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"My dissertation analyzes the ideological and practical functions of property expropriation in the fascist Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska: NDH) during World War II. In using a wide range of archival sources, I show that the NDH’s Ustaša leadership attempted to use minority dispossession to communicate new ideas about racial and national belonging to the populace after coming to power. While examining the centrality of expropriation in Ustaša plans to create a ‚national economy‘, this project also explores the complications which arose during the implementation of property seizure state-wide. In doing so, it contributes to historical literature on the Holocaust, World War II, and beyond, situating the NDH and its violence within broader trends of nation-state consolidation during the twentieth century."
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