Ante Pavelić (14 July 1889 - 28 December 1959) was the Poglavnik and founding member of the Croatian national socialist/fascist Ustaše movement in 1929 and later the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany during World War II. His brutal regime was responsible for the murder of more than 200,000 Serbs, 31,000 Jews, and 26,000 Roma. At the end of the war, Pavelić escaped abroad, residing in Argentina from 1948 until 1957, when he was wounded by an assassin's bullet. He died of lingering complications from that wound in Madrid, Spain in 1959.