 The "ZAVNOH", state anti-fascist council of people's liberation of Croatia, functioned since 1942 and formed an interim civil government by 1943.NDH's ministers of War and Internal Security Mladen Lorković and Ante Vokić tried to switch to Allied side.Pavelić was in the beginning supporting them but when he found that he would need to leave his position he imprisoned them in Lepoglava prison where they were executed.