Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47960/2712-1844.2020.6.323
"Foreign Ustashe - with fezzes on the heads"A problematic thesis on violence in the East Herzegovina during 1941
Ivica Šarac
orcid.org/0000-0001-6932-4263
; Sveučilište u Mostaru, Filozofski fakultet
Abstract
The article seeks to test a thesis - that was set during the Second World War and gradually grew into an unquestionable fact in a part of historiographical literature - "foreign Ustashe", primarily those from the western parts of Herzegovina, were the most responsible for crimes committed over Serbian-Orthodox community in the East Herzegovina during 1941. The article is composed of two parts: analytical elaboration in the first part and appendices containing extracts from documents of the District Court in Mostar.
Keywords
East Herzegovina; violence; civil victims; ethnic cleansing; Ustashe; gendarmes; Domobrani; Muslim militia.
Hrčak ID:
243858
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2020.
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