Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans

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Focusing on visual representations of genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), the book examines the origins and history of the relevant atrocity images, and charts their post-war fate. Drawing on extensive research in national and regional archives and museums in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, Jovan Byford scrutinizes the institutional dynamic behind the collection and preservation of atrocity photographs, and explores their contextualization, narrative framing and audiencing in the press, museum exhibitions, books, films, in war crimes trials and other settings, between 1945 and the present. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Map Chapter 1: Introduction: Picturing genocide Chapter 2: Evidencing ‘unprecedented acts of savagery’: Atrocity photographs in occupied Yugoslavia Chapter 3: ‘Gather photographs!’: The birth of the post-war visual memory of Ustasha violence Chapter 4: Why look at fascism?: Visual propaganda and revolutionary justice in post-war Yugoslavia Chapter 5: Ustasha violence through the prism of ‘brotherhood and unity: ’The dilemmas of visual memory in socialist Yugoslavia Chapter 6: ‘The dead open the eyes of the living: ’Atrocity images after Tito Chapter 7: Mobilizing images: Visual memory of the Ustasha genocide during and after the Yugoslav conflict of the 1990s Chapter 8: Conclusion: Atrocity photographs beyond idolatry and oblivion Notes Bibliography Index