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Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945)

State Flag
by Janko Ehrlich - Zdvorak, 31 August 2001

Civil Flag
by Janko Ehrlich - Zdvorak, 31 August 2001

Overview
State Flag - Variant
Coat of Arms
Air-Force Flag and Aircraft Marking
State Flag - Construction Sheet
Outlaw the Ustashi Symbols?

See also:

Overview

After the breakdown of Yugoslavia in 1941 a quisling regime proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia. The flag was again red white blue with a symbol of the leading pro nazi party Ustasa, a chequered red and white with letter U above in a wattle.
Zeljko Heimer, 14 October 1995

I read that back than Croatia technically was a kingdom under the absentee King Tomislav II, the Italian Duke of Spoleto. Did he have a royal flag?
Mark Sensen, 30 September 1999

Not that I'm avare of. He was never crowned, and technically he was not the king, but prince . He might have used some flag of his own in Italy (though it seems that he was quite reluctant to take the claim), but there was none "waiting" for him in Croatia.
Zeljko Heimer, 4 October 1999

I just took a quick glance on the ever improving pages at www.flags.net. I noticed the added WWII section. I was wandering about the sources of the Croatian WWII flags. The national flag is of no question, of course (though the offiicial ratio were both 2:3 or 2:5). Regarding the naval flag and the naval jack - there are some doubts. From the official sources (official gazettes and similar) the only naval flag ever adopted is from 1941, equal to the design as shown as naval jack (though with inverted red and white squares, I believe, but I'll check once more against the exact wording from gazettes). The other flags that are sometimes seen (as in Znamierowski '99 book) are not documented in Croatian sources, as far as I am aware. Though, I have a set of notes (copies, of course) from Neubecker collection, courtesy Emil Dreyer, that show a set of some dozen flags for naval use (admirals, pennants