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Based on the primary documentary sources of the Croatian State Archives (CSA), the Fonds of the Foreign Ministry of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) and the Croatian Information Bureau "Croatia", as well as information found in daily and periodical newspapers printed from late 1944 to May 1945, the author analyzes the content of the ISC press regarding foreign and domestic politics and war issues. Comparing political orders and dictations to newspaper editors with a large number of articles and the actual situation at the European battlefronts of that time, the author concludes that Ustasha propaganda, supported by the Third Reich, significantly influenced the formation of public opinion in the ISC at the end of World War II. From the sources available, it is now obvious that the majority of the ISC population was fully aware that the Third Reich, as well as its satellite states, had lost the war but the atmosphere which was deliberately created by the Ustasha authorities in the ISC caused a mass exodus in early May 1945 nevertheless.
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Na temelju izvome grade fondova Ministarstva vanjski poslova Nezavisne Drzave FFrvatske (NDFF) i FFrvatskog dojavnog ureda "Croatia" kao i novinske grade dnevnih i periodicnih izdanja s kraja 1944 i prvih pet mjeseci 1945., autor analizira sadrzaj vanjskopolitickih, unutrasnjopolitickih i ratnih tema u tisku NDH. Povezujuci naputke ustaskih vlasti s vecim brojem clanaka u novinama i stvamu situaciju na brojnim europski bojistima, autor zakljucuje kako je ustaska promidzba, potpomognuta njemackom imala znacajan utjecaj na formiranje javnog mnijenja u NDH na kraju Drugog svjetskog rata. Iz autoru dostupne grade razvidno je da je vecini gradana NDH bilo jasno kako je Treci Reich, a onda i njeni sateliti, izgubio rat, no flagrantno stvarana atmosfera straha od komunisticke odmazde doprinijela je masovnom egzodusu hrvatskih gradana u svibnju 1945.
Abbreviations used:
AVNOJ - Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia
DFJ - the Democratic Federation of Yugoslavia
DIPU - State Investigative and Propaganda Bureau
EAM - Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (National
Liberation Front of Greece)
GRP - Head Office for Propaganda
CIB "Croatia" - Croatian Information Bureau "Croatia"
HG - Hrvatska gruda
HL - Hrvatski list
HN - Hrvatski narod
KPJ - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
NH - Nova Hrvatska
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