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Ustaše in Australia
Croatian ultranationalist movement in Australia
At the end of World War II in 1945, members of the fascistCroatianultranationalist and genocidalUstaše regime from the collapsed Nazipuppet state of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) fled from the Balkan region to avoid imprisonment and execution at the hands of the Yugoslav Partisans. With the help of Western authorities, who now viewed the fiercely anti-communist stance of the Ustaše favourably in the emerging Cold War, thousands of members of the regime were allowed to migrate to other countries, including Australia.[8][page needed]
Despite the post-war Menzies government having the knowledge that the Ustaše were responsible for carrying out genocide against Serbs, Jews and Romani, as well as murdering anti-fascist Croats, they were allowed to obtain citizenship and establish themselves during the 1950s and 60s to fund and organise various terrorist activities within Australia
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Fascism in Croatia
Croatian history is complicated. The Croats were Slavs from the area of modern Poland who settled in the Balkans, in the Byzantine Empire, at some date in the sixth century or later. They were converted to Christianity, but unlike their Eastern Orthodox neighbours, the Serbs, the Croats were Roman Catholics. There was a Croatian kingdom in the 10th century, which was later dominated by Hungary. In the 16th and 17th centuries much of Croatia was part of the Ottoman Empire, which was Muslim, and areas of Croatia were later part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles set up an independent state which included Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was dominated by the Serbs, who in 1929 named it Yugoslavia. By this time Croatian nationalism had become a significant force and a Croat called Ante Pavelic moved to Fascist Italy, where he founded a nationalist organisation called the Ustasha-Croatian Revolutionary&n
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