Croatia during World War II (1941 - 1945) - The Independent State of Croatia (NDH)

The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was Croatia during the Second World War. What happened in Croatia during WW2? The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was established when the German invasion of Yugoslavia was still going on. Led by the Ustaša organization under the leadership of Ante Pavelić. The Ustashas committed many crimes against Serbian and Jewish people.
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[@HistoryHustle]

This video is not made to insult Croatians. I know that this subject is sensitive to some Croats. Nevertheless, I think it is important to also discuss this dark chapter in Croatian history.

[@harbinger200]

Truth can never be a bad thing.

[@TOMARAKIC]

@@NemanjaBGD83 who's "they"?

[@croky5029]

@@NemanjaBGD83 Your country was created at Berlin Congress in 1878. Before that Serbs were part of Ottoman Empire While Croats did not have full sovereignity they still had statehood in form of Sabor all the way from 1102. when they crowned Coloman 'till formation of Yugoslavia.

[@TOMARAKIC]

@@NemanjaBGD83 well since both of my grandfathers were in Partizans and so were majority of Croats at the end of ww2 shows you either don't know your history or are just typical Croat hater. Well what is it?

[@croky5029]

@Kafa kafica When have Serbs had their parliament?

[@dnosic]

Just to know, Bosnian Muslims in NDH were regarded as Croats, and many fought in NDH military. Also, many Muslims were in the government. Many of them escaped after WW2 to Syria, and fought against Israel.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@gmg3627]

@@HistoryHustle Also, there were many muslim battalions within the Ustasa Army. A good example is the "Crna Legija" (Black Legion". These guys were mostly Bosnian Muslims from Sarajevo.

[@ankokunokayoubi]

fought in Six Days War?

[@goranmiljus2664]

Many also died as cannon fodder in Stalingrad serving their masters.

[@user-dm2qh6sf7x]

Yeah well long live Israel and thankfully Croatia is an official and proud ally of ISRAEL! SMRT FAŠIZMU! And SLOBODAN PRALJAK IS A HERO for fighting and killing those traitorous Muslims that killed Christian Croats and Serbs. Croatia and Bosnia belongs to CHRISTIANS both Catholic and Orthodox..... Those Muslims now sold their surname and religion for a free dinner..... 🇭🇷🇮🇱☦️✝️

[@alexs7189]

As an Italian, I am perplexed, why did the Italian fascists, who wanted to take the whole territory of Yugoslavia, and forcibly Italianise the peoples of the region, and also carry out mass murder, helped Slavic fascists, with opposing ideas? Obviously I think that the crimes of the Croatian fascists also fall on the Italian fascists, given that the latter helped them, let's not forget that the Italian troops carried out massacres in those territories, both against the Slovenes and the Croats, also having brutal camps of imprisonment, where even children were imprisoned, some died in those camps. As an Italian I can only apologize.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply, Alex. Soon more about the Italian occupation of Yugoslavia.

[@satrapish]

what are you talking about ? Italy never wanted the whole territorry of the artificial state of yugoslavia, the wanted Dalmazia not the interior lands. They helped the Ustasha movement because they had the comon enemy - yugoslavia that is pure tactical decision, same as have been done until today for every posible country.

[@alexs7189]

@@satrapish «Faced with a race like the Slav, inferior and barbaric, one must not follow the policy of the sugar, but that of the stick. The Italian borders must be the Brenner, the Nevoso and the Dinaric (Alps). Dinarics, yes, the dinarics of forgotten Dalmatia!… Our imperialism wants to reach the right borders marked by God and nature, and wants to expand into the Mediterranean. Enough with the poems. Enough with the evangelical nonsense ». Benito Mussolini 1920.

[@satrapish]

@@alexs7189 I am Croat, i know what Mussolini wrote but it didnt manifested that way. Theori is one thing but practic policy another. The contract signed in Rome 18 may 1941 established a border and it wasnt like this, not even 20 % what Mussolini and iredenta in Italy asked before.

[@CrackidoodlE]

I think that they were forced to by the Germans

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Very interesting yet a tragic story.

[@HistoryHustle]

#1 Thanks for your reply!

[@tturit]

I am Hungarian, and I actually never heard of Ustasha before. I only heard Serbs were the bad guys always, it is hard to realize history is teached differently country by country. Thank you for this great commentary video.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Túri.

[@nikolaivanovic3163]

Documentary about Croatian ustashas during WW2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amKVeXShYs6to68

[@fado322]

The Serbs were bad, because of their evil (they killed Croatian politicians, intellectuals, all the money went to Serbia, the Croats had less rights), some Croats founded the Ustasha to take revenge on them. I don't support the Ustasha

[@worldtube7425]

That is democracy... World doesn't know about that large genocide

[@nikolaivanovic3163]

@@worldtube7425 Documentary about Croatian ustashas during WW2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amKVeXShYs6to68

[@sammni]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS BUDDY NEVER STOP MAKING THEM.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@ZenexTheZealous]

As a viewer from Zagreb, I really hope you make more footage and videos while you're here!

[@HistoryHustle]

I recorded another episode in Zagreb, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHeVfZiYd7d6hLc

[@TheWilferch]

On of the best short videos I've seen explaining the complicated 3 factions that made up Yugoslavia during WWII, their names , locations, etc...well explained as an overview !

[@user-qd7mk4tm3f]

All nations have dark moments...... .....but only Croats had children concentration camps.

[@johnythecookedsteak4819]

As a Croat I think that too many Croats know too little about this part of our history. It is dark and embarrassing but its part of our history. We shouldn’t be proud of it but we shouldn’t forget it either.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@borisborkovic8894]

Mi to dobro znamo neznam što pričaš

[@johnythecookedsteak4819]

Prvo ne nisam Srbin. Hrvat, sam rodio sam se i živim u Hrvatskoj. Drugo, ti možda znaš o tome, ali reci to onima koji pjevaju ustaške pjesme, dižu desnicu i viču Za dom spremni! na, recimo, Thompsonovim koncertima ili negdje drugdje. Ja baš imam u svome razredu nekoliko osoba kojima je baš “fora” pjevati Naprijed mornari sa plavog jadrana ili ustaška se vojska diže. Da ne pričam o činjenici da jedan u razredu ima masku za lice na kojoj piše HOS za dom spremni! Svi rade filmove o Fašistima u Italiji, Nacistima u Njemačkoj, Militaristima u Japanu, ali Balkan ima definitvno isto takve, ako ne i gore, fašističke organizacije. Ustaše, Četnici, Rumunjska Željezna garda, Mađarska stranka Nacionalnog jedinstva i još druge. U tim državama, doduše, taj problem je malo bolje riješavan jer te države nisu imale rat devedesetih. A upravo je taj rat doveo do ponovnog dizanja tih organizacija. Upravo su u tom ratu slavu stekli pjevači koji su sa svojim pjesmama nesvejsno ili svjesno širili mržnju i samo davali gorivo tom ratu koji je tada trajao. Pod time mislim na Thompsona u Hrvatskoj, ali i na bilo koje druge pjevače iz Srbije ili Bosne. A sada za kraj. Zašto mislite da ljudi (pogotovo mladi) vole pjevati takve pjesme ili dizati desnicu. Zato što je to “egzotično” to je “cool” ili “fora” to je “opako” za razliku od mira i demokracije. I tu sad dolazimo to korijena problema. N E Z N A NJ E Mladi o tome neznaju onoliko koliko bi trebali, neznaju što podupiru vikanjem za dom spremni, kakvu zločinačku organizaciju oni zapravo podupiru. Jer se o tome ne priča koliko bi se trebalo, ne zato da se ljudi time ponose, nego da sljedeći put znaju što zapravo podupiru vikanjem Za dom spremni! Niti pozdrav Za dom spremni! niju zabranjen kod nas. U Njemačkoj samo dizanje desnice ti može zaraditi 6 mjeseca zatvora. Da se razumijemo,nije Hrvatska jedina sa tim problemom. U Srbiji taj problem je još puno gori, pa mislim gotovo bi se i moglo reći da im je ratni kriminalac na vlasti. Hrvatska doduše nije kao Srbija. Ne negira zločine koje je počinila u drugom svjetskom, ali je i dalje to jedan problem koji se treba rješiti ako mislimo nastaviti dalje. Isus je rekao:”Ne gledaj trn u oku brata svojega ako nisi pronašao brvno u oku svojemu” Zato prvo. neka Hrvati riješe svoje probleme jer ih definitivno imaju, a tek onda možemo gledati Srbe i kritizirati njih.

[@luckyluciano131]

Za poglavnika i za dom uvik spremni! samo jako desno ✝️

[@davidmiharija8683]

@@luckyluciano131 degen

[@eleanorkett1129]

Thank you for your presentation of another fascinating and tragic episode of WWII.

[@HistoryHustle]

You're welcome, Eleanor.

[@mosinnagant412]

Ver informative and entertaining. I learned a lot. Thanks.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great 👍

[@markoosc]

Thank you so much for the Video to many people don't talk about this part of ww2!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Marko.

[@xvsj5833]

So many fascinating details to understand and consider before WWII would take shape. So many souls needlessly eliminated. Thank you for sharing Stephon ❤️

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@seang3019]

This is fascinating. A gap in my knowledge is filled. Thank you.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply, Sean!

[@mikecheckpro]

Great content! Thanks for the information.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@MjrCarnyx]

Zoals gewoonlijk weer fantastisch uitgelegd, het ziet er naar uit dat ik mezelf elke keer herhaal. Toch blijf ik er bij. Vlot en duidelijk, daar houd ik van. Ook ontzettend tof dat je het van die locatie hebt kunnen doen. Groetjes

[@HistoryHustle]

Geweldig om te lezen, enorm bedankt! 👍👍

[@thegametwins7553]

Nice video, I cant get enough about it Please keep making content

[@HistoryHustle]

Will do. Thanks again ;)

[@WNH3]

"Operation PUNISHMENT" was new to me--I'd always heard "Op. RETRIBUTION"

[@HistoryHustle]

In literature I read both names.

[@WNH3]

@@HistoryHustle So, you taught me something else! Mission accomplished, sir.

[@zrinkajanjanin8397]

Shtraffen means punishment

[@j.a.emmanueltemplemann5627]

Great video. Like usual. Thank you

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@t.jjohnson6317]

Thank-you another great vid.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@stevebrindle1724]

Stephans channel goes where others do not! As a modern history buff myself, my subject of study, taking a degree in my spare time whilst working in an engineering factory as a machinist, was "Modern European and American History" Europe from Bismarks unification of Germany until the beginning of WW2, America from the Civil War until the death of Kennedy. Stephans work here starts of where my studies of Europe ended so I find it so interesting and informative! Stephan is a great historian! I recommend the work of English historian A.J.P. Taylor on events in Europe building up to war, as well as being a great historian, he was from my home town in the North of England!

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for your reply, Steve!

[@Fer-sc5sb]

I am a Chemistry major and History buffy ! Great comment dd !! 😁👌👌

[@todd5640]

So far you are the only decent historian on YT when talking about topic of Croatia in WWII and i respect that

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, feel free to share.

[@todd5640]

@@HistoryHustle i will its a good video also as a native croat i always get annoyed when people overblow numbers of victims of facist regime (dont get me wrong many defenetly were killed but international numbers put it from 69k to 90k not 700k or 500k that tito made up) and then procced to completely ignore what happened at Bleiburg and afterwards (i have many in extended family who were on Bleiburg and some that never returned)

[@EpicCBgamerOfficial]

Great work. You fill in many gaps.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@BunyipToldMe]

This channel never fails to teach, no matter how much I learn about WW2.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Andrew!

[@keithehredt753]

Great work Bro, Appreciate your time and research.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Keith!

[@luishernandezblonde]

The darkest aspect of the Croats is painfully the strong relationship between Croats and Germans. Unlike we Poles, Croats have a perfect relationship with the Germans, being faithful to the Austrians in the majority and later Germany, as seen with Josip Jelacic's rebellion of 19th century against Hungary (Jelacic's goal was to protect the Austrian crown). This made the Croats highly prone to the idea that they're a superior tribe of Germanic heritage being forced to speak a Slavic language. The Nazis exploited this, ingrained the Croats that they were not Slavs but "Slavicized Germans". This idea remains relevant even today, I can still assure you that a lot of Croatian nationalists share this kind of view based on my trip to Croatia three years ago.

[@nohlavopi8617]

I am Croat nationalist in mid 30's.. never hired this one before.. literaly not one Croat ever seid that we are some kind of germans who got slavic somehow.. we are slavs.. and we are proud of it.

[@luishernandezblonde]

@@nohlavopi8617 Slavs? What idea of "Slav" for the Croats? Literally by marching alongside the Nazis? I heard it everywhere, man. As much as Polish people respecting Croatia because of common Catholic and Slavic background, the fact that Croats did not experience oppression by either Russia and Germany is what driven this confusion among Croats themselves. There are a portion, I suppose, 10% of Croatian nationalists, still see they're descendants of Gothic people - and are widely embraced. The only war you fought was against Serbs, who could be considered little Russia (or Russia's puppet depending on circumstances), but it was a more equal war than between Poland and Russia. Are Croats Slavic? Germanic? Or either Illyrians today as being injected by Albanian chauvinism and Serbophobia?

[@nohlavopi8617]

@@luishernandezblonde respect to all Poles but you sir do not know what are you talking about.

[@markeedeep]

@@nohlavopi8617 no, he certainly does know what he is talking about, Poland is a majority native Roman Catholic nation of Slavic origin, yet it was precisely due to its Slavonic identity that it became a direct target for nazi German annihilation. And he's also right in that you all in today's Croatia are overwhelmingly ignorant and in a general state of cognitive dissonance in these types of matters, precisely because your anti-Serbian obsession obscures your own respective Slavic racial identity altogether. For if you were truly appreciative of this, you would be grieved by murderous Germanic racialism of the Nazis towards all Slavic people. That's why there is rarely something more historically absurd than the German loving "Independent State of Croatia", it's pure madness which unfortunately became a monstrous reality during world war II.

[@markeedeep]

@@luishernandezblonde In my own historical investigations of world war II, I eventually discovered a chilling, uncanny resemblance between Croat ustasha and Galician "Ukrainian" Banderists. You can say Croats are truly "Greek Catholic" in spirit despite practising standard Roman Catholic religion.

[@finnfyfe6082]

Great video as ever Stefan. Harsh times

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks.

[@markjones6564]

Another Awesome video👌

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Mark!

[@mralexlex]

In April 1942, Ustase slaughtered in the most brutal and violent way 34 members of my family in one day. Rest in peace, you're not forgotten!

[@HistoryHustle]

Sorry to hear that.

[@Uros_06_]

@Ante Pavelic Који ти је рог?

[@vhs7614]

How many of them 34 survived the war? :)

[@Uros_06_]

@@vhs7614 None.

[@Mr1960grguric]

Ratko Mladic Family was killed during WWII. The Result was he became the Equivalent to Max’s Ljuburic, z´the Metzgermeister a horror Slaughter, famous for Srebrenica killing 8000 Man and Children.

[@aiden6667]

I hope you make a video for every former republic of Yugoslavia,because they're all really interesting,each of the nations had collaborators and traitors,but each also produced heros who resisted and fought the occupators and traitors

[@HistoryHustle]

There sure is much more to cover! 👍

[@petardjurkovic977]

Great video

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍

[@vexer2942]

Excellent presentation.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great, thank you!

[@tillabalquidder9524]

An absorbing Hustle! History is factual recital explained in historical context and that is the science and art of the Historian..so well done. It is not factual recital excused by personal passion which alas many of the comments reflect.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@franjocavar5997]

​@HistoryHustle did you check all statements you used in this video. 90% of false informations are made from former komunist regime and serbs who falsificate history last 70 years. If you want good information contact Igor Vukić and he can explane all things with documents.

[@kjragg1099]

A few months ago I read “44 Months in Jasenovac” which I believe is the only written account from a former prisoner of a Ustase camp. Words are truly hard to describe the suffering of the victims of the Ustase. Just utterly horrifying

[@HistoryHustle]

@Kjragg: thanks for your reply. @Kafa kafica: in the camp were also Croats who were against the Ustashe. Not all Croats were supporting Pavelic.

[@HistoryHustle]

@Kafa: your comment go towards hate speech. Please stop else I'll have to ban you replies.

[@vladimirbotic2603]

@@HistoryHustle Untersuchen Sie, was in den Lagern in Serbien passiert ist

[@mario.-_-.]

@@northernstar4811 You know, but ... Before the shameful NDH, Serbia declared Jews undesirable and marked them with ribbons and escorted them to camps (there were several of them, Sajmište, Niš, Banjica, etc.). In August 1942., General Alexander Löhr declared Serbia "Judenfrei" (a Nazi term for an area cleared of Jews).

[@kjragg1099]

@Radagast in the book I mentioned. The author described a Ustase guard forcing a son to carve his father’s eyes out with a knife for no reason. He obviously refused. The guard then took both the father and son’s eyes. Pure evil

[@andrewsarantakes639]

Great content

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks 👍

[@neso_003]

Thanks for this important message

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@user-yl5qg2ij1q]

WW2 is really interesting topic , I started learning about it after playing WW2 strategy games

[@HistoryHustle]

Great you find it interesting.

[@misterscaz6011]

Me too Gurtej! I’m finding this series on “Axis Minors” very interesting because I play a game called ASL (Advanced Squad Leader) which features many different combatants including a lot of the Axis Minors.

[@misterscaz6011]

@dream eu you’ve either had too much to drink or not enough. Chill out.

[@user-yl5qg2ij1q]

@@misterscaz6011 I played world conquerer 4 and some hoi4 and age of civilization

[@stanislavkino]

Weer een interessante video! Was je vakantie in Kroatië voor de rest ook leuk?

[@HistoryHustle]

Dank voor je bericht. En zeker, was een topreis!

[@robertm.8653]

A very informative video as always! Have you contacted Indy Neidell and the WW2 crew to maybe do some episodes together?

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Robert! I did in early days when my country was still somewhat involved. Didn't work out.

[@robertm.8653]

@@HistoryHustle That is unfortunate to hear, but such is life. Maybe they could contact you when they will do more specials, perhaps about the dutch resistance or collaborators. If not, I will just look forward to more great content of yours!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@caslinden1373]

Weer een interessante video man 👍👍

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍

[@mario.-_-.]

It is interesting that the first choice of the Nazis (for rule in occupied Croatia) was Vladko Maček, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), but he refused... And then a Mussolini player stormed in!

[@mario.-_-.]

@Radagast Upravo sam nadopisivao za neupućene ;)

[@HistoryHustle]

Who knows what would've happened if Vladko Maček would have led the state...

[@brucewillixaspirinix9652]

@@HistoryHustle He wouldn't. Maček refused to collaborate with fascists, and he was the only democratically elected representative of Croats, the Ustaše were never elected! Croats refused collaboration, it was forced on them.

[@emanuel3345]

@@HistoryHustle There is no "if" in this case. The guy literally refused to rule that sort of state. He was strongly against fascism. Most Croats were. Macek was the only democratic representative of Croats at the time. Pavelic was an italian puppet, he escaped Croatia before returning with arms and fascists. Traitor to our people.

[@RicoBanani]

@@HistoryHustle Maček was the succesor of Stjepan Radić and he rejected Nazi propositions. Hence the lunatic Pavelić. Radić was killed in the yugoslav Parliament by nationalist Serbs. So, makes me think... what if Stjepan Radić was never killed? As a Croat who is a war child of the 90s I must say that this topic of Ustaša is an enormous disgrace for my people and country. And we will forever have to live with it and bare consequences of it like in the 90s. History is a strange sequence of events and should be approached as such. One should not invest himself into history personally or with emotions but study it with a clear head and learn from it for betterment of the human race.

[@MrD8ath]

Thank you for making this video because only few KZbinrs made video's about this, crimes of Ustašas are very unknown to many people I don't want to insult anybody but we need to speak more about this topic

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@vincenzo8934]

hope there will be a video about serbian warcimes in the ww2 to catholics, muslims and jews who were even more horrible...

[@vincenzo8934]

@@MrD8ath serbs did actually many warcrimes in 40s in the balkans and escpecially in the 90s in the 40s serbs were allied with fascist italians you impaladed croatian and muslim children alive in dalmatia and bosnia, so how can you defend yourself OUTSIDE OF SERBIA?...but you always blame the others except you..

[@vincenzo8934]

@@MrD8ath here some serbian concentration camps during ww2: kz sajmiste kz banjica kz beli krst rankovica manastir near belgrade (concentration camp for children).

[@vincenzo8934]

@@MrD8ath of course there is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata_massacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukovica_massacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trubar_massacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetnik_war_crimes_in_World_War_II

[@warwickmudge4114]

Croatia and the Ustasa is a brave subject to approach! Nice work. The things I have read documenting Ustasa death camps are some of the worst accounts I have read and up there with the Japanese in Nanking. Just a thought- have you an episode talking about Nanzi attitude towards Islam? I know the SS had contacted the leader of Islam in Jerusalem about the Jews early on and I believe he (mufti?) Iived in Berlin

[@HistoryHustle]

@Warwick: there is much more to cover about this topic. I already did make a video about the Free Arab Legion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHOTo4qvmd93htU

[@Nista357]

@@northernstar4811 You can keep lying to yourself as long as you want. For the whole world it is an extermination camp. It was destroyed by Ustashe, the job was only finished by Communists in order to hide Croatian guilt and shame.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

@@northernstar4811 Yeah, guess what, Auschwitz was also not a death camp, it's name was Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, or a concentration camp. But unless you are an idiot, you know damn well what Auschwitz was. And it wasn't destroyed - communists erected a huge monument there, a large museum and made more than a dozen films about it. So no one was hiding anything. Some things are simply way too big to hide. But since your defense is "it was called Labor camp" I think I know where this is coming from. Bok dečki, šta ima, kako je u lipoj vašoj ovih dana? XD

[@Nista357]

@@northernstar4811 That is not fake, that is real history. The camp was burnt by the Ustaše, there was nothing left for the communists to burn, they just removed the rubbish of the burnt buildings left by the Ustaše. All top communist leaders were Croats and during the war Ustashe in many cases armed and financed the communists, because they were fighting Chetniks. It was especially so when the Ustashe realized that the Germans will lose the war. So simply stop spreading disinformation because its really easy to check and realize that it was Ustashe that destroyed the camp before they left.

[@ljubicakovalovski3666]

Da malo cujemo o cercilu i titu kako su se ganjali po Drvaru BIH PA RAZBILI CITAV GRADIC.0

[@user-kq3jg8yq9t]

i love your videos

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@anteerceg527]

I live beneath this hill you filmed this on haha It's nice to see someone cover the mess that were the balkans in ww2 without bias.

[@HistoryHustle]

It looks like a nice area to live. Thanks for your reply!

[@amarillorose7810]

Italian General Alessandro Luzano wrote letter to Mussolini: Dear Duce, My boundless devotion to you, I hope, entitles me to deviate in some way from strict military protocol. That is why I hasten to describe to you an event that I personally attended three weeks ago. While visiting the districts of Stolac, Capljina and Ljubinje (between 60 and 130 km north of Dubrovnik) - I learned from our intelligence officers that Pavelic's Ustashas had committed a crime in a village (Prebilovci) the day before, and that when it became known, the surrounding Serbs will be upset again. I have no words to describe what I found there. In a large school classroom, I found a slaughtered teacher and 120 of her students! No children were older than 12! Crime is an inappropriate and naive word. It overcame any madness! Many had their heads cut off and lined up on school desks. The Ustashas pulled out the hoses from the torn entrails and, like New Year's ribbons, stretched them under the ceiling and drove them into the walls with nails! The swarm of flies and the unbearable stench did not allow us to stay there longer. I noticed a torn bag of salt in the corner and was shocked to find that they were slaughtering them slowly, salting their necks! And just as we were leaving, a child's grunt was heard in the back seat. I send two soldiers to see what it is. They took out one student, he was still alive, he was breathing with his throat cut in half! I take that poor child to our military hospital in my car, bring him back to consciousness and learn the full truth about the tragedy from him. The criminals first, in turn, raped teacher Stana Arnautovic and then killed her in front of the children. Eight-year-old girls were also raped. During all that time, a gypsy orchestra brought by force sang and hit the tambourines! To the eternal shame of our Roman church, one man of God, one pastor, participated in all this! The boy we rescued recovered quickly. And as soon as the wound healed, with our carelessness, he escaped from the hospital and went to his village to look for relatives. We sent a patrol after him, but in vain; they found him slaughtered on the doorstep of the house! Out of a thousand or so souls, there is no one left in the village! On the same day, we discovered that later, when a crime was committed at the school, the Ustashas captured another 800 inhabitants of the village of Prebilovci and threw them all into a pit or killed them in an animal way on the way to the pit. Only about 300 men were saved. They were the only ones who managed to break through the Ustasha ring around the village and escape to the mountains! Those 300 survivors are stronger than Pavelic's most elite division. Everything they had to lose they lost! Children, women, mothers, sisters, houses, property. They are free even from fear of death. The meaning of their life is only in revenge, in the terrible reveng - they are, in a way, even ashamed that they have survived! And Herzegovina, Bosnia, Lika, Dalmatia are full of such villages as Prebilovci. The massacres of Serbs have reached such proportions that many water springs have been polluted in those areas. From a spring in Popovo Polje, not far from the pit into which 4,000 Serbs were thrown, reddish water erupted, I was personally convinced of that! An indelible stain will fall on the conscience of Italy and our culture, if, while the time is right, we do not distance ourselves from the Ustashas and prevent it from being attributed to us for supporting insanity!

[@HistoryHustle]

A harrowing account, thanks for sharing this.

[@alexs7189]

As an Italian I say that it was also our fault, we invaded Yugoslavia, and helped the Croatian fascists.

[@amarillorose7810]

@@alexs7189 Yes, you occupied Yugoslavia, you created a problem for us with the Albanians in Kosovo when you occupied it, but you saved many Serbs from Croatia, otherwise the number, which was already huge, would be doubled, we will always be grateful to you for that. If Woodrow Wilson had not interfered in the London Agreement from 1915, where Serbia and Italy would have got the territories that rightfully belonged to them, the Italians would not have been on the side of the Germans in WW2 and many events would have been much different. Great injustice was done to both you and us after the First World War.

[@zeemiucin408]

😢

[@zeemiucin408]

Thank you !!!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Interesting, objective, informative.. Yup, learned a lot of new things today. Thanks teach! Thank you very much! Greets, T.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks as always for your reply.

[@blubac]

It is not objective and alot of it is false. I was like wtf is he saying, then noticed his name is Stefan (Serbian name), so it just normal serbian slandreing of Croats.

[@ottavva]

stop promoting communist lies

[@semkoops]

De ingezoomde shots op je gezicht geven het besproken onderwerp een zwaardere lading. Het heeft een sterk effect!

[@HistoryHustle]

Dank, leuk dat je het benoemt 👍

[@aleskosir2727]

Respect for Stefan for this video. The scale of killings, torture and violence is shocking. We must look to history to remember how the human could behave worst than an animal. Animals kill for food to survive, we can kill because of hatred and racism. I have met a lot of Croats and Serbs in my life, and they treated me with respect. Sometimes, I was perplexed by the attitude of some Serbs against Croats. I can understand the reason for their position better now. Please, we could spread knowledge and respect to others. But we should not forget the terrible part of history for preventing it to happen again. At my job, I work with a colleague whose grandparents lived in a Slovenian village next to the Croatian border. Some of his relatives were killed by Ustaša too.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi Ales, thanks for your reply and your additional insights on this.

[@artvinnd5534]

I hate the disneyfication of animals they kill not just for food they kill for terretories, mating rights, status in a group just watch some animal documentaries...

[@niksatan]

I agree, but you know, lot of "anti-fascists" killed "ustasa" too. Basically everyone killed everyone, and also "everyone" killed "everyone" for every and "every" reason.

[@dnosic]

Killed by the Ustase in Slovenia? Not possible, because the Ustase didnt have operations in Slovenia. Only is possible if they were partisans on NDH territory.

[@aleskosir2727]

​​@@dnosic There were 5 Slovenian vilages on the Slovenia/Croatia border included in NDH populated with Slovenian (south of Brežice - villages Čedem, Slovenska vas, Nova vas pri Mokricah, Obrežje, all together less than 1k people). There were some victims, but Ustaše didn't prosecute Slovenes as bad as Serbs

[@ultimouomo11]

For more background I would recommend this 3 part video series. It’s extremely detailed and provides much context from 1918-1934. Part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX6TZKGChreja7M Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rX3Sc3-Bl6Z2qqM Part 3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZPOloSjjbKqebc

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

Great video professor Stefan! I think you explained a very confusing time in this part of Europe very well. EVERY nation and/or cultures/peoples have bad elements as well as good. Although this may be a very sensitive subject to certain peoples from the former Yugoslav territories before, during, and after WW2 it is a correct picture of the various atrocities that took place and this part of history isn’t meant to exploit any specific group or culture but like so many aspects of history all over the world it is meant to show people in the future who study these facts of what not to do moving forward. Again being a history teacher myself I believe this was a very accurate representation told very well!

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

@@stevegodenich7087 he mentioned that the partisans committed many crimes themselves. I’m sure there are things he didn’t mention from the entire scope of the problem but he did his best it was one of the most complex conflicts that ever existed. I think you should give him some credit. And it wasn’t one sided at all he didn’t favor or not favor anyone it was completely unbiased. But I will agree there were some things most likely left out because it was extremely complex but the general scope of the issue was discussed.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

@@stevegodenich7087 I totally understand what you’re saying and I appreciate your comment also. I am Not speaking for professor Stefan but All I am saying is I am very sure he knows much if not all of these facts as I do also you are talking about, But I just think he was trying to stick to one part of this timeline due to simple time and making a short and informative/interesting video focused around ww2. The topic of Gavrilo Princip for example could be made into one whole video by itself, again it was one of the most extremely complex situations; The conflicts surrounding the formation and breakup of Yugoslavia and all of the different factions involved in the fighting and the endless number of unfortunate people who fell victim to the brutal violence.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Nick!

[@drazantodoric6040]

Thank you for the courage to historically present the crimes on the territory of the NDH.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@edwinlee6864]

Ante Pavlovic escaped to Argentina, in 1957, he was wounded by a Serb and went to Spain. He died in 1959, from his wounds.

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes, indeed.

[@milostomic8539]

Blagoje Jovovic was the man who wounded him with two bullets. Doctors were afraid to remove bullets from his body because Pavelic had diabetes.

[@user-df9yp7vp6v]

Who is that ante pavlovic?

[@Gyatttt1443]

Thank you for teaching this, Croatia under Ante Pavelic was almost forgotten in ww2 history, of course w/ the exception of the Serbs.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@Dark_Matter2]

Thank you for spreading truth.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@draganostojic6297]

It is hard to understand why Germany let this terror go on for so long given it created constant gerrila situation which kept significant military presence while Wermact was bleeding in Eastern Front. I read somewhere that when Himmler reflected on situation in Yugoslavia and said that it was a mistake putting Ustashas in power.

[@HistoryHustle]

I think initially the Germans wanted to destabilize the area but that went gruesome out of hand.

[@dnosic]

@@HistoryHustle Quite the opposite. Germans wanted a stable country, without needed Wehrmacht involment, so they could focus on USSR. The Ustase were put by the Italians.

[@Paris-xv9sj]

Very nice that you talked about the Independent State of Croatia, few people know about the many crimes committed by the Croatians during World War 2.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@vhs7614]

Even fewer people here know about this book: Serbian Anti-Semitism and Exploitation of the Holocaust as Propaganda.

[@OkOk1100]

@@vhs7614 have you heard of Jasenovac?

[@vhs7614]

Have you heard of evidence? Not hearsay, forensics? 80 years and nothing... And why wasnt it done? Croatia would dig it but its not allowed. We would welcome international forensic teams and scientists but that also is big no no. So who is stopping scientific research to end all of manipulations?

[@OkOk1100]

@@vhs7614 so you have heard of Jasenovac. The world will know of your crimes, you can't hide it.

[@BrataN02]

Hello! I have only recently sadly discovered your channel but I love it. Just so you know I live in Croatia and I have a great passion for history. All of these stories you have presented are accurate. Nazis were so shocked they even planned and invasion on NDH. Ustaše were traitors of our people and yes at first people welcomed Wehrmacht with flowers but keep in mind that without Croats the resistence led by Tito would not be possible. It is a shameful part of our history but it happened unfortunately. It is also sad tha a lot of people today see Ustaše as heroes of our people but most people including me know better. My great grandfather was a guard in Jasenovac although i never met the man but grandma told me when he got drunk he would tell what horrors hw saw and kinda did. On the other side of my family we have communists who fought the Ustaše so yeah it is kinda crazy. Love your content and keep it up. You have earned a sub.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hello Marko, thanks for your honest reply. Very interesting how even families were divided. Luckily we're better of living today (although there always will be challanges). Thanks again for your reply. I have a playlist about Yugoslav History, so if you're interested, it's right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6rShHSah654f6s

[@mihajlovucic6417]

@@HistoryHustle Yes even the families were divided and in some areas it was rather a rule not an exception. As a serb i know that many fathers would send half of their sons to join partisans and others to join chetniks so that women and children and the rest of the family wouldnt be targeted by one of the sides. Nevertheless they were targeted. Its crazy to imagine that the people who were the main victims of the ustase, ended up fighting among themselves, killing their neighbors and brothers. At the same time, hats off to all the croats and muslims who fought against the regime when all their fellow nationals took part or supported or kept silent about the full scale genocide happening around them.

[@lsmola]

@@mihajlovucic6417 In many places you have one village that was under fascist control and right next to it another under partisan control. In most cases common folks went into the force that first came to the village and pointed a gun to their heads. You had many cases where one brother would be in ustasa army and another in partisan army depending who got to them first. That whole part of that history is sad and like you said neighbour was killing neihbour and brother shot brother.

[@noobsaibot1890]

Croats were sooo little in numbers in Partisan squads, that they should not even be mentioned as members of Partisans. First large groups that joined Partisans were in 1944, when those pussies realized the war will soon be lost, so they ran for their lives and joined the winning team. Stop calling Croats as one of the victims of Ustashe regime. Thats a spit to the face of Serbian victims, the real victims of Ustashe regime. Thats the same as calling Germans as victims of Nazi regime, almost the same as Jews.. Its just a spit to the face of poor Jews in Europe in WW2. Thats disgusting. If your grandpa refused to be a guard in that Hell on Earth, he would probably be killed, so for Croats was easier to accept the Pact with Lucifer, than be a real human and accept death

[@tomislavkolic9160]

ustase were traitors of our people, get a grip mate, they wanted an independent croatia, you turn your back because of some bullshit serbian accounts.

[@OasisWullie1872]

History's Objective Observer! ✌😉

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

Can you do an episode on dutch ww2 weapons or the weapoof the indonesian war for independence?

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps in the future one day. I actually have a video on the Dutch 1940 army: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5bWqmeBgM2jmtE And Dutch colonial army: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aH7Pk4WGn9WjhdU

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

@@HistoryHustle bedankt

[@lucaschiantodipepe2015]

I bought a book in Italian "Tomislao ll", the story about the Duke Aimone of Savoy Aosta, the king of the "indipendente state of Croatia" that never got effective power while the Supreme leader was actually the Poglavnic Ante Pavelic.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sounds like an interesting read.

[@lucaschiantodipepe2015]

@@HistoryHustle the book is "il sovrano sconosciuto, Tomislao ll re di Croazia" ( "the unknown sovereign, Tomislav ll, king of Croatia") by Giulio Vignoli, teacher of the University of Genoa, Italy. By the way, his nephew work in Russia as the rapresentative of the Italian brand Pirelli and the order of Malta knights.

[@Fer-sc5sb]

Interesting !! Makes sense, with this knowledge; "the Battle of the Naretva river !" Man ! Danke ! 👌👌👌🙏

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching.

[@tronozac8173]

With about 700,000 killed, Jasenovac was the 4th camp in Europe, but it certainly holds the first place in terms of atrocities. People were killed in 57 different ways. They even had slaughter competitions, in one of them Petar Brzica won with 1350 slaughtered in a row. The only country that had camps for children aged 14 (Jastrepsko, Sisak, Pag, Livno ...)

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope one day to visit the remains of Jasenovac.

[@tronozac8173]

The construction of the Donja Gradina memorial complex is planned (it is a part of the camp located on the right bank of the Sava River, in Bosnia)

[@tronozac8173]

It is about the fate of archival and museum material from the Jasenovac camp. Based on the agreement that the then Prime Minister of RS, Milorad Dodik, signed on October 27, 2000, with the director of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, Diana Salzman, the material was given to that museum. The complete material that Dodik gave to the Holocaust Museum with his signature, believing, as he said at the time, that it was "a good thing for Republika Srpska, because the whole world will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the crimes of genocide in the Ustasha NDH", after more than a year days from Washington she was returned to Croatia, where she mostly ended up in the depot of the Public Institution "Memorial Area Jasenovac" away from the public eye.

[@kingovic15]

@@tronozac8173 serbs had concentration camps for children aswell kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5Sxh4qPo9x8fMk

[@tronozac8173]

Kingovic What was his name? Where was he? How many children went through it? How many were killed? Who organized and led it? I am ready to learn something from you and you ask something about your history if you are not ashamed?

[@SamVidovich]

There were only three grandfathers left to the 75 families in my father's village after the war. Remember Glina Remember what happened in Kordun Remember what happened to our people.

[@HistoryHustle]

Very sad. Thanks for sharing.

[@goranmiljus2664]

What they did not finish in 1940, they finished in 1990.

[@SamVidovich]

@@goranmiljus2664 and now krajina is nothing but blooded fields and empty villages.

[@overlord165]

And also remember what the Serbs were doing in Eastern Bosnia during that same time.

[@SamVidovich]

@@overlord165 oh I will not forget that either. Nobody should. It's just so much sadness. Why couldn't people with so much in common reconcile their differences? Why did it come to this? In WW2? In the 90s? Why were my relatives killed in WW2? Why were they dispossessed half a century later? Why did the Bosnians have to die at Srebrenica? And how many other places? Wasn't enough learnt about suffering? Is pain forgotten so easily, and is vengeance worth the damage to the soul? Why is there so much hate? Is it still there? The echoes of these actions ring hard down all of our family lines, to the places we were dispersed to, through the countryside of the peninsula our ancestors shared. That vengeance: that costly vengeance has only served to damage the hearts of the children of those involved, destroy families, and obscure the vast and beautiful cultures of the entire region. I wish for us, those downstream from the horror of the past, to think of each other as brothers -- not enemies. No less, to keep in mind what has happened, and honor our dead, with the understanding that we must never allow it to happen again.

[@tovartovarski5522]

Josip Broz Tito was a Croat. Same as the majority of the leading Partisans: Ivo Lola Ribar, Andrija Hebrang, Franjo Tudjman, Vladimir Nazor, Vicko Krstulovic, Janko Bobetko, Stevo Krajacic etc etc etc…not a single serb among the top Partisans. Of course not since Serbs were mainly supporting the Serb dominated status quo with a serbian self proclaimed „king“ dictatorship…while Partisans and Ustasa were both revolutionary movements fighting against this status quo. During the „Kingdom od Yugoslavia“ the imprisoned Communists and the imprisoned Ustasa were openly collaborating and supported each other and even visited funerals of their respective members killed by the serb dominated „royal“ dictatorship regime

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@tovartovarski5522]

@@HistoryHustleread Bogdan Krizman‘s excellent books on this topic. Or Hrvoje Klasic‘s new documentary about the „NDH and the Ustasa“ on tv. Klasic is known as a leftliberal historian supporting rather the Partisans…but even he emphasized the fact that Communists and Ustasa collaborated in preWW2 Yugoslavia against the serbian dictatorship regime. As I said…both were revolutionary movements fighting the Serb dominated status quo of a dictatorship „kingdom“ with a selfproclaimed serbian „king“ tyranny at the top of the state.

[@Lionzvezdara78]

Actually, the uprising began in Serbia, there was Užička republika free teritory for a while as early as in 1941, Serbs were being killed in german repraisals. No Croats suffred really in WWII from German on Italian or Hungarian hand

[@user-ep9tp4sf8c]

1:15 a photo of SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russian imperial capital. Taken on Admiralty prospect next to the Alexandrinsky park near the Admiralty, a part of the Palace square is on the background with Alexander column and Guards Corps Headquarters building. Also typical Petersburg omnibuses are present on the photo.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sharp! Guess wrong image slipped in.

[@user-ep9tp4sf8c]

@@HistoryHustle just the city I live in :) was amazed to suddenly see it in this video :)

[@bojankotur4613]

The partisans liberated Yugoslavia. Period. The Bleiburg massacre does not change that fact. You putting the word liberated in quotation marks does not change that fact. The Germans didn't just pack up their stuff and leave on their own. They needed to be kicked out by force.

[@HistoryHustle]

No, that indeed doesn't change the fact. Kinda self evident.

[@simapark]

Bullshit I was the Red Army who liberated Yugoslavia especially Serbia. If the allies had landed in Greece rather than Italy Tito and his Partisans would be toast . Look at the example of Greece after the war ,once the British joined in the Communists were finished

[@bojankotur4613]

@@simapark the soviet army entered Yugoslavia in December 1944. By that time the war in Yugoslavia has been going on for almost four years. To say that the Red Army liberated Yugoslavia is downright insulting. Yes, they helped liberate Belgrade amongst other things but they did not liberate the country.

[@Parabellum-oe3sw]

Imagine how evil one must be if somebody flees to german controlled territory in ww2

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@user-qn2yf3ok5f]

@@HistoryHustle im sorry to inform you,but you dont know 1% of what is there to know about yugoslavia,and this is professional negligence

[@HistoryHustle]

Says who?

[@user-qn2yf3ok5f]

@@HistoryHustle your sources are 2 historians,both royalists,maybe u should first study the historians not the history! i am nobody,barely passed the high school,but my logical mind is working just fine

[@user-qn2yf3ok5f]

​@@HistoryHustle maybe you should put a disclaimer,that you dont know the language,so your access to 99% of sources ,books , papers and documents on the subject is inaccessible. puting things on air,where is so much death and suffering is irresponsible. people tend to believe what they hear.

[@mammuchan8923]

As fascinating as history is, it sometimes so chilling to listen to. Great detail on the last European battle👍👍👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks! Hope one day to travel to Odzak to cover is as a forgotten WW2 battle.

[@jusufgarogan1745]

Good work. Read it books "Mourning over Germany" printed in London 1638, and "The European Stage" (the second volume, which was printed in 1679), a book entitled Swedish Arms from 1631, as well as historical documents that are usually printed together and are known under the title Letters from Cerbst dated January 11, 1631. In the end, let us quote from the book Swedish Weapons only one detail that will later be repeated successively in the Balkan areas of the NDH (soaked in Serbian blood) in the 20th century: "Two soldiers found a small child screaming lying on the street, each of them took one of them by the leg and tore it out in the middle."

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks. These are some old books I guess.

[@curiouslyme524]

Thank you, sir. I just ordered Stevan K. Pavlowitch's book about Yugoslavia's dark history during WW2 to inform myself more.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great read!

[@tonycavanagh1929]

I served in the Balkans 1995 and again 196 as part of IFOR British Army. So much deep rooted hatred, across class as well as ethnic lines. I have been back to the Balkens a few years ago to the Gucca Trumpet festival with a very good friend of mine who is Serb.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply Tony! The 1990s was also a tragic time there. Hope you got out well.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

@@HistoryHustle I had PTSD but not until 2016. I had changed but never noticed, I was a civvy at the time but in the reserves. I was called up again for Iraq. And I came back again more darker more cynica, and a very aggrsive edgel. But did not notice but others did. Then one day I woke up with no job no relationship and most of my friends gone. I did not realise that I had driven everyone away. I am lucky sadly I know friends who took there own lifes.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

There's actually little hatred. At least not from the people. Most of it was pumped by politicians (divide and rule) who were and are on the payroll of your politicians (British, German, American...). And it can best be seen when you have the people who actually suffered - we don't hate. The greatest hatred is festering today in people who've not been a part of it all - either too young or their entire contact with it was through media. So no, hatred is not deep rooted at all - it is superficial and constantly fed and watered - by a foreign element. We speak the same language (how ever you wanna call it), we have fiends from pretty much every ethnic group, we celebrate together, we mourn together. Hatred is artificial - always was. And was always prompted by a very vocal minority on a foreign payroll. And when the shit hits the fan, the same politicians of yours then send you to suffer to "calm things down". The result? Destroyed countries, sowed hate, lives ruined, your battle buddies traumatized... and politicians with filled pockets, happy as can be. You know what happened after all that kerfuffle in the 1990's? We all ended piss-poor, and all our companies being bought by conglomerates from your country/countries. It was never about anything but your elites making money out of some good folks that managed to mend most of the wounds from history. And in the process, they didn't even care about you, let alone us.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

@@Wustenfuchs109 Yup I agree. Its not like you are worse than the rest of us. But its just to easy to get people to hate and fear each other. We had North Ireland, I am part Irish and I served over there, Same people , same language. Even the same tunes, you have to listen to the words to work out which side they are on. 40 years of hate and a war. After the Balkans I toyed with the idea f writing a book set in Britain where Scotland and Wales broke away from England. but in each new country there were English who did not want to move back to England but wanted to stay part of the UK. It starts of with peaceful protests, then violence then riots then calls for English troops to protect English minorities. You get the picture.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

@@tonycavanagh1929 Of course it is - all you need is a small vocal group that will make a mess and blame the other side. A few months of that, and you will have a full blown civil war in any country. That's what sparked the fire in the Balkans. Things were preparing for a long time - as far as various agencies were concerned - but there was a problem of turning a disgruntled masses into masses that want to kill each other. That is where dirty work came in - a group of Croats would throw a bomb at a cafe that is full of Serbs, and then another group of Serbs (working with those Croats) would portray it as Croats VS Serbs, instead of everyone VS some criminal idiots. Repeat that a few times, control the media - and you get yourself... well, Yugoslav Civil War. All other preparations, betrayals and shenanigans were useless unless they got people to see their next door neighbor as a monster who ought to be killed. That was the breaking point. And that - it can be done anywhere, anytime. For example, USA today - that's some tinder, dry as can be - if someone wanted to spark a war there, they would not even have to work that hard...

[@dc1313drc]

I say Pavelic did answer for his crimes when he was mortally wounded by a Montenegrin Serb while getting off of a bus in Argentina. It took him two years to die, yes, but that bullet in his spine killed him.

[@HistoryHustle]

Fair point.

[@hunguy3280]

Croatian secession from the Communist State of Yugoslavia in the 1990's was supported only by Hungary and the Unified German State, however the US did not support the Break up of Yugoslavia nor did it support Croatian secession. Hungarian support was manifested by secret supply of arms to Croatia.

[@HistoryHustle]

Okay, didn't know this.

[@harbinger200]

Of course US organized secession of Yugoslavia and supported Croatia with weapons.

[@hunguy3280]

@@harbinger200 yes dream on and do a little research. Google could help you. Yes maybe the US was never in alliance with the Soviets.

[@goranmiljus2664]

Germany also gave them the old soviet GDR weapons.

[@SillyUwUBilly]

I suppose Ukrainie would look similar if Germany allowed OUN to from a gov. .

[@HistoryHustle]

Who knows. It is likely...

[@bladudemovies]

This video is so fresh you can still hear the dogs of war!

[@HistoryHustle]

Ok!

[@mariyanadobreva8724]

I congratulate you for your courage to tackle this subject. And you are right, it must be discussed. It is very important to stress that not all Croats supported the Ustaše, and among the victims there were also Croats (including in the death camp of Jasenovac). Unfortunately, the Catholic church supported the psychotic Poglavnik and was involved in forced conversions to Catholicism. Whatever the partisans did to the Ustaše pales in comparison to the unspeakable atrocities of the Croatian Ultranationalists. Videos like yours are extremely important, especially to inform people outside the Balkans. Because of politics, many of them tend to view Croatia more favorably than Serbia (same for Ukraine and Russia). Thank you very much.

[@PreemL]

Good points

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying!

[@draganostojic6297]

Hi Maryanna, my wife's grandmother who is from Croatia and who's family suffered terribly under NDH told my wife that many Croats especially from police and home army (Domobrani) were giving them advanced warnings if Ustashe would be coming so they would try to hide in the woods. I believe majority of Croats didn't support terror but were afraid to speak up fearing their own safety.

[@mariyanadobreva8724]

@@draganostojic6297 I agree with you. Those criminals did not spare even their countrymen. Поздрав из Канаде.

[@noobsaibot1890]

Thank you for realizing the real truth and trying to spread it around the world. Croatia is considered almost as one of the Allies from WW2, which is not true even 1%. Croatia was Nazi from 1941, until 1945. Croatia victims can even be counted by names and surnames. Their victims are so little compared to Serbs and Jews. Those "Croats" were mostly someone that had some connection to Serbs (they were relatives, first neighbors or just regular croats that didnt want to support the Ustashe regime) , but they were sooooo little in numbers. People should stop adding them to the victims , because people will misunderstand that and not get the real view of what Croatia really did to Serbs.

[@00MSG]

As a Croat I feel ashamed how unapologetic many of my countrymen are about this period even today. It was te darkest chapter of our history.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your honest reply.

[@00MSG]

@@HistoryHustle thanks for the video! Subbed. Especially for the video about slovenia, that country is always left aside.

[@Nathan-pw9nl]

@@kategoried7501 jedino dijete tu si ti hahaha da si stariji od 10 godina proucio bi povijest umjesto da slusas kaj ti pijani stari govori.

[@jasminvoloder2724]

I will never be ashamed of people who save as from genocidelay serv maniacs

[@Mali-xn6to]

Great video, 95% truth, great Job Stefan. Samo nastavi stari 😉 👏👏👏

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@milostomic8539]

This is one of the reasons if not THE reason why Yugoslavia broke up in the 90's - similar nations fighting on different sides throughout history.

[@HistoryHustle]

It indeed contributed to it yes

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Sad 😢👌

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@MrCSRT8]

The savagery of Ustashi massacres was propelled by Roman Catholic religious zealotry. This is well known despite denials by many Croats.

[@gilgalad7698]

so in 1941. after Croats declared Independent State of Croatia, Serbs started with rebellions in Croatia because they felt "threatened". Same thing happened in 1991. after declaration of Croatian independence, same people started with terrorism, yes that was terrorism. Just look what happened in Srb uprising in 1941. nobody wanted Croatia to be independent, Serbs, Italians, even Croatians (communists), unfortunately NDH was doomed from the beginning!

[@HistoryHustle]

Although there are similarities I don't think you can say "the same thing happened in 1991". That's an over-simplification.

[@jonathangat4765]

Tough subject. Well done.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks, Jonathan.

[@3opaH]

Maybe you can understand now why Serbs couldn't accept the new Independent State of Croatia in the 1990, who's leader and president was directly backed up from Ustaše movement from abroad. Sadly, the new IS of Croatia and Germany fullfiled Ustasa dream: ethnically clean and Serb- free state. Regarding the number of killed Serbs in Jasenovac alone: there are 88000 officialy registrated names. You can now imagine the reall number. How many of 1.3 million Jewish victims from Auschwitz are actually registrated by name?

[@jonomobono3223]

So thats the reason why serbs wanted a great serbia and tried too extermiante all croats, bosniak and albanians from the balkans because theyre evil and deserved it? Why serbs actually attacked amd killed over 20.000 albanian women ans children in kosovo? Also because of ustashe?

[@vuk.505srb]

​@@jonomobono3223We never wanted that😂

[@user-qd7mk4tm3f]

@@vuk.505srb he is a just sick croat troll with tons of nicknames

[@dropbox-yr3tg]

@@vuk.505srb of course you did...just read what dobrica cosic, seselj or milosevic said

[@vuk.505srb]

@@dropbox-yr3tg What about NDH isn't that also greater Croatia?

[@mdev3987]

In Bleiberg there was also Serb Chetniks and Montenegrins. They were also running away from the partisans.

[@HistoryHustle]

It sure deserves a stand-alone episode.

[@mladentomic7249]

Fact that they didn't have a trial was their trial.

[@franjocavar5997]

most of četniks went to partisans after April1945 and they were sent to torture croatian people who went to Bleiburg and Slovenia.

[@BokicaK1]

I see that Your sources is Stevan K. Pavlović. May I recommend as supplement Croatian-American historian Jozo Tomasevich? He published two books in English related to war in Yugoslavia, first one being War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: The Chetniks and second one War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration (posthumously). As a Serb, I think that he has very reliable, and often quoted in Croatia, Serbia and in books published in English.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi! Thanks for your reply. I did use the book of Tomasevich. You can see it under SOURCES below the video.

[@BokicaK1]

@UC5-yqFJvZLIBw9MLXOvyFwQ excuse me, with what particular thing written by Tomasevich you disagree? I bet You never read anything he wrote. You obviously don't have a clue who he was. Tomasević was not a political emigrant, he was a scholarship holder and low level official of Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Washington and during and after the war, official in UNRRA (department of United Nations)

[@BokicaK1]

@@HistoryHustle I replied to a internet troll, now I see his comment is deleted

[@dusankvartuc6453]

We Croatians are not nazis

[@HistoryHustle]

Never said you were. Some were, others were communists. Most of them tried to survive.

[@toolow133]

Yes we are.

[@HistoryHustle]

@Kafa: staying out of the conflict in order to survive.

[@harbinger200]

@Radagast Man there are countless evidence of Catholic priests taking par tin the killings and supporting Ustasa. There motto was "Kill third, convert third, and banish third" (of Serbs). Who did you think was converting people from Orthodox to Catholic? Birds?

[@harbinger200]

@Radagast First there where none, but now there are some. Your story is not connected to reality. Im suprized by you modern Ustase, you are attempting to hide the facts in the information age. Its impossible now, your crimes will forever be displayed to the eyes of the human race. Internet will make sure of that.

[@paulwilburn9547]

When my great grandfather came to America they changed our last names spelling from Iskra to Eskra. When I went to prison in illinois I met a guy from the old country and his last name was Iskra and I just thought it was so cool. It was changed because I's were pronounced as E's in 🇭🇷, at least that's what I was told by my grandfather

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@hastalavictoriasiempre2730]

@History Hustle i dunno why you deleted comment it only had source about the events you were presenting in video, oh well i wasnt mean to be offensive in any case.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing. I didn't delete it. YT sometimes does it without any notice.

[@hastalavictoriasiempre2730]

@@HistoryHustle Ok sorry than :)

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@KnezBranimir879]

There is an interesting fact regarding the Jewish people. During 1941, the Ustaše state has nationalized the Jews' businesses, fired many of them from management positions and arrested them, sending them to prisons or concentration camps. However, many ordinary Croatian people wrote letters to the government protesting their Jewish friends and coworkers being arrested. Also, it appeared that the many Jews held important positions in industry and businesses and the after those were nationalized, the Ustaše commissioners that replaced the Jewish managers knew very little about running businesses, so the nationalized companies did really bad under the new politically set managements. So, the Ustaše government decided to free many of those Jews and their families, giving them passes and documents and allowing them and their families normal lives, given both the pressure from the people and the fact that the Croatian economy was in bad condition. Furthermore, the Ustaše government installed a so called "Honorary Aryan" status that it gave to many Jews that were either important to the economy or have previously been a part of the Croatian nationalist political groups (one of the first organized political groups of Croatian nationalists were founded by the Croatian Jews). On the other hand, this provoked a strong pressure from the Nazi Germany who did not like that at all and they kept protesting to Pavelić about it. In the end, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler came to Zagreb and insisted that the Ustaše government arrests those freed Jews and hands them over to the Germans. In the end, most of those freed Jews were sadly arrested again, put onto trains and have perished in Auschwitz or similar places.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this information with us.

[@alexandartheserb7861]

03:05 1,9 million Serbs in NDH (Croatia+Bosnia) in 1941. looks like reduced number because: even in 1991 there was 700.000 Serbs in Croatia and 1,35 million in Bosnia. But beside that hundred of thousands of Serbs were killed in NDH camps (Yugoslav estimation was 700.000), hundreds of thousands were converted into catholicism/Croats, and in 20th century about 1 million Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia were expelled into Serbia, mostly Vojvodina and Belgrade region (like parts of my family who are later in 1991 made strangers without voting right in our fathersland in Cro and Bos). So, in NDH, ortodox Serbs were majority. And today in Croatia after second extermination in 1995 (with same allays as in WWII), Serbs are less then 5% of population in Croatia. Current Serbian battle in Bosnia is to stop same scenario in Bosnia as it was in Croatia. Muslims and Croats are hoping for that to steal Serbian land and clear it from Serbs, and globalists in USA, Germany, Soros, UK, France... (NATO) supports them in that goal.

[@HistoryHustle]

I refer to my sources.

[@alexandartheserb7861]

@@HistoryHustle Ok, but can you please refer your sources publicly? How many Serbs in 1941: in Croatia, in Bosnia, how many killed in NDH by Ustaše, how many converted into catholics, how many expelled to Serbia during and after WWII?

[@Ivan.933]

You are FULL OF LIES. What Serbian land in Bosnia or Croatia is being stolen? None of this land EVER belonged to Serbia in history!! Full stop!! Your numbers are incredibly INFLATED!! Give your head a shake!

[@dropbox-yr3tg]

Serbian concentration campfor children: - Rakovica manastir near belgrade Serbian rp camps during the 1990s: - Omarska camp - Foca - Prijedor - Kozarac - Visegrad etc. Not the Gestapo but the whole world was disgusted

[@HistoryHustle]

Whataboutism.

[@Beartracks51]

Thanks again for another great video of the second World war, an thoze countries that participated . Humans are the most dangerous an unpredictable creaturez on this Beautiful planet. That said.. their are just as many good people here aswell..Thank God. Would be nice if people would learn from the mistakes of others in our not so distant an very important ..History.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hey William, thanks for your reply again. Hope you're doing good. I think it won't get as bad as it was back then. I was in Croatia last Summer. It was a great visit.

[@Beartracks51]

@@HistoryHustle Thank you. I'm hangin in ther so far. I hope you an yourz are well an good also.

[@jlpack62]

Thank you for this video. My maternal grandmother was a first generation American born of Croatian immigrants who emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian empire around 1900. The complicated history of Croatia after my ancestors left is disturbing and shameful as I continue to learn the truth about it. The relationship of the Croats to the Muslims during this period is especially surprising to learn.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply, John!

[@fredperic]

Labus are Serbs..

[@lillic4712]

But his documentary is not the truth, don't forgett this! Let tell you, if you can, the realy history from your grandparents or other older people, belive me it is an other Story.

[@hakaka912]

Plese a separate Video about the 2 ss divisions from the croats

[@HistoryHustle]

One day. I did cover the Croatian Legion already. The Bosnian SS formations will be covered in the future.

[@hakaka912]

@@NemanjaBGD83 no the one in Stalingrad Was wehrmacht there was the 13 and the 23 ss

[@hakaka912]

@@NemanjaBGD83 sorry i m german

[@hakaka912]

@@NemanjaBGD83 yes but no i m not a nazi or shit like that i m just interested in such things

[@marcoskehl]

11:08 Would be nice if you make a video about this last battle in Europe. Dank je! Obrigado! 🇧🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi Marcos, if I ever get there on location I for sure will make that episode!

[@avnrulz8587]

Does this also fall under 'short lived states'?

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes, also integrated this video in the playlist of Short-lived States!

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

Ooooh ! What a delight ! Stefan covers the litany of such gruesome and unimaginable horrors ( committed by Pavelics Ustasha ) under the auspices of the NDH,..that gore-splattered SS members reared back in revulsion. Apart from that, the Nazis fairly quickly saw that their impulsive sponsorship of Pavelics raving maniacs was drawing an unwanted tractor-beam of Axis troops to try to ‘ control ‘ the utter maelstrom when they were very badly needed virtually everywhere else.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. I hope to visit the former Jasenovac camp in the future.

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

@@HistoryHustle That would be an incredible trip, Stefan ! And we shall have to buckle ourselves in tight to ride through the storm of NDH/Ustashi vitriol !!!

[@harbinger200]

@Kafa kafica Right! I personally heard story of young girls seeing that they will be butchered in the most grooseme ways made a circle with hands and went in to the river to drown. My friends grandparents personally watched as Ustasa slit throats of there family in front of them.

[@micksaitlik2693]

@@HistoryHustle Winners can say wat they want.. 600.000 plus .c mon..sad wat happened .but seriously.

[@vincenzo8934]

chetnik crimes in ww2: "" On February 5th of the year Cetnici attacked the Bukovica municipality ... and burned around 500 men, women and children. […] Girls were found who had impaled a man after they had been rpd […] In the village of Strazice, the body of Hajji Tahirovic was found, the man who had pulled the skin from the hollows of his knees over his back and head onto his chest. "