Educational and Cultural Activities of the German National Group in NDH

The author brings some important moments in politico-propaganda activity of the German national group on the territory of the quisling "Independent State of Croatia" (NDH) 1941-1944, which moments refer to the field of education and culture. German national group, counting about 180.000 of Germans in NDH, had a privileged status. The author reviews briefly the role of schooling, arts, sciences, education, printing, and propaganda in the work of the group whose leaders in that way aspirated to affirm the Germans in NDH as members of the "leading European nation". However, successful development of the National Liberation Movement in Yugoslavia with the Communist Party at the head, made this task, set by the Third Reich\u27s leader Adolf Hitler, impossible to realize