An online store has been openly selling key rings, T-shirts, beanies and stickers themed on the murderous Ustasha regime of World War II, as well as prints of wartime Croatian dictator, Ante Pavelic, a close ally of Adolf Hitler.
has uncovered how mainstream the celebration of the Ustasha regime that slaughtered Serbs, Jews and Romani people between 1941 and 1945 is in key institutions of the Australian-Croatian community.The Sydney-based website, which this investigation has chosen not to name, promotes itself and its sale of Ustasha-themed memorabilia through paid advertisements on social media and at stalls at Croatian community functions. It offers free shipping on orders over $100 worldwide.
Soon after Hecimovic was contacted by this masthead, most of the Ustasha-themed memorabilia was removed from the website. She did not respond to requests for comment. Representatives of the Jewish community in Australia want authorities to have more ability to crackdown on Nazi-linked symbols, including Ustasha ones.There are different laws across Australia. In New South Wales, the laws are the broadest, allowing discretion to courts to define what a Nazi symbol is. Laws in Victoria, and ones to be introduced to federal parliament this week, are narrower, proscribing a limited number of Nazi hate symbols.
The Croatian role in the Holocaust is minimised, he says, with focus placed on nationalism and the creation of the independent Croatian state. “I suspect that for many Croats who emigrated to Australia – or Canada, the US or Western Europe between the 1950s and 1970s – time basically stood still from the day they left the former Yugoslavia,” he said.“Even if they were primarily economic migrants, many of them harboured resentments for their circumstances, blaming Yugoslavia, or communism, or Serbs.
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