The Attitude of the Authorities of The Independent State of Croatia Towards the Refugees in Sarajevo During 1941 and 1942 / Odnos organa vlasti Nezavisne Države Hrvatske prema izbjeglicama u Sarajevu tokom 1941. i 1942. godine

The establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)produced a period of extreme interethnic violence in Bosnia andHerzegovina, resulting in forced population migrations, both temporaryand permanent. In eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, primarily frominsurgent and later predominantly Chetnik attacks, thousands of Muslimrefugees fleeing from death sought refuge in ‘safer’ parts of the NDH.Sarajevo, as the closest and, in a wider circle, the biggest city quickly becamerefugees’ central gathering and rescue point. This paper aims to track themain course of attitude primarily of the local NDH authorities towards theMuslim refugees from autumn 1941 until mid-1942, and the establishmentof the Alipašin Most refugee camp.