Tisak NDH o svjetskim ratnim zbivanjima
The reporting of world events by the news media of the Independent State of Croatia during the war, 1941-1945

Summary/Abstract: Publications which appeared at the time of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska - NDH) attempted to follow German and Italian examples and were a reflection of the regime which controlled them. News from the battlefields and about international diplomatic issues was filtered on various levels, and every piece of information was published with a particular aim, in order to shape the views of the readership as desired. The sources for Ustasa print media were German, Italian and Japanese reporting agencies, but often they printed selected articles from American, British and Soviet publications. Sources from the publications of neutral countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Turkey were also sometimes used, especially by the Zagreb weekly Spremnost (Readiness) under its column “Echoes from around the World,” which ostensibly introduced a more liberal spirit into the media concepts of the NDH. Independence in the manner of interpreting international political events and the progress of the war did not exist. It consisted almost entirely of socalled overviews of the various battlefields, which were only rarely written by domestic military experts, and editorials in which general evaluations of the military situation were provided by the editor in chief of the newspaper. The Ustasa press had one clear objective, extol past, present and future military successes of Germany, Italy and Japan and justify them in the context of the great worldwide conspiracy.Yet even in such a tightly controlled newsmedia system as this one controlled by the Ustasa, and which for the most part remained consistent in following a manner of reporting from the spring of 1941 to the spring of 1945, some changes occurred. A shift is apparent from the end of Operation Overlord and the Soviet liberation of Eastern Europe in mid 1944, when the reports from the battlefields increasingly took on the form of statistical and military-operational information.

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