TUĐMANOVA OCJENA REPRESIVNOSTI USTAŠKOG POKRETA
TUĐMAN’S INTERPRETATION OF THE REPRESSIVENESS OF THE USTASHA MOVEMENT

Author(s): Davor Kovačić
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Franjo Tuđman; Ustasha movement; Independent State of Croatia;
Summary/Abstract: As a historian who analyzed the history of World War II, Franjo Tuđman paid considerable attention to the subject of the Independent State of Croatia in his scientific research. He studied the Ustasha movement as well in this context and made considerable breakthroughs in the analysis and research thereof. Tuđman felt that mindless violence toward the population of the warring countries, and in particular violence toward entire nations with pronouncedly genocide objectives and consequences, had taken on the most ruthless proportions in the entire human history in the period of World War II when the amount of suffering and the ways in which this violence was meted out are taken into consideration. Tuđman felt this to be an indisputable fact, but he also felt that there could be no serious argument that these crimes, in all their horror, were a new phenomenon in the historical sequence of events or in the development of the human species by any of their characteristics, and particularly not by their consequences.

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