The Fascist Croatian Regime called the Ustasha began the mass deportation of Roma, Serbs and Jews to the Jasenovac Concentration Camp - 83,145 victims can be identified by name.
Odak and Bencic, "Jasenovac- A Past that Does not Pass: The Presence of Jasenovac in Croatian and Serbian Collective Memory of Conflict." East European Politics and Societies 30, no. 4 (2016) p.808. The Jasenovac Genocide has been distorted and negotiated and its memory tarnished as the Croatian government erected a plaque with the Ustasha slogan "Za dom Spremni" meaning "homeland ready" at the sight of the Jasenovac camp. https://www.timesofisrael.com/croatias-serbian-jewish-groups-to-snub-wwii-death-camp-memorial/
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