[vladimir998]

“This was a mass to remember a Nazi...”

I think he was more of an opportunist. That’s the only way I can understand why he originally hired so many Jews or people of Jewish background to run Croatia when allied to the Nazis:

Vlado Singer was Chief Commissioner of the party. Then he was killed in a detah camp by his own party members.
Slavko Kvaternik was a deputy of Pavelic and married to Olga Frank whose father was a famous Croatian nationalist and of Jewish background (the father-in-law that is). I know there were several other Jews or people of Jewish background in Pavelic’s regime. I can’t recall their names.

I think Pavelic would kiss up to anyone who would make Croatian an independent state. If that mean the Nazis, then he would do it and adopt their evil policies as well.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think Pavelic's connections before 1941 were entirely with Mussolini's Italy. The German decision to invade Yugoslavia was made on the spur of the moment and when Hitler decided to create a Croatian puppet state in part of the country he tried to get the leader of the main Croatian political party, the Peasant Party, to be head of that state, but that man (Vlatko Macek) refused, so Hitler turned to Pavelic, who was in exile and head of a much smaller party.

Pavelic and his supporters killed a lot of innocent people but if you added up the numbers I think you'd find that Tito killed more people during and after the war.