“The ideology of nation and race: The Croatian Ustasha Regime and its Policies toward Minorities in Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945,” (Croatian Studies Review, Vol. 5, 2008); is doctoral thesis of Nevenko Bartulin (University of New South Wales, Australia, 2007) which fills the gap described by author as such: “The way the Ustashe ‘imagined’ the Croatian nation has received little attention from historians. This is because the historiography has always centered on the attempt to establish an independent state, which is represented by historians as the main Ustasha aim.”

Author examines in deep Ustashe race theories, regime’s attempt to redefine Croatian nation and articulate an ideal Nordic-Dinaric racial type. “Ustashe had ‘racialized’ their notion of Croatian nationhood, and this had a great bearing on the identification of the majority of Serbs, the great majority of Jews and the overwhelming majority of Gypsies as racially inassimilable minorities, deemed ‘anti-social’, or to use a Nazi term, Gemeinschaftsunfähig (“incapable of creating or sustaining a community”) - reads one of Bartulin’s conclusions. Dr. Nevenko Bartulin is a lecturer in 20th century European and World History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Split, Croatia.