the state of permanent terror, mass killing, raping women and looting properties of their victims in the independet state of croatia forced, primarily, the serbs to rebel. according to the glaise von horstenau reports, hitler was angry with pavelić whose policy inflamed the rebellion in croatia - by which hitler lost ability to engage the independent state of croatia forces on the eastern front. moreover, hitler was forced to engage his forces in quelling the rebellion. for that reason, hitler summoned pavelić to his war headquoters in vinica (ukraine) on september 23, 1942. consequently, pavelić replaced his minister of the armed forces, slavko kvaternik, with the less zealous jure francetić. before meeting hitler, to appease the public, pavelić published the "important government's announcement" (»važna obavijest vlade«) in which he threatened those who were spreading the news "about non-existent threats of disarmament of the ustashe units by representatives of one foreign power, about the croatian army replacement by a foreign army, about the possibility that a foreign power would seize the power in croatia ..." (hrvatski narod, september 3rd, 1942.)