Kotarsko poglavarstvo of Šibenik

On 8 September 1943, Italy capitulated and the Independent State of Croatia officially recognized the Rome contracts, along with the Treaty of Rapallo of 1920, which had given Italy the territories of Istria, Fiume (now Rijeka), and Zara (Zadar). German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop approved of the NDH taking the Dalmatian territories gained by Italy at the time of the Rome contracts. By now, most of this territory was controlled by the Yugoslav Partisans, since the cession of those areas had made them strongly anti-NDH (more than one third of the total population of Split, for instance, is documented as having joined the Partisans). Bearing this in mind, the collection documenting the transition period from Italian- to German- to Yugoslav-controlled Dalmatia serves as an invaluable insight into the goings-on in the town of Šibenik as well.