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Repressive - assimilationist policy towards the Roma population in Croatia during World War II

The Roma population settled in Croatia in the second half of the 14th Century, which makes them one of the oldest minority communities in this area. From that time, they have often been subjected to state and local-level policies of assimilation and persecution, which they attempted to resist by protecting their way of life, customs and language. This antiziganist process took place during World War II in many European countries, especially Nazi Germany and Ustasha Croatia. In this paper it is analaysed a certain antiziganist model which was constructed in both countries and encompassed several levels, with the goal of exterminating Roma. Thus the Croatian antiziganist model began with a census of Roma in July 1941, and finished with the deportation and killing of Roma in the Jasenovac concentration camp. The consequence of this Ustasha model was the near complete demographic destruction of the Roma population in Croatia.

Roma, World War II, Independent State of Croatia, antiziganist model

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