Croatian Partisans

National Liberation Movement in Croatia
National Liberation Movement in Croatia
	Flag of the Croatian Partisans
Leaders	Andrija Hebrang; Vladimir Nazor
Dates of operation	1941–1945
Allegiance	Communist Party of Croatia (KPH); Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ)
Active regions	Independent State of Croatia
Ideology	Anti-fascism; Anti-nationalism; Communism; Federalism; National liberation; Republicanism;
Size	late 1941 7,000; late 1942 48,000; September 1943 78,000; late 1943 122,000; late 1944 150,000; Croatian Government 230,000;
Part of	Yugoslav Partisans
Opponents	Germany, Italy, Hungary, Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks
Battles and wars	1941 Uprising of the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment; Srb uprising; Sabotage at the General Post Office in Zagreb; 1943 Case White; Operation Kugelblitz; 1944 Battle of Knin; Battle of Vukov Klanac; 1945 Mostar operation; Lika-Primorje operation; Trieste operation;

The Croatian Partisans, officially the National Liberation Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Narodnooslobodilački 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. It was led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists during the World War II. 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 was founded as a constituent of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to the movement as "the Croatian miracle".

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