Editing Franjo Tuđman (section)

==World War II==
[[File:Tuđman partizan.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Tuđman as a member of the Yugoslav Partisans]]
[[File:Franjo Tuđman i Joža Horvat 1945.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Tuđman (left), with [[Joža Horvat]] (right), in [[Yugoslav Partisans|Partisan]] uniform, February 1945]]
On 10 April 1941, when [[Slavko Kvaternik]] proclaimed the [[Independent State of Croatia]] (NDH), the [[List of World War II puppet states|puppet state]] of [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Fascist Italy]], Tuđman left school and started publishing [[Underground media in German-occupied Europe|secret newspapers]] with his friend Vlado Stopar.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}} He was recruited into the [[Yugoslav Partisans]] at the beginning of 1942 by Marko Belinić.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}} His father also joined the Partisans and became a founder of the [[State Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia]] (ZAVNOH). According to Tuđman, his father was arrested by the [[Ustaše|Ustashas]], the [[Fascism|fascist]] and [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalist]] organization that governed the NDH, and one of his brothers was taken to a [[Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia|concentration camp]].{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}} They both managed to survive, unlike the youngest brother Stjepan{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}} who was killed by the [[Gestapo]]{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=16}} fighting for the Partisans in 1943.

Tuđman was traveling between Zagreb and Zagorje using false documents which identified him as a member of the [[Croatian Home Guard (World War II)|Croatian Home Guard]]. There, he was helping to activate a partisan division in Zagorje.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}} On 11 May 1942, while carrying Belinić's letter, he was arrested by the Ustashas, but managed to escape from the police station.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=50}}