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The NDH national football team played 14 friendly matches against other Axis nations and puppet states between June 1941 and April 1944, winning five. [184] The NDH had other national teams. The Croatian Handball Federation organized a national handball league, and a national team. [185] Its boxing team was led by African-American Jimmy Lyggett ...
The Rašića Gaj massacres were massacres of Serbs committed by the Ustaše forces at the beginning of the World War II in Rašića Gaj, Vlasenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina (contemporary Independent State of Croatia) in June and July 1941. The estimations of the number of Serbs killed in Rašića Gaj vary between at least 70 and 200.
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
In June 1941, Serbs in eastern Herzegovina rebelled against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), an Axis puppet state established during World War II on the territory of the defeated and occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatian: Dan antifašističke borbe) is a public holiday in Croatia.It is observed on 22 June and commemorates the formation of the First Sisak Partisan Detachment, a Communist-led guerrilla unit during World War II in Yugoslavia on 22 June 1941, and in general the uprising of the anti-fascist Croatian wing of the Yugoslav Partisans against the forces of Nazi ...
June 1941 – 1942 Doljani, Donji Lapac: 1,186 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše. [37] Gacko massacre: 3 June 1941 Korita 133–180 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše; corpses thrown into the Koritska Jama pit. [29] [38] [28] Knin massacre: 15 June 1941 Knin: c. 60 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše. [28] Rašića Gaj massacres: 22 ...
In June 1941, he issued a decree limiting the freedom of movement of Dubrovnik's Jewish and Serb inhabitants. At least 58 individuals were executed on Rojnica's orders between May and December 1941. Upon completing his tenure, he engaged in intelligence work for the rest of the war, and received a decoration from Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić.
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]