WWII Croatia NDH year 1941 Porto stamps set

WWII Croatia NDH year 1941 Porto stamps set

During World War II, the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska or NDH) was a Nazi-German puppet state that existed between 1941 and 1945. This state issued its own postage stamps during that period. Some key details about NDH stamps from WWII:

• The first NDH stamps were overprinted Yugoslav kingdom stamps issued in 1941 with the inscription “Nezavisna Država Hrvatska”.
• New definitive stamp sets were issued by the NDH in 1942 and 1943 depicting Croatian national symbols, figures from history, landscapes and buildings.
• Several semi-postal and airmail stamps were also released during 1941-1945 to raise funds and pay airmail surcharges.
• Many of the NDH stamps contained symbols associated with the Ustasha fascist movement that controlled the state, such as the letter “U” or the Croatian checkerboard coat of arms.
• The year dates were printed in the Croatian language on most stamps during 1941-1944 before being overprinted in 1945 as the NDH collapsed.
• After 1945, the stamps of the socialist Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia were used in Croatia when it became part of the new Yugoslav state.

So in summary, WWII era Croatian NDH stamps from 1941-1945 bore year dates in the Croatian language along with Ustasha symbols and imagery promoting the Nazi-puppet regime’s ideology during those years of occupation and genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma people.