giving Serbs of NDH a chance to escape the Ustaše persecution by joining their ranks. To great annoyance of Germans, Ustaše continued their persecution which made the uprising grow ever bigger, forcing Germans to commit ever more tropps to quell it. While Serbs were forced to join communist People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ) in order to save their lives, Croatians as a nation were divided between those supporting Axis in order to perserve what they perscieved as their new state and those opposing Ustaše. Yugoslav communists who opposed pre-war Serb domination, also offered a federalized state to the Croats, thus creating a platform acceptable to both Serbs and Croats. However, when Ustaše gave away much of Dalmatia to Italian irredentists by agreeing to Treaties of Rome, their support among Croatians sank even lower, especially in Dalmatia which was given to Italy. As Croatian historian Dušan Bilandžić points out; throughout World War II, Croats as a nation were engaged in several wars at once. Firstly, they were engaged in a war against axis occupation. Secondly, they were engaged in a civil war between those Croats who are anti-fascist and those who are pro-axis. And thirdly, they were engaged in an inter-ethnic war between Croats and Serbs. In general, NDH units can be divided into two cattegories: firstly there were the Homeguards (Domobrani), which was a regular army of NDH consisting out of conscripted men with a low desire to fight. Besides them, there were also Ustaše militia (Ustaška vojnica) - a paramilitary arm of Ustaša movement. In 1942, Ustaše government sent a detachment of its units to fight along Axis forces in Battle of Stalingrad. Communist partisans continued to wage a guerilla war against Axis forces in the country. A major breaktrhough happened in September 1943, when fascist Italy capitulated which was a major impetus for Dalmatian Croats to join communist partisans as well as partisans who aquired large quantities of Italian weapon stocks. That same year, partisan uprising spread among Croats in Istria, however Germans considered Istrian peninsula too important in case of spaculated Allied landing on Eastern Adriatic, so Erwin Rommel was sent to Istria and his forces quashed the uprising by brute force. Except for NOVJ and NDH loyal units, Greater Serbian Chetnik Royalist detachments also operated in the country commiting massacres against non-Serb population. As Allied forces prevailed over Axis, NOVJ became recognised as part of