In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the gendarmerie of the Drežnik Grad općina was not in Drežnik but in Nova Kršlja, farther away from Drežnik than the gendarmerie of the Rakovica općina. This was to ease
High water at Nova Kršlja
The Ustaše was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945. It was formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement. From its
Poglavnik Ante Pavelić and Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini on 18 May 1941 in Rome. The Ustaše were heavily influenced by Italian Fascism and politically supported by Fascist Italy.
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler with Pavelić at the Berghof outside Berchtesgaden, Germany. The Ustaše increasingly came under the influence of Nazism after the founding of the NDH in 1941.
Anti-Chetnik (anti-Serb) and anti-communist Ustaše poster
A unit of Ustaše in Sarajevo, 1942