Leader  and founder of Ustasha movement was  Ante Pavelic was born on 14th July 1889 in Bradina village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His family, moving between the places for a job search, settled in Jezero village near Jajce (B&H) for some time where he attended Muslim primary school. He has also attended Jesuit school in Travnik where he became an active supporter of Ante Starcevic’s ideology and for a brief period of time he led Starcevic’s Croatian Party of Rights some years after his death. Despite Croatian territory being autonomous within Yugoslavian Kingdom, and Catholic religion being tolerated, but not a leading one, Party of Rights led by Pavelic in 1928 has publicly expressed the wish for independence, refusing any federal perspective and insisting on resorting to violence in order to gain independence. Shaken by the very strong ethnic tensions within, King Alexandar is suspending all opposing parties in 1929. Leader of Croatian Peasant Party, Vlatko Macek was arrested, while Ante Pavelic manages to escape to Italy. Under protection of Mussolini, Pavelic is founding a new political movement called “Ustashe” (Serbian -ustati, dici se, eng – to rise up). Ustasha is taking ideology of Antun Starcevic’s life long fight to have a Croatia independent and to be cleansed off all non Croatian nationalities, especially Serbs and Jews. This political aim was only possible by terrorism and warfare in the name of spiritual matrix – middle age fanatic Catholicism found in the Merc’s Catholic Action – Eagles/Crusaders. Ustasha movement became popular and spred quickly in the places where Croats ex pat resided. In Italy and Hungary a military camps were formed to train Pavelic’s Ustasha. Vienna and Berlin became one of the first centres for Ustasha propaganda.

Pavelic’s “In the name of God” war is characterised as extreme Catholicism which was clearly distinctive from German nationalism and Italian fascism.  The extreme religious tenet he found in Merc’s Golden Book (Zlatna Knjiga) – a guidebook Merc wrote for Eagles/Crusaders.

Leader  and founder of Ustasha movement was  Ante Pavelic (1889-1959), born on 14th July 1889 in Bradina village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His family, moving between the places for a job search, settled in Jezero village near Jajce (B&H) for some time where he attended Muslim primary school. He has also attended Jesuit school in Travnik where he became an active supporter of Ante Starcevic’s ideology and for a brief period of time he led Starcevic’s Croatian Party of Rights some years after his death. Despite Croatian territory being autonomous within Yugoslavian Kingdom, and Catholic religion being tolerated, but not a leading one, Party of Rights led by Pavelic in 1928 has publicly expressed the wish for independence, refusing any federal perspective and insisting on resorting to violence in order to gain independence. Shaken by the very strong ethnic tensions within, King Alexandar is suspending all opposing parties in 1929. Leader of Croatian Peasant Party, Vlatko Macek was arrested, while Ante Pavelic manages to escape to Italy. Under protection of Mussolini, Pavelic is founding a new political movement called “Ustashe” (Serbian -ustati, dici se, eng – to rise up). Ustasha is taking ideology of Antun Starcevic’s life long fight to have a Croatia independent and to be cleansed off all non Croatian nationalities, especially Serbs and Jews. This political aim was only possible by terrorism and warfare in the name of spiritual matrix – middle age fanatic Catholicism found in the Merc’s Catholic Action – Eagles/Crusaders. Ustasha movement became popular and spred quickly in the places where Croats ex pat resided. In Italy and Hungary a military camps were formed to train Pavelic’s Ustasha. Vienna and Berlin became one of the first centres for Ustasha propaganda.

Pavelic’s “In the name of God” war is characterised as extreme Catholicism which was clearly distinctive from German nationalism and Italian fascism.  The extreme religious tenet he found in Merc’s Golden Book (Zlatna Knjiga) – a guidebook Merc wrote for Eagles/Crusaders.

Leader  and founder of Ustasha movement was  Ante Pavelic (1889-1959), born on 14th July 1889 in Bradina village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His family, moving between the places for a job search, settled in Jezero village near Jajce (B&H) for some time where he attended Muslim primary school. He has also attended Jesuit school in Travnik where he became an active supporter of Ante Starcevic’s ideology and for a brief period of time he led Starcevic’s Croatian Party of Rights some years after his death. Despite Croatian territory being autonomous within Yugoslavian Kingdom, and Catholic religion being tolerated, but not a leading one, Party of Rights led by Pavelic in 1928 has publicly expressed the wish for independence, refusing any federal perspective and insisting on resorting to violence in order to gain independence. Shaken by the very strong ethnic tensions within, King Alexandar is suspending all opposing parties in 1929. Leader of Croatian Peasant Party, Vlatko Macek was arrested, while Ante Pavelic manages to escape to Italy. Under protection of Mussolini, Pavelic is founding a new political movement called “Ustashe” (Serbian -ustati, dici se, eng – to rise up). Ustasha is taking ideology of Antun Starcevic’s life long fight to have a Croatia independent and to be cleansed off all non Croatian nationalities, especially Serbs and Jews. This political aim was only possible by terrorism and warfare in the name of spiritual matrix – middle age fanatic Catholicism found in the Merc’s Catholic Action – Eagles/Crusaders. Ustasha movement became popular and spread quickly in the places where Croats ex pat resided. In Italy and Hungary a military camps were formed to train Pavelic’s Ustasha. Vienna and Berlin became one of the first centers for Ustasha propaganda.

One of the biggest early achievements by the Ustasha movement was the assassination of Prince Alexander in Marseilles on 9th October 1934.

Pavelic’s “In the name of God” war is characterized as extreme Catholicism which was clearly distinctive from German nationalism and Italian fascism.  The extreme religious tenet he found in Merc’s Golden Book (Zlatna Knjiga) – a guidebook Merc wrote for Eagles/Crusaders.