Diplomacy of Independent State of Croatia – actors and processes Cover Image

Diplomacija Nezavisne Države Hrvatske – akteri i procesi
Diplomacy of Independent State of Croatia – actors and processes

Author(s): Bruno Korea Gajski
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: LIBERTAS MEĐUNARODNO SVEUČILIŠTE
Keywords: NDH; NDH diplomacy; NDH Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mladen Lorković; Treaties of Rome 1941;

Summary/Abstract: The author presents the key moments of the diplomacy of the Independent State of Croatia: from the organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 1941 to the last attempts to save the Independent State of Croatia in May 1945. The article presents all relevant events for the diplomacy of the Independent State of Croatia with a focus on the most important participant in certain diplomatic actions. The paper lists all foreign ministers who headed the ministry, their diplomatic activities and the reasons for their dismissal or resignation. The article also provides an insight into the utmost dependence of the Ustasha regime on fascist allies, Germany and Italy. processing the relationship with each of them separately. The frequent change of foreign ministers and ambassadors in the most important states for the NDH is an expression of high instability and subordination of the Ustasha regime to the occupying forces.

  • Issue Year: 20/2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 15-37
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian