6 April 1941As part of the ‘Balkan Campaign’, Germany and Italy invade the Kingdom of Yugoslavia without prior declaration of war. The Axis powers Germany, Italy and Hungary divide the country among themselves. The Independent State of Croatia is also created.
1942
26 May 1942Muslim representatives from Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, draw up a resolution to campaign for so-called ‘White Gypsies’, settled Muslim Roma, to be exempt from persecution and deportation, while only itinerant, ‘non-assimilated’ (Muslim) Roma, should be considered ‘Gypsies’. Thanks to this intervention (‘Zenica Resolution’), some of the Muslim Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina are spared from persecution.
