Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia

Jovan Byford is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University, UK. He has published widely on Holocaust memory, conspiracy theories and the relationship between psychology and history. His recent books include Denial and Repression of Antisemitism (2008), Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (2011), and the edited volume Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations (2014).

• 1. Introduction: Picturing Genocide2. Evidencing ‘Unprecedented Savagery’: Atrocity Photographs in Occupied Yugoslavia3. ‘Gather Photographs!’: The Birth of the Visual Memory of Ustasha Violence 4. Why Look at Fascism? Visual Propaganda and Revolutionary Justice in Post-war Yugoslavia 5. Ustasha Violence through the Prism of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’: The Dilemmas of Visual Memory in Socialist Yugoslavia6. ‘The Dead Open the Eyes of the Living’: Atrocity Images after Tito7. Mobilising Images: Visual Memory of the Second World War and the Yugoslav Conflict of the 1990sConclusion: Atrocity Photographs beyond Idolatry and OblivionBibliographyIndex

This thoughtful and persuasively argued book explores images of Ustasha atrocities to shed light not only on Yugoslavia’s troubled and divided visual memory but also on the broader social and cultural history of the socialist country and its post-socialist successors. Byford’s thought-provoking and nuanced analysis of these graphic photographs and their many uses opens an unexpected window onto some of the most important moments, transitions and conflicts in Yugoslav history.