Forming in 1929 after the assassination of popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radic in Belgrade's parliament, the Ustase managed to outlive practically every other right-wing extremist movement in history. From the Independent State of Croatia to the Ratline to the renewed campaign of terror in the 1970s, this timeline offers a brief overview of the Ustase's seventy-plus year history. more...

How it happened: from April 1941 to May 1945, the Ustase murdered between 300,000 and 600,000 human beings. This timeline lists key events in the war and the Independent State of Croatia as well as some of the most appalling atrocities resulting in the destruction of Croatia's Jewish and Roma communities and the massacre of an estimated third of its much larger Serbian population. more...