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The June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina began when Serbs in eastern Herzegovina rebelled against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia. Born: Robert Hunter, poet, singer and songwriter, in San Luis Obispo, California (d. 2019) Died: Frederick Gottwald, 82, American painter
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [7] [8] and Fascist Italy.It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers.
June–August 1941 [2] 42,246 [3] Jadovno: Gospić, Lika 1941–August 1941 [4] 10,000–68,000 Lepoglava: Lepoglava, northern Croatia 1941–1945 2,000+ political at least 961 youngsters and 80 other inmates Danica: Koprivnica, northern Croatia 15 April 1941–July 1941 [5] 5,600 Lobor: Lobor, northern Croatia 9 August 1941–November 1942
The main Race Laws in the Independent State of Croatia, patterned after Nazi Race Laws, were adopted and signed by the Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić on 30 April 1941: the "Legal Decree on Racial Origins", the "Legal Decree on the Protection of Aryan Blood and the Honor of the Croatian People", [19] and the "Legal Provision on Citizenship". [20]
On 24–25 July 1941, the Ustaše militia captured the village of Banski Grabovac in the Banija region and murdered the entire Serb population of 1,100 peasants. On 24 July, over 800 Serb civilians were killed in the village of Vlahović. [117] Between 29 June and 7 July 1941, 280 Serbs were killed and thrown into pits near Kostajnica. [125]
The resulting Italo-German client state, known as the Independent State of Croatia, joined the pact on 15 June 1941. The Tripartite Pact was, together with the Anti-Comintern Pact and the Pact of Steel, one of a number of agreements between Germany, Japan, Italy, and other countries of the Axis Powers governing their relationship. [2]
Shortly after Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, [27] the communist-led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow, [27] launched a guerrilla liberation war fighting against the Axis forces and their locally established puppet regimes, including the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Government of National ...
15 June: British Operation Battleaxe attempts and fails to relieve the Siege of Tobruk. The British are heavily defeated at Halfaya Pass nicknamed "Hell-fire pass". 16 June: All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.