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“The Last Bullet for the Last Serb”:1 The Ustaša Genocide against Serbs: 1941–19452

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michele Frucht Levy
Michele Frucht Levy*
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Department of English, North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. Email: mflevy@ncat.edu
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While participating in Hitler's Holocaust against Jews and Roma, wartime Croatia's collaborationist government, the Ustaša (Insurgent), conducted its own genocide against the Serbs within its territories. As the title of Marco Rivelli's 1978 text, Le Génocide occulté, makes clear, this phenomenon remained largely unknown in the West until the 1990s. Of the principal external actors, post-war German attention focused on the Holocaust. Italy still resists fully confronting its less than pristine role in the Balkans, so that Rivelli's work, completed in 1978, was not published in Italy until 1999. The Vatican, meanwhile, has yet to release its documents on the subject.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 807 - 837
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