USTASHAS AND GERMANY MADE AGREEMENT ON EXPULSION OF 200,000 SERBS

BIJELJINA, JUNE 3 /SRNA/ - On June 4, 1941, Nazi Germany and the Independent State of Croatia /NDH/ reached an agreement on the emigration, i.e. deportation, of about 200,000 Serbs to Serbia.

It was an agreement in the spirit of a policy that, through violent conversion to Catholicism, forced emigration and liquidation of Serbs, Jews and Roma, sought to create an ethnically pure state of NDH.

On May 13, 1941, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the NDH Andrija Artuković issued the "Executive Order on the Organization and Operations of the Directorate for Public Order", which outlawed about two million Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews and Roma.

That order was used as a legal basis for the genocide that followed, and based on it, Serbs were persecuted, killed, converted to Catholicism and expelled.

The Jasenovac concentration camp was established, and people were killed without trial and thrown into pits.