NDH

The Church

The first government of the NDH swore its oath on 16 April 1941 in the present of Vilim Cecelia, a Roman Catholic parish priest, Ismet Muftić, the mufti of Zagreb, and Michael Backer, an evangelical vicar. This speaks to the importance that the Ustashe gave to religious communities, of whom the most important was the Catholic Church. What was the attitude of the Catholic Church towards totalitarian regimes and the NDH?