sentences:  That month, the Germans and Italians created a puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (; NDH), which implemented genocidal policies against Serbs, Jews and Romanis.The Serb population began to resist, and Jevđević became a prominent leader of the Chetnik uprising against NDH authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1941.He was known for his pro-Italian sympathies prior to the war, and Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović jokingly described him as "an Italian who likes Serbs".