Prilog istraživanjima propagande i kulturne politike Nezavisne Države Hrvatske u Bosni iHercegovini u Drugom svjetskom ratu
A Contribution to the Research of Propaganda and Cultural Policy of the Independent State of Croatia in the World War II Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The Ustashe regime in the Independent Croatian State (NDH) was, in many elements, the copy of German and Italian Fascist role models. The NDH propaganda was also an echo of Goebbels’ and Mussolini’s propaganda, however lacking an important trait – it was deprived of its hypnotic power. The Ustashe regime showed, from the very beginning, a particular interest in culture. The leaders of NDH were aware that the affirmation of Ustashe policies in this domain was one of the key factors of the success of the overall policy of the regime. The culture in NDH, therefore, represented the battlefield of a sort where battles were waged following those waged at the political arena. The Ustashe officials’ position was that between culture and politics there are no crucial differences and thus the propaganda campaigns that were meant to impose the Ustashe version of cultural model, were, inter alia, the results of this concept. The struggle fought with ideas, not from the position of profs acceptable because they are founded on scientific methods but rather from the position of the power granted by the fact that they were the proponents of the ruling ideological matrix.

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