Ante Pavelić

Croatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)

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Lived 1889–1959, aged 70

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1889–1959
Aged 70

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Updated 2026-05-29

Croatian fascist leader who founded the Ustaše in 1929 and ruled the Nazi puppet state of Croatia from 1941 to 1945. His regime became a key site of WWII genocide targeting Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

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Ante Pavelić was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945. Pavelić and the Ustaše persecuted many racial minorities and political opponents in the NDH during the war, including Serbs, Jews, Romani, and Yugoslav Partisans, becoming one of the key figures of the genocide of Serbs, the Porajmos and the Holocaust in the NDH.

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