USTAŠKA NEZAVISNA DRŽAVA HRVATSKA U DRUGOJ POLOVICI 1943. GOD. (S KRATKIM OSVRTOM NA PITANJE BIH)
INDEPENDANT USTASHA STATE OF CROATIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1943. (WITH A SHORT REVIEW ON THE QUESTION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

Summary/Abstract: The specificity of the NDH policy manifisted itself primarily in constant endeavours of the Ustasha Movement to prove that NDH (The Inndepedent State of Croatia) represented the definite realization of the desires of the Croatian people to have their own independent state. Due to this fact, it was one of the chief tasks of peoples’ Liberating Movement in Yugoslavia in general, and in Bosnia in Herzegovina in particu’ar, to destroy this tendency. While — on the one hand — the programme of the Ustasha Movement expressed the Grand-Croatian territorial pretensions to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ustashas paid thoir coming to power by open treason, i. e, by the surrender of the Adriatic Cnast to Italy, on the other. Only after the capitulation of Italy, the ruling circles ttf NDIT started to reconsider their earlier relationships with Italy, trying to regain their lost positions by claiming the Adriatic Coast. By reason of this very fact, Bosnia and Herzegovina escaped the unstable influence of the Ustasha leadership. Nevertheless, the chief reason for this was the strengthening of the peoples’ liberating movement in these provinces, which especially manifested itself in the First Session of ZAVNOBiH defining the position of these provinces in the future Yugoslav community.

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