Antifascism in Croatia

Nakon stupanja fašizma na vlast u Italiji i nacizma u Njemačkoj, u Europi se kasnih tridesetih godina počinje osjećati ratna atmosfera i povećanje nemira te sve veći broj oružanih sukoba. Fašizam se na prostoru današnje Hrvatske najprije pojavio u Istri, s kojim su se dešavali i više-manje spontani oblici otpora. Kada je 1941. njemački okupator došao u zemlju i proglašena je NDH, koja je u stvarnosti bila marioneta Hitlerovoj nacističkoj politici, došlo je do organiziranja otpora i antifašizam je počeo jačati u svim oblicima. Antifašistička borba tijekom rata, kako u svijetu tako i u Hrvatskoj, nastala je kao najbolji mogući odgovor na grub i nasilan režim nacifašizma koji je zahvatio gotovo cijelu Europu. Za potrebe pisanja ovog rada korištena je stručna literatura koja se bavi zadanom tematikom te internet i novinski članci.The arrival of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany brought forth a new state of mind in Europe in the late 1930s. The atmosphere was one of war and growing unrest followed by an increased number of armed conflicts. In today’s Croatia, it was in Istria that Fascism first laid its roots, despite the existence of occasional and spontaneous forms of resistance. When the German occupant came to Croatia in 1941 and NDH was established (in reality just a marionette for Hitler’s Nazi policy), serious forms of resistance and antifascism started taking shape. This antifascism fight during the war, as for Croatia but also for the entire world, represented the best and only answer and form of retaliation towards such a cruel, violent and unjust regime that was at the heart of Nazi-Fascism, which managed to poison the majority, if not the entirety of the world. Academic literature and articles, along with Internet sources related to the topic were all used for the purpose of writing this thesi