...Zagreb to Weichs on April 10. In…

...Zagreb to Weichs on April 10.

In their campaign against Yugoslavia, the Germans exploit Croatian discontent, presenting themselves as liberators and inciting Croats in the armed forces to mutiny.

On April 10, 1941, Germans and Italians set up the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna drzava Hrvatska, NDH), which also embraces Bosnia and Herzegovina and those parts of Dalmatia that have not been ceded to Italy.

Though in fact this state is under occupation by the German and Italian armies, Pavelic is made head of the NDH—a takeover facilitated by the passivity of Macek and of the Roman Catholic archbishop Alojzije Stepinac.