Croatian Partisans

National Liberation Movement in Croatia
LeadersAndrija Hebrang[1]
Vladimir Nazor[2]
Dates of operation1941–1945
AllegianceCommunist Party of Croatia (KPH)
Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ)
Active regionsIndependent State of Croatia
Ideology
Size
late 1941
  • 7,000
late 1942
  • 48,000
September 1943
  • 78,000
late 1943
  • 122,000
late 1944
Croatian Government
Part ofYugoslav Partisans
OpponentsGermany, Italy, Hungary, Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks
Battles and wars
1941
1943
1944
1945

The Croatian Partisans, officially the National Liberation Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Narodnooslobodilački pokret u Hrvatskoj; NOP), were part of the anti-fascist National Liberational Movement in the Axis-occupied Yugoslavia which was the most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement.[5][6] It was led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists during the World War II.[7] NOP was under the leadership of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ) and supported by many others, with Croatian Peasant Party members contributing to it significantly. NOP units were able to temporarily or permanently liberate large parts of Croatia from occupying forces. Based on the NOP, the Federal Republic of Croatia was founded as a constituent of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to the movement as "the Croatian miracle".[8]

  1. ^ Hrvatski leksikon A-K, Naklada Leksikon d.o.o., Zagreb, 1996, ISBN 9539672813, p. 387
  2. ^ "Zemaljsko antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Hrvatske (ZAVNOH) - Proleksis enciklopedija". proleksis.lzmk.hr.
  3. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 96.
  4. ^ "Čestitka predsjednika Vlade Andreja Plenkovića u povodu Dana antifašističke borbe". Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  5. ^ Jeffreys-Jones, R. (2013): In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199580972, p. 87
  6. ^ Adams, Simon (2005): The Balkans, Black Rabbit Books, ISBN 9781583406038, p. 1981
  7. ^ Rusinow, Dennison I. (1978). The Yugoslav experiment 1948–1974. University of California Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-520-03730-8.
  8. ^ Vuk-Pavlović, Stanimir (15 September 1991). "Serbians Remember Who Sided With Who; Croatia's Support". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

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