Honorary Aryans

From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and how the "Croats of the Mosaic faith" were eventually rejected as racial aliens.

Autorentext

Nevenko Bartulin has lectured in twentieth century European and World History at the University of Split, Croatia. His main research interests are nationalism, nation-building, racial theories, and National Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Croatian Ustasha regime and the Independent State of Croatia.

Inhalt

1. Nationalism, race theory and anti-Semitism in Croatia 1782-1918 2. Yugoslavism, Jews and the Ustasha movement 1918-1941 3. Jews and Honorary Aryans in the Ustasha racial state