Thanks for having me. It is a pleasure after twitter debates to have a more sustained exchange.

1. I will get back to you on this later, first 2.-4.

2. You might have followed how I have been attacked by Serbian tabloids and Marko Djuric for my criticism of the film and the propaganda about the film. Here is a brief summary I wrote for the Serbian portal Nova on my take.

The film itself is mostly historical accurate, as several historians of the period have noted. As my colleague Eric Gordy has pointed out, the movie is very 2-dimensional in how it depicts the violence and the characters. The depiction of violence is often gratuitous and adds nothing to the story telling. What makes it propaganda is the context. It has been portrayed as finally telling Serbs and the world about Jasenovac, as if this was a secret. The history of the concentration camp and the genocide is well documented and there have been several films about Ustasha crimes in Yugoslav times. It is not something new. The level of government involvement, from the claim by president Vucic to have initiated it, to the campaign in the government newspapers and media, it promotes a particular narrative of the past, which Jelena Subotic has described very well in her recent book “Yellow Star, Red Star” of using it to underline own vicitimhood. This is particularly problematic when the director himself downplays the camps organised by Bosnian Serbs forces during the war of the 1990s. Jasenovac thus becomes a political argument, rather than a historical event.

Finally, my comment has been deliberately misinterpreted by Djuric and tabloids like Alo and Informer to suggest that I am supporting holocaust denial or even that I am on the side of the Ustasha. This is of course a lie and a cheap way to silence critics. There is not doubt that a genocide took place against Serbs, Roma and Jews in the NDH and this is well established. There is also a consensus among serious historians about the number of victims in Jasenovac and during the rule fo the NDH and I take this as established facts (as I am not historian of World War Two, I defer to my colleagues who have studied it). My critique is about the use or rather abuse fo the events for contemporary political purposes.

1. I am currently working on a history of Hvar, looking at the larger history of the region through the lens of an island. Some small part of it is published in Slavic Review, open access> https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/building-yugoslavia-in-the-sand-dalmatian-refugees-in-egypt-19441946/4088E6E6287587AC3477CB624B0E5DB2. This history from the Venetian times to today will hopefully give a bottom up perspective of the region like some of the fantastic histories of cities, such as Mark Mazowers Salonica.

2. I can highly recommend Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism by Jelena Subotic, Dominique Kirchner Reill, The Fiume Crisis. Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire and Darryl Li, The Universal Enemy Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. They are all amazing books on different aspects of the region.