. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Croatian Partisans"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Flag of the Croatian Partisans"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "the National Liberation War"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1941"^^ . . . . "center"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Croatian Partisans, officially the National Liberation Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Narodnooslobodila\u010Dki 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 led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists during the Second World War. 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, which was referred to by Winston Churchill as \"the Croatian miracle\" was founded as a constituent of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "National Liberation Movement in Croatia"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ";1941\n*Uprising of the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment\n*Srb uprising\n*Sabotage at the General Post Office in Zagreb\n;1943\n*Case White\n*Operation Kugelblitz\n;1944\n*Battle of Knin\n*Battle of Vukov Klanac\n;1945\n*Mostar operation\n*Lika-Primorje operation\n*Trieste operation"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ";late 1941\n*7,000\n;late 1942\n*48,000\n;September 1943\n*78,000\n;late 1943\n*122,000\n;late 1944\n*150,000\n;Croatian Government:\n*230,000"@en . . . . . . . "57457220"^^ . . . . . "100.0"^^ . . . . . . . . "36911"^^ . . . . . . . . "1118945111"^^ . . . "The Croatian Partisans, officially the National Liberation Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Narodnooslobodila\u010Dki 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 led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists during the Second World War. 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, which was referred to by Winston Churchill as \"the Croatian miracle\" was founded as a constituent of the Dem"@en . . . . . "The rebellion in the French town of Villefranche-de-Rouergue was incited by Croatian and Bosnian conscripts to German divisions in September 1943, with the aim of joining the French Resistance. Although the Nazis brutally crushed the rebellion, Radio London declared Villefranche-de-Rouergue the first town in Western Europe to be liberated from Nazi occupation. In memory of the uprising, there is a memorial park in the town, and town's sole avenue is named Avenue des Croates [Avenue of the Croats]."@en .