Complex sentence: In 1941 Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, and in the German occupied Banat the Swabian minority was granted a status of superiority over the other ethnic groups in the Yugoslav population.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1941 Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany. In the German-occupied Banat, the forces granted the Swabian minority a status of superiority over the other ethnic groups in the Yugoslav population.