Croatian Home Guard (World War II)
The Croatian Home Guard was the land army part of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia which existed during World War II.
Uniforms of Croatian Home Guard. From left to right: Army proper, Navy, Air Force.
Croatian Home Guard memorial in Mirogoj cemetery
Memorial unveiled in Trsat in 2003
Image: Marshal Slavko Kvaternik
Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers. Its territory consisted of most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as some parts of modern-day Serbia and Slovenia, but also excluded many Croat-populated areas in Dalmatia, Istria, and Međimurje regions.
Diplomatic passport issued in 1941 to Ante Šoša, employee of NDH's consulte in Vienna
Message calling on Jews and Serbs to surrender their weapons at the risk of being severely condemned
An antisemitic poster in Zagreb, advertising an exhibition about the "destructive work of the Jews in Croatia" and the "solution to the Jewish question in the NDH."
Poglavnik Ante Pavelic (left) with Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini (right) in Rome, Italy on 18 May 1941, during the ceremony of Italy's recognition of Croatia as a sovereign state under official Italian protection, and to agree upon Croatia's borders with Italy