The Croatian Home Guard was the land army part of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet entity that occupied the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia which existed during Wo
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
Marshal Slavko Kvaternik
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The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II–era quasi-state. It was a protectorate of Fascist Italy from 1941 to 1943, and a puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. It was established
Croatian Home Guard (World War II)
…The Croatian Home Guard (Croatian: Hrvatsko domobranstvo) was the land army part of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet entity that occupied the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia which existed during World War II. The Croatian Home Guard was founded in…
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
Adolf Hitler (left) with Ante Pavelić (right) at the Berghof, outside the Berchtesgaden, Germany