Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945

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437 index abortion: hospital committees and, 145–46; law against, 145–46; Ministry of Health and claimed success against and, 145–47; propaganda campaign against, 147–50; Serb and Jewish doctors involved in, 148. See also Ivan Topljak; Mara Švel-Gamiršek; Đuro Šnajder anti-Serb stereotypes. See anti-Semitism; cities; swearing anti-Semitism: anti-Semitic exhibition, 309–10; cities, cosmopolitanism, and, 205–6; cosmetics and, 305; exploitation of Croatian workers as justification for, 193–96; importance in ideology of Ustasha movement, 6; in literature and poetry, 103, 288; workers’ journals and, 189–90 on workers’ radio programs, 219–20. See also Jews; radical-right students; Oak Tree, The; Ustasha Youth Aryanism: Aryan workers, 312; “Honorary Aryans,” 14–15, 25; Jewish exploitation of Aryan employees, 195; “race membership” and racial laws, 14; racial-political commissariat , 14. See also anti-Semitism Babić, Franjo, The New Generation, 112–13. See also Ustasha Youth Babić, Ivo: Sparta and militarization of youth, 114; Sparta and the warrior society, 130 Babić, Ljubo, 20 June 1928, 273 Babić, Mijo: archive of the Ustasha Movement and, 339; as battalion leader of Ustasha Defence, 313–14; as Ustasha martyr, 322; death and funeral of, 313–14, 319–20; poems written in honor of, 103, 105; threats against Serbs in Ustaša, 297 Balaković, Đuro, 96, 255 Balentović, Ivo, 101,132, 135, 138, 183, 185, 276, 324 Bäumler, Alfred, 357 begging, 303, 306 Bilenchi, Romano, 353–54 Black Legion, 10, 27, 94–95, 100–1, 134, 166, 319; cult of death and, 339; ethnic cleansing of Serbs and, 311; as a family unit, 138; The Guard on the Drina and, 210; Josip Križanac and, 341; masculinity and, 140; mass murder of Serbs and, 324–26; poetry and, 105, 341; Slavin Cindrić, August Pogačnik, and, 230; youth and; 131–32. See also Francetić, Jure; new Ustasha man Blaškov, Vjekoslav, 195, 202; anti-Semitism and, 312 Blažanov, Jozo, Under a Foreign Roof, 288–89 Blažek, Josip, 48; as adjutant for student socioeconomic welfare in the USS, 53–54 Blažeković, Zdenko, 54, 74, 105; boasts of committing atrocities, 51; commander of the USS, 29–30, 43–5, 61–63; commander of the Ustasha Youth, 90, 100–1; 105; as commissioner of DVTOŠ, 232–33; as radical student activist, 35 Bogdan, Ivo, 130, 180; as cultural hardliner, 181; editor of Spremnost, 251; head of the Main Directorate for propaganda, 251; member of the censorship committee of the State Secretariat for Propaganda, 251 Bonifačić, Ante, 155, 236, 238, 241, 246, 248 book burning 96, 255. See also censorship 438 Index Boroje, Jure, 97 Bottai, Giuseppe, 353, 358 Božin, Marijan, 208–9 Brajković, Zdravko, 285; arrested as part of Plug group, 346; as contributor, editor of Plug, 60, 74; literary experimentalism, 244; views on Ivo Kozarčanin, 244; views on Tin Ujević, 75–76 Bresler, Kamilo, 145 Brušane, 156, 298 Budak, Mile, 151, 184, 239, 256, 337; discusses plans for genocide of Serbs, 16; Lika region and, 129–30; as Minister of Education, 42–45, 87, 358, 260, 264; Ognjište and, 237; peasant novels of, 129–60; public threats against Serbs, 15–16 Bulić, Ivo, 198 Bureau for Nationalised Property (Ured za podržavljeni imetak), 193–94. See also State Directorate for Regeneration Bzik, Mijo, 20, 304, 306, 311, 328; Croatian Information Service and, 250; death cults and, 332; Main Directorate for Propaganda and, 251–52; new Ustasha man and, 130, 132, 138; workers and, 191–92; working-class Ustasha faction and, 191; Ustasha greeting and, 258 campaign against bachelors among Ustasha ideologues, 137; propaganda exercises, 137; under Italian fascism, 355. See also Topljak, Ivan; football Carlo, Mario, 355 Catholic Church, 14, 295, 360; and conversion of Serbs to Catholicism, 21–22. See also Catholicism Catholicism: Catholic rituals and the sacralization of politics, 297–308; Catholic writers and, 151, 153, 161, 167, 242, 295, 385; Croatian identity and, 4; Crusader organization and, 86, 106, 327, 342–43; cult of martyrdom and, 312–22; new morality and, 301–8; Ustasha ideology as a political religion and, 299–301; “village Catholicism ,” 296. See also cult of death; Day of the Croatian Martyr; Day of the Dead; nudity; swearing censorship, 11, 96, 249–52, 254–55. See also Main Directorate for Propaganda; State Investigative and Propaganda Office Cerovac, Drago, 201 Čerovski, Božidar, 10, 338 Cesarić, Dobriša, 236, 238 Cindrić, Slavin, 134, 230–31 Cipra, Franjo, 262, 265 cities: curfews in, 11–12; immoral behavior in...