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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
On 23 June, immediately following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union, the KPJ decided to launch their armed struggle, and in the following week a KPJ operative visited the Rasina District Committee to organise a detachment of the Yugoslav Partisans. On 22 July, the Rasina Detachment was formed in the forest outside Kruševac, initially of 34 ...
1941 Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia: Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Banovina of Croatia Germany Italy Bulgaria Hungary: Defeat. Occupation of Yugoslavia; Partition of parts of Yugoslavia between the Axis; Creation of pro-Axis puppet regimes in Serbia and Montenegro; Axis establish the puppet state Independent State of Croatia; 1941–1945 World War II in ...
The Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment (Serbo-Croatian: Sisački narodnooslobodilački partizanski odred), also known as the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment (1. . Sisački partizanski odred), was the first Partisan armed anti-fascist resistance unit formed in occupied Yugoslavia following the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers in April
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [8] [9] and Fascist Italy. It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers.
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]
Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR, carried out 22 June 1941.) Original German Barbarossa plan, which contemplated to occupy eastern territory (far away Leningrad , Moscow , and Stalingrad ) until the Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line - Baltic offensive operation (German Army Group North invasion of Baltic states , Belarus and North Russia to ...
The Slovak Expeditionary Army Group of about 45,000 men entered the Soviet Union shortly after the German attack.This army lacked logistic and transportation support, so a much smaller unit, the Slovak Mobile Command under command of Rudolf Pilfousek (a.k.a. the Pilfousek Brigade), was formed from units selected from this force; the rest of the Slovak army was relegated to rear-area security duty.