Redarstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske uvodi red na zagrebačkim ulicama 1941. godine
The Security Forces of the Independent State of Croatia Bring Order to the Streets of Zagreb in 1941.

Summary/Abstract: Zagreb was the political-administrative centre of the Independent State of Croatia during its four years of existence. Immediately following the establishment of the new state security measures were introduced to bring order to the city and increase the sense of security of its inhabitants. Due to wartime conditions the Zagreb police introduced decrees concerning curfews and blackouts which were enforced by sanctions against transgressors. At first, transgressors were fined, later they were incarcerated and taken away to do forced labour. Likewise, security measures were used to ‘beautify’ the capital city of the Independent State of Croatia by removing beggars, vagrants, prostitutes, the jobless and all those who were perceived to pose a constant threat to private property. Due to an influx of population and a growth in the amount of urban traffic the police attempted to bring order to this aspect of urban life also. Such efforts by the authorities can not be treated as government violence, or police terror, particularly not as aggression directed toward opponents of the regime. The government of the Independent State of Croatia carried out terror against its own citizens on the basis of racial origins, but also against those who dared to question the laws, regulations and policies of the Ustaša regime.

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