NDH

On 20 June 1928, Puniša Račić, a representative of the People's Radical Party in the parliament in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovene, assassinated the representatives of the...

In 1938, Nazi Germany annexes Austria and occupies Czechoslovakia. After 1 September 1939 and the invasion of Poland, creation of an empire becomes part of the war aim. This New Eu...

On 25 March 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Tripartite Pact. Two days later, protests break out in Belgrade, and the military command executes a coup d’etat. Adolf Hitler...

In April 1941, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party Vladko Maček refused Germany’s offer to proclaim a Croatian puppet state. However, the offer was accepted by the Ustashe. On...

Little over a month after the creation of the NDH, the new state suffers a significant blow when negotiating the first international agreement. The Treaties of Rome effectively ced...

The newly formed state was divided into an Italian and a German interest zone. Hungary also annexed the territories of Međimurje and Baranja. The NDH ceded the majority of the Adri...

After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a few hundred ustashas, who were gathered and armed by the Italian government, came to this new state. They formed...

In the NDH, the Ustashe movement had all the power, determining what the state was going to be like in terms of economics and culture. Modeling itself after Nazi Germany, the econo...

The first government of the NDH swore its oath on 16 April 1941 in the present of Vilim Cecelia, a Roman Catholic parish priest, Ismet Muftić, the mufti of Zagreb, and Michael Back...

The Ustashe conceived the NDH as a state exclusively for the Croatian people. The only minority that was in good standing in the NDH were the Germans, while Muslims were considered...

During the summer of 1932, the Ustashe began their terrorist acts, which included civilian victims. In 1934, along with the Macedonian revolution organization VMRO they organized t...

Despite the German surrender on 9 May 1945, the Ustashe regime had no intention to surrender. It continued its fight against the Yugoslav Army, the armed force of Democratic Federa...