ABSTRACT
Nobody can say precisely how many Serbs, Jews and Gypsies died during the short but bloody existence of the Independent State of Croatia. The Institut für Zeitgeschichte has recently made a very thorough investigation and concluded that the number of Jews who died under Croatian rule between 1941 and 1945 must have been just over 30,000:20,000 to 25,000 in the Ustasha death camps and another 7,000 deported from Croatian territory to the gas chambers.1 In a paper given in early 1992, Damir Mirkovic reckoned that in addition to the Jews there were roughly 27,000 Gypsy and 487,000 Serb victims of Ante Pavelic’s regime.2
