Croatian Antifascist Movement (1941 - 1945)
Flag
On the meeting of Highest Command of the People's Liberation Movement of Liberation of Yugoslavia (NOPOJ) and volunteer units in Stolice (Serbia) on September 26, 1941 (confirmed by the decree of Highest Command of the NOPOJ of October 1, 1941) was decided that: "All headquarters and commandants of Partisan units on their area must immediately find responding national flags. In the middle of the flag and stretched over whole width must be a five-pointed red star.". According to this, members of the Croatian antifascist movement (Partisans) were using as their flags Croatian red-white-blue tricolour with a red star in the middle, touching edges of upper and lower stripe.
However, the first Partisan flag showed-up in Croatia 1941 was one in Škalić near Brinje in Lika but it was made half of Croatian and half of Serbian colours, without any star. Later, in 1943 at the third congress of United Antifascist Council of People's Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH, kind of parliament) was adopted and confirmed that Croatian flag is tricolour with the red star.
Of course, at that time there were not any specific regulations related with dimensions. It is to assume that old Bannate of Croatia or Independent State of Croatia civil flag were used with applied red star. Anyway, many examples were made in other ratios.
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