4hl1wq5j]

Hi Stephan last year u make video about Macedonia and it was great but can you make a viedeo about war crimes from albanians in western parts in Macedonia, salute mr Stephan from Bitola Macedonia

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope to return there one day but not anytime soon.

[@LARESCIV]

It's also notable mention that in Nazi Occupied Europe, western Bosnia was first free territory recaptured by anti Nazi forces, at the time partisans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biha%C4%87_Republic

[@HistoryHustle]

Would love to cover this one day on location!

[@LARESCIV]

Sounds like neat idea as this isn't covered much at all on youtube, go at it!@@HistoryHustle

[@stefangrubesic2708]

Basically hell on earth, cant believe my grandparents lived through it

[@HistoryHustle]

Horrible times indeed.

[@sugbarnis]

Thank God I am Bosnian! All we want is peace and no FASCISM!

[@HistoryHustle]

I understand.

[@mihajlozaric6957]

My Grandfather explained it like this you was joining the Army who would first be in the Village if you want or not ...even Orthodox Serbs fight for the Ustashe in even as Generals! My Family was most in Partitzans and Chetniks ,3 brothers of my Grandmother was taken in one day by an Army and never came back ...nothing still knowing where they ended if they where forced join or just executed

[@stephanottawa7890]

Thanks, Stefan, for this edition today. What did you mean by "priests and merchant"? Are you saying that Croatian priests and merchants due to food shortages took up arms against the Ustashi? Also the terms Bosnians and Moslems are a bit difficult. Serbs in Bosnia referred to themselves as Bosnians or Bosnaks. Moslems were simply Moslems as they had no concept of nationality. It had to be invented for them by outsiders. They were for the most part converted Slavs, both Serbs and Croats, so when they joined either voluntarily or under pressure the umma, they simply became Moslems. They continued to speak their dialects and when they went to the mosques they heard prayers in a language that they simply mimicked. Most could not understand more than the rudimentaries of Arabic. It was not something taught like we teach modern languages today. The Serbs used Slavonic in their church, the Croats mostly Latin and the Moslems Arabic, so there was little difference in a strange way. Also because it was a religion adopted under duress, they were not all that religious. Drinking and smoking were very wide-spread to the point of being considered normal Moslem practices. Honest Moslems will know and confess to this. It is only with the war and the arrival of saudi-style Islam that we see the more radical changes, many not for the better in my opinion. It is indeed odd and sad to see young women with heavily painted faces under veils.

[@sevasthvostanski5588]

are you sure, although it is an undeniable fact that the Croatian Catholic/Muslim Ustasha killed the most Serbs, the fact is that the German Wehrmacht, not the "SS", shot over 30,000 Serbian civilians in occupied Serbia in 4 months of 1941 in retaliation for the Serbian rebellion

[@libertas5005]

Your comment is so full of inaccurate BS that it hurts my head reading it. Also, the correct spelling is Muslim not "moslem".

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

@@sevasthvostanski5588 It was not a Serbian rebellion, but a communist one under Tito's leadership. After that, they were expelled from Serbia and the Russians brought them only in 1944.

[@sevasthvostanski5588]

@@user-lf2jh2ru9f correct me if I'm wrong, the territory where the rebellion is happening is Serbia and the territories where the Serbs are the majority, almost all the rebels are Serbs, at least 80%, do you think that the Serbian peasants knew what communism was, they just wanted to fight against the Germans, the Croats ,Bulgarians, Albanians...more precisely, to kill anyone who kills Serbs, regardless of the enemy's nation's religion or race or ideology. To summarize, it was a Serbian rebellion that was used by communist opportunists.

[@albertmisic3876]

In Bosnia and Croatia NDH were conducted genocide towards Serbs, based on tree parts. One third kill, second drive away, and last third baptized in Catholicism. From two million Serbs in NDH their results at the end of war were 400 000 killed, 200 000 expelled and 200 000 baptized.

[@slavisaasus]

​@@lukasunjic750Read again his post. He said in NDH, not Croatia...

[@Fer-sc5sb]

...and remnants for the recent War !! 😮💥🔥💀 Can see how hard has been for Serbians, Bosnians, and Croatians to get along !! 😮 Religious differences fundamentally ...

[@coling3957]

Yugoslavia was "a hot mess" , as American say... little wonder it could not survive as a nation with such factions at eachother's throats. The Grand Mufti had fled British Palestine after a failed Arab uprising and collaborated with the Nazis.. his nephew was Yasser Arafat..

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes, it sure was a mess there in WW2.

[@felixmbandandayitabi4536]

Not even remotely related

[@poljoexpertdoo4278]

research drakulic massacre in 1942, if you are interested in real nature of NDH and ustasha movement

[@MMerlyn91]

Don't forget the Foibe when it comes to Partisans' atrocities, the Italians sure haven't.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope to cover that one day on location.

[@mirkomocetti2079]

No, noi italiani nn dimentichiamo...

[@didi_mega_dudu]

The pronunciation is not Yasenovach, it's Yasenovatz.

[@HistoryHustle]

I stand corrected. Did my best.

[@Deki_Srpska]

Bosnia has been crazy the past 100 years

[@HistoryHustle]

True.

[@midsue]

Agree

[@sevasthvostanski5588]

the last 100 years? here are some historical data according to the Austro-Hungarian census from 1879, Serbs in Bosnia were 52%, by 1910 200,000 Serbs were forcibly evicted, and 250,000 Croats, Czechs and others from Austria-Hungary immigrated to Bosnia, 200,000 Serbs were killed in WW1, in 1921 in 56.3% of Serbs lived in Sarajevo, today maybe 5%. Today in Bosnia, Serbs make up about 33% of the population. As a result of the systematic destruction of the Serb population, in 150 years the number of Serbs doubled and Muslims quadrupled, with the fact that Bosnia is a Serbian medieval state. it is symptomatic that Serbs are a minority today.a classic example of colonial doctrine in this case against Europeans,it is interesting that it took 560 years of Turkish, Austro-Hungarian and communist occupation and genocide against Serbs for Muslims to become a majority of 52%

[@prcbukvu2293]

300years

[@libertas5005]

More like, neighbors of Bosnia have been crazy. Bosnia - been in a sandwich between two nationalistic neighbors for 1000 years. Survived the Hungarians, the Byzantines, the Ottomans, the Habsburgs, the Nazis and the Communists, the Serbs and the Croats. Still survives to this day. Slava Bosni!

[@peterhughes8699]

Thanks Stefan.... and so continues the horrifyingly violent history of the Balkan states. Mostly dominated by criminal Fascist parties but the left also played criminal roles at various times. Other European countries also meddled and made things worse. Has anything good ever happened in these countries ?

[@libertas5005]

A lot of good has happened. Bosnia has one of the most unique cultures in Europe, and its geographical position has been both blessing and a curse. But in the long run, countries like Bosnia have character and remain on the scene for 1000 years. The first Bosnian state was formed as early as 10th century so... Even after all the struggles we still prevail.

[@jokodihaynes419]

i know the 13th SS Handschar mutiny I didn't know the 23rd SS Kama mutinied too

[@HistoryHustle]

Both did as far as I know.

[@draganstojanovic5964]

Very very bad video made to hide crucial facts. First fact is that Serbs were largest ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina before WWII. Refer to records from 1931 (in 1941 was not possible to write the population but birth rate was very high and it is easy to estimate/calculate population of each ethnic group). After the war things have changed although record from 1948 wont show it (as all Muslims were declared as Serbs) Regarding Jasenovac, there is 83145 victims with known names (documented), while vast majority could not be documented. Moreover, last months before closing this concentration camp, Ustashe were working on destroying evidences. Number is surely several to 10 times higher than 80 000 as author is targeting. Immediately after the war Republic of Croatia (Croatian themselves) organized commission of inquiry of Jasenovac and they came to conclusion between 680 000 and 720 000 where Serbs are amounting surely above 600 000. These are not my numbers. These were officialy used figures among the facts on Nürnberg court. Ustashe were claiming they killed over 1 million of Serbs only in Jasenovac. Frankly speaking, this statement is not true, but total number of Serbs killed by Ustashe is not far from that figure. In such circumstances talking about 80 000 victims and minimizing Genocide over Serbs (as author is doing) is being an accomplice in genocide. Talking about Bosnia as country not talking about genocide that COMPLETELY CHANGED ETHNIC STRUCTURE OF COUNTRY is obviously with bad intentions. The fact of all facts is that independence of Bosnia is based on genocide over Serbs in WWII. Without that genocide, Serbs would still be dominant ethnic group in Bosnia and overvoting (as 1992) would never be possible.

[@amirmonem8080]

Muslims were forced to register ad Serbs or Croats there was ni muuslim or bosniak category till the 70s. So every bosniak had ro register as croat or serb.

[@draganstojanovic5964]

@@amirmonem8080 They were not forced. Bosniaks didn’t exist as nation. They constituted or got recognized as nation 20 years later. Especially that vast majority didn’t have clearly defined identity. All they had was Islam as religion but national identity, no. As nation, they are they are descendants of Serbs (and to a lesser extent Croats) who converted to Islam during the Ottoman rule. I will never understand why that fact is denied just because it doesn't sound nice to someone. If they accepted their roots, they would quarrel less with their neighbors. Bosniaks are a nation. There is no dispute. I am also glad that they are finally recognized as a nation because they have a lot of their own peculiarities and a beautiful culture that permeates the oriental and European. This certainly does not mean that one should renounce the past or rewrite history to make it sound more beautiful to someone. Bosniaks are a new nation that grew out of the Serbian national corps. This is clear to every layman (not needed to be a historian) who has ever scratched documents from the archives from the Habsburg Monarchy or the Ottoman Empire. Any insistence on differences, which are certainly not great, only speaks of a crisis of national identity. Once again, regarding the census, let me repeat, it was not forbidden, but there was no such category as Bosniak ever before. The fact that Muslims declared themselves as Serbs in that census only covered up the extent of the extermination of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the WWII.

[@serdradion4010]

In long terms, BIH province was for a long time part of Ottoman Empire, then annexed and integrated in to the Austria-Hungary, Austrian half, and then Slavic states of K SHS/YU, FNRJ/SFRJ. Opposing politics of the A-H and Serbia are in contuaton, and they have produced ISC-NDH. Serbian Royals were blinded and fooled by the south Slavic, pan Slavic policies and thought that glory of beeing on the winning side in the Great War will last for ever.

[@ALIKN1-1]

Amen Hussainie was in Anglo Iraq war and he fled I didn’t …. He was in yoguslavia and he fled 😐

[@zalosnasova750]

Chetnicks started to fight germans on april.15.1941.while partizans waited stalin to end their friendship with germans.u didnt say that.after teheran confrence the west made dill with stalin about eastern europe.they were afraid that d day wont enough without soviet help.thats why chetnicks lost the war

[@mathiaspoelman1493]

Ze zouden hier een langspeelfilm over moeten maken, vind ik.

[@HistoryHustle]

Eens. Helaas is de Bosnische filmindustrie klein en heeft (te) weinig middelen. In Tito's Joegoslavië werden nog wel de nodige WO2-films gemaakt, maar deze waren erg eenzijdig, propagandistisch en actie georiënteerd.

[@mathiaspoelman1493]

@@HistoryHustle Jammer feitelijk, dat zo veel gebeurtenissen over WO2 zo weinig belicht worden terwijl ze vaak veel boeiender zijn dan de grote gebeurtenissen (die meestal meer effect hadden maar toch). Wel interessant wat je daar zegt, zal eens kijken of ik zo films kan vinden.

[@wellston2826]

I got fuzz on my fez once, it was difficult to get off. It was embarrassing walking around with a fuzzy fez. All the other kids laughed at me!

[@HistoryHustle]

An experience.

[@bratex2139]

Can you guess my nationality/ethnicity? I will spit some personal facts: - My grandfather faught in ww2 as a partisan fighter in Bosnia and Herzegovina. - My grandfaher's uncle was mobilized and sent by the Austrians to the Eastern front where he surrendered to Russians and joind the Allies so he can come back to fight off Austrians from his doorestep. - My great grandfather as a Hajduk guerrila fighter faught the Ottomans in Herzegovina in a big rebelious uprising. - My great great grandfather faught as a Morlac faught the Venezians.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting family history. Cannot guess your nationality... since the regions were so mixed after all... Serbian?

[@Cr4Zy8]

Looking at Bosnia in ww2 it was really interesting to se muslims in the axis army or the SS but still it was the center of everything happening in the balkans in ww2

[@zg8661]

Serbs were target in Yugoslavia

[@igcuric]

It is easy to tell history in such a superficial way. Not everything was so black and white. Why not take a look at the composition of the Ustasha government by nationality and religion? Why were Muslims predominant in the Ustashas? Why were many Serbs for the Croatian state, but they were fed up with Belgrade? Why not explore Jasenovac more deeply and why the story of Jasenovac exists. The topic is very complex, and history is written by the winners. Cheers!

[@HistoryHustle]

History is not written by the victors, but written by those with the most consistent and compelling arguments based on the evidence, backed by a healthy dose of rational logic and passion for debate. The key is not to apologize for any side but to take a firm stand for what's right and what's wrong. Or a quote of Max Miller: “They say 'history is written by the victors,' but in my experience, history is written by those who write stuff down."

[@user-zo4gy5co1j]

From Bassania Baton to Bosnia Ban from Bosnian Crusades to Miklos Horthy ustase and cetniks to 1990 war now God is destroying our enemies ✋😊

[@RadioSerbona7530]

So where is somw 1.500.000 discrepancy number of Serbs before and after the WWII in that region, if only 80.000 were killed in Jasenovac. 850.000 is the number of brutally massacred there.

[@HistoryHustle]

I am afraid these are inflated numbers. In Jasenovac around 80,000 were killed. Many others were killed outside in wild killings.

[@milansimonovic8267]

​@@HistoryHustleCroats used the Sava river to "deliver meat to the Belgrade marketplace". So if the Jasenovac complex is inflated, is Aushvic also inflated?

[@user-yi7mb9wl4o]

This was a good one, thanks. What about a skeptical breakdown of the Srebrenica massacre, recently proclaimed a 'genocide' by the UN in the face of a real-time genocide authored by Israel and the US. The context of repeated raids/massacres of Serbian villages around Srebrenica. How the war was conducted on all sides, not just the Serb side. The trucking in of bodies of soldiers killed at the front to presumably make it look worse than it was, why the Muslim army provoked the Serbs and then abandoned the village to its fate... And finally, what the Serbs actually did - a significant massacre, but genocide? Sarajevo is a city of Muslims and Serbs and it always has been. I worry that proclaiming genocide makes it harder for peace and mutual respect to take root, especially if it was not genocide but a big massacre in response to a lot of smaller massacres. Words matters, ask the Gazans.

[@HistoryHustle]

You propose to make a pro Serbian denialist video about Srebrenica? No thanks.

[@user-yi7mb9wl4o]

@@HistoryHustle Are you serious? You propose to turn this conversation into a virtue signaling competition? Ed Herman, Chomsky, M. Parenti, Diana Johnstone among others have clearly stated publicly and in writing that there was No Genocide in the Yugoslavian Civil War. This is important if we wish the word to continue to have meaning and it is important in terms of the relentless spin we subject our wars to. There were no good guys in that war and major crimes were committed by all sides. It just happens that the Serbs were the chosen demons to justify an illegal bombing campaign and occupation, that continues to this day. The Bosnian Muslims themselves, led by a man who spent WW2 working for the SS, did terrible things and Croatians committed the biggest single act of ethnic cleansing of the war period, but I personally don't wish to turn any of them into demons 'worse than Hitler', only to counter the one-sided discourse that has left the Balkans a permanent basket case - especially Bosnia and Kosovo. I've been to Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and I can see the effect of this perversion of history. You appear to believe the lies, maybe you believe the Russians launched a totally unprovoked attack on Ukraine and that the conflict in Gaza started out of nowhere on the 7th of Oct?

[@user-yi7mb9wl4o]

@@HistoryHustle Here's a history factoid for you: The Spanish forensics team that went into Kosovo after the NATO occupation found no mass graves, no mine shafts plugged with dead bodies, etc. They famously held a press conference stating more or less that they had been lied to and left Yugoslavia in disgust. Did you know that? Source: M. Parenti, 'To Kill a Nation'.

[@dobrivojepavlica1041]

Jasenovac , a konc camp where ustashe kiling more than 700000 people. There is another one Jadovno where 70 000 serb population were killed.

[@captnthracian2501]

Watch “500 forgotten “

[@HistoryHustle]

Care to explain?

[@TheSpritz0]

STEFAN- That was my first War- 1993 in Krajina (Battle of Medak Pocket) and Sarajevo! Later I had to return in 1999 for Kosovo!

[@HistoryHustle]

Really? What can you tell us of your experiences if I may ask?

[@TheSpritz0]

@@HistoryHustle I was in the Canadian Army United Nations Protection Force "UNPROFOR" we were attacked near Gospic preventing a massacre of civilians you can read about it on Wikipedia under "Operation Medal Pocket". It was life or death for these villagers so I HAD to fight, we were ordered to Protect them and the enemy was firing at us with intent to kill. Kosovo was 1999 mainly Convoy escort, checkpoints, and LOTS of patrolling preventing different Militias from infiltration into "Safe Zones".

[@zoricadjuric12]

​@@TheSpritz0who were you protecting? who committed the massacre? you don't mention. why is it so hard to pronounce?

[@josipivanic6755]

The Ustaše movement was founded in 1929 as a response to Serbian fascism and hegemony and as a response to the fascist dictatorship of the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty. Not everything is black and white as you want to falsely portray. The Ustaški movement is a reaction to Serbian fascism and hegemony during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. When the Ustasha movement was founded, it was a nationalist and terrorist movement like the Irish Ira, the Basque Eta, or the Palestinian Plo. Since they had their cells in Italy, they connected with the Italian fascists because the Italians also had an interest in the destruction of the Yugoslav kingdom.

[@josipivanic6755]

The so-called Krajina was a fascist criminal creation based on ethnic cleansing and mass crimes against Croats. The Medak pocket is located in Lika, and Lika is a region in Croatia.

[@avdohodzic775]

Bosna /not Bosnia/ never was recognized as a part of Croatia by the most Bosnjaks. The most Bosnjak was with Tito fighting nazis and that is a part of secret history that Serbs changed !

[@thelovertunisia]

we had the same here in Tunisia. The SS created a Tunisian division of the waffen SS but it was too late to be employed. Few people know this here because it has been hidden by government.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing. More on it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHOTo4qvmd93htUsi=UmqcYDOTJfVPAme7

[@afghaaj]

There are war crimes. And then, there are Ustashe crimes. It's hard to describe Ustashe crimes, sometimes the only word I can think of is satanism. There was this famous case of "children's dead kolo" ("kolo" is serbian national dance, when people gather and form circle to dance with music). This infamous crime happend at Kordun, when a patrol of partisans witnesses an unimaginable scene. They've found 24 dead serbian kids, 12 boys and 12 girls, noone older than one year, completely naked and put at the top of each other, in circle. Boys were put on girls, so it can simulate them having sexual intercourse, and they were rounded in circle, to simualte dancing in kolo. It was a really satanic sight, and many partisan fighters, who were though as they already endured hardships of war, just couldn't take it and bursted to tears right away. A real horror

[@HistoryHustle]

They were very brutal yes.

[@UzdahLjiljeNikolovske]

Pretty accurate description of that horrible period. You only lack one very important explanation. Ustasha movement was lot legal or legitime represent of Croatian people. They were not elected and had no support of majority of Croats. Before WW2 they were minor group without significant influence or support. Germany and Italy install them to power after occupation. You can see it in croatian resistance and participation in partisan movement. NDH (independent state of Croatia) was not independent or really croatian or even real state. It was just another puppet state of Germany/Italy. And that imitation of state was literally divided in german and italian "area of influence". Also, cooperation of croatian Ustasha and serbian Chetniks criminals is shown as underrated. They were "buddies" for most of the war while at the same time killing each other civilians. Insane.

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

Gentlemen, update your communist history a bit. Where did the Ustasas get their uniforms and weapons, did they buy them themselves at the flea market? When you show me an order that an Ustasa received from an ally, maybe I will believe you that the Ustasa and the Yugoslav Royal Army ever cooperated. In contrast to Tito's bum flies, Bakarica and Velebit, who every now and then go to Zagreb for negotiations with Pavelic.

[@LJ-pf8qk]

In Jasenovac around 1 million people got killed, most of them Serbs, number of 80000 is insulting to the Serbian history.

[@nikolamiletic4727]

Make movies about life in kingdom of Yugoslavija ffom1918 to 1941 how Serbians treat other nationalitis special Croats.and other nonn ortodox😢😢

[@HistoryHustle]

Please explain.

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

How about making a film about how Croatia, especially Zagreb, was built with Serbian gold?

[@hajnaletistaee8445]

that's how history played with Bosniaks. That people never wanted to accept the pope, they had their own religion and the Bosnian church, which was declared heretical by the pope. Bosnian rulers even falsely accepted Catholicism in order to save themselves from the crisis. 3 crisis campaigns were launched in Bosnia, fortunately they were stopped by the skilful manipulation of the Bosnian rulers. Later, the last king accepted Catholicism and started a violent rebellion, the people turned away from him and considered him a traitor to the Bosnian church at that time the Turks offered religious freedom and the people sided with the Ottomans in time they accepted Islam. Serbs and Croats see Bosniaks as traitors because they accepted Islam, and in fact Serbs and Croats were forcibly converted, the only people in the heart of Europe who resisted forced conversion are Bosniaks. It is a libertarian nation that defies death because of Islam in the center of Europe, and if 80 percent of Bosniaks do not practice Islam out of spite, they will not renounce it.

[@nidz3876]

Pretty bad video I must say, as you didnt explained how much Serbs suffered in NDH, and your claim of 80k people who died in Jasenovac are same as Croatian state(and their national interest is to keep the number low). You didnt explained how almost all resistance against occupation was done by the Serbs at the beginning of the war( Partisan or Chetniks). As someone whose family members were on Kozara and captured by the Ustasha(some died in Jasenovac, others were given to Croat families to help work on a farms) Im very disappointed in this video which is clearly biased towards fascist Croats and Bosnian Muslims(they become "Bosniaks" in 1993).

[@HistoryHustle]

First sorry for your family. Second, I refer to my sources. I am afraid you have your biases as well. I assume you are pro-Serbian and want me to emphasize the suffering of the Serbs (which I talked about in the video) as much as possible and tell how heroic they fought. Lastly. What are your sources?

[@nidz3876]

@@HistoryHustle Even english wikipedia which is usually biased against Serbs is enough of source for my statements. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia . They claim at minimum 200k deaths. For ethnic structure of Partisan formations you dont have to look further than where first uprising began. Drvar, Bosanski Petrovac, Lika etc. 90% Serbian population. Again Wikipedia for reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans#Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_2 . Croats and Muslims only joined in mass numbers after Italy surrendered. I dont want to lose time finding other sources and then you can say to me that my Serbian sources are biased. This is common knowledge at least in part of Bosnia where I live.

[@ShejtanVrbaski]

Correction, chetnik goon. Bosnian Muslims _regained_ their proper name Bosniaks in 1993.

[@nidz3876]

@@ShejtanVrbaski Ispravio sam ga jer je u par navrata govorio Ustaše i Bošnjaci su uradili to i to, a ako već priča o tom periodu onda mora govoriti o ustašama i Bosanskim Muslimanima jer Bošnjaci nisu postojali u ww2. Nemam ništa protiv da se tako zovete sada ili kako god hoćete, pričam samo o istorijskom kontekstu. I daleko sam ja od četnika..

[@RatkoAsanovic]

​@@HistoryHustle I am Serbian but I will give you a source from a prominent Israeli historian Gideon Greif so you can't label me being pro-Serbian as you did with my compatriot above. He wrote the book called "Auschwitz of the Balkans" (which I wholeheartedly recommend you to read it if you want to talk about this subject in educated manner) where he is writing about network of Jasenovac extermination camps (there were dozens of them and they were literally death industry and I am safe to say demonic place because of the ways how Croatian Ustashas were killing people there). Here you can see one shorter interview of Gideon Greif himself about his book: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioOchquthJyEorM He recorded dozens (I think 57 if I recall well) of ways of killing people and he cites in one of his interviews Yad Vashem sources (you have to admit they are quite meticulous with their findings) that over 800000 Serbs alone by his estimation were killed of which around 70000 were children alone. Ustashas in NDH were having extermination camps for children alone separated from adults (one of them was located in Sisak). Back then Sava river was flowing in red color from the blood of killed people in death factory called Jasenovac so you can have "visual perspective" for that matter. So Gideon Greif was referencing three publication from the investigations from Yad Vashem. First source: Holocaust History - Yugoslavia by Menachem Shelah published back in 1990 by Yad Vashem. On page 189 there is written "700000 it can be considered a real number". Quite similar or same figure was mentioned in the same book on pages 173, 188, 189 and 190. Second source: Community Registry - Yugoslavia by Zvi Loke published back in 1988 by Yad Vashem. In that book in page 316 under the term "Jasenovac" says: "By official estimations in the network of Jasenovac extermination camps it was killed over 700000 people. Majority of them were Serbs but among them there was 40000 Jews from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia as well as Roma people". Third source: Holocaust Encyclopedia by Israel Gutman published back in 1990 by Yad Vashem. In third book on page 575 is written: "In extermination camp Jasenovac there were killed over 600000 of Serbs, Jews, Roma and opponents of Ustasha regime". Basically Auschwitz of the Balkans book is full of cited credible resources. I am talking serious and respectable sources published by leading memorial center for preserving the memory of Holocaust in Israel. Croatians today or descendants of very same Ustashas wants to deflate the number [instead to repent nor there is a trace of repent for a genocide their ancestors did] of the victims (is the one you have used in your video incidentally) even though their land is heavily soaked with Serbian, Jew and Roma blood along with the bones from the very same people planted in Croatian soil... So these sources are not pro-Serbian bullshit as many of you who deals with historical "facts" or deceptions are taking it as such but it is from a source that no one denies or can't be denied. So here are the sources for you if you seek the truth and justice. I hope that you are the kind of person who is historian for those reasons alone. Yes, Yugoslavia after 1945 had their investigation commission and the person named Dr. Srboljub Zivanovic (pathologist) came to a figure of at least of 750000 people killed and he had to flee former Yugoslavia to Great Britain because of the threats addressed to him and his family. So you can decide for this one will you use it as you might label me being pro-Serbian but from the sources from professor Gideon Greif and Yad Vashem you can't deny that. As I said before I gave you the sources now do your investigation work properly. There was also one more investigation about the fate of Roma people in Ustasha NDH Croatia led by Dr. Dragoljub Ackovic in his study "Samudaripen Roma u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj" who was prominent and leading expert in Roma people history and culture. He came to a figure of 80000 of Roma people ALONE killed in most gruesome and demonic ways but again you decide will you take this one as valid. Roma people are living with us Serbs and it would be quite unfair and unjust not to mention their victims since we both suffered together from the hands of the same Ustasha demons in Croatia.

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Force 10 from Navarone

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Fer-sc5sb]

...boy do I 🖤 the Chets ! 😮😁

[@jokodihaynes419]

the veterans of the13th SS Handschar and the 23 ss fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

[@HistoryHustle]

This I did not know.