Anti - Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia The Anti - Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia , known more commonly by its Yugoslav abbreviation AVNOJ , ( Serbo - Croatian : " Antifašističko Vijeće Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije " , AVNOJ ) was the political umbrella organization for the national liberation councils of the Yugoslav resistance against the Axis occupation during World War II . It eventually became the Yugoslav provisional wartime deliberative body . It was established on November 26 , 1942 to administer terrorities under the control of the Partisans ' . First session of the AVNOJ . After the Yugoslavian army capitulated on April 17 , 1941 , Yugoslavia was distributed between Germany , Italy , Bulgaria , Hungary and the newly formed puppet state s : Independent State of Croatia , Independent State of Montenegro , Albanian Kingdom and Nedić Serbia . Opposition to these occupation regimes caused the formation of resistance movements , resulting in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( CPY ) , then only active in the underground but fast gaining popularity , assuming the role of leading the forces in the Yugoslavian resistance . The CPY as an organisation comprised people from , and drew support from , the whole of Yugoslavia ; as such , it represented a single Yugoslav identity . On November 26 , 1942 , the Partisan leaders of Yugoslavia convened the first AVNOJ meeting at Bihać , in the northwest of Bosnia , in the hope of gaining political legitimacy . The Slovene delegation could not attend due to intense fighting , but it fully approved the federal build - up of the new Yugoslavia . Comprising a committee of both the communist and non - communist Partisan representatives , under Josip Broz Tito , AVNOJ proclaimed support for : In January 1943 , Germany mounted a fourth large - scale anti - partisan offensive to strengthen its control of Yugoslavia by destroying the central command of the Partisan movement – the Central Committee of the CPY – and the primary Partisan hospital . The Partisans , outnumbered and engaged in major battles with the Chetnik formations of Colonel Draža Mihajlović , Ustasha militias and the combined German and Italian regular forces , were steadily forced into retreat until an elaborate deception plan allowed the Partisans to escape their pursuers . Despite the tactical defeat and the loss of men and equipment , the Partisan central command remained intact and the hospital safe which , over time , enabled the continuation of further operations against the enemy . All the major strategic military offensives of the Axis and their collaborators were ultimately thwarted . In May of the same year , German , Italian , Bulgarian and Croatian troops launched a fifth concerted offensive against the Partisans in south eastern Bosnia , near the Sutjeska river . Again , faced by superior enemy numbers and potential encirclement , the Partisans escaped defeat but not without cost . However , the fact that after their successful breakout the Partisans were still able to mount major counter offensives proved to be a turning point in the battle for control of Yugoslavia . When Italy surrendered in September , the Partisans were further aided by captured Italian armour , control of additional coastal territory , and the shipment of supplies from the Allies in Italy . Second session of the AVNOJ . In its second AVNOJ conference in the Bosnian town of Jajce , from November 21 to November 29 , 1943 , Tito declared AVNOJ to be the superior executive authority . The decisions and the resolutions of the second AVNOJ conference were : Note : the AVNOJ denied all rights to people of German ancestry in the " Provisions of the AVNOJ in Jajce , 1943 " On 21 November 1943 , the AVNOJ decided on the following provisions " ‘ On the Deprivation of Civil Rights ’ " , In the years to come , this formed the legal basis for the treatment of the Danube Swabians , whom they called Germans in Yugoslavia , including the creation of many labor and Concentration camps : No existing text of these resolutions remains available to historians . See also w : de : AVNOJ - Beschlüsse Stalin , the Soviet leader , was enraged when he found out that he was not being informed of the November meeting , and reportedly barred Tito from declaring AVNOJ as a provisional government . The Western Allies , however , were not alarmed , because they knew that the Partisans were the only Yugoslav resistance group actively fighting the Germans . In December 1943 , Roosevelt , Churchill , and Stalin decided to support the Partisans . The United Kingdom joined a month later , and stopped supplying the Chetniks . The first Soviet mission arrived at Partisan headquarters , shortly thereafter . The United States kept a military mission with Mihajlović to encourage continued Chetnik aid for downed American fliers . In May 1944 , German airborne forces attacked Tito ' s headquarters in Drvar , nearly capturing him . Tito fled to Italy , and established a new headquarters on the Adriatic island of Vis . After throwing its full support to the Partisans , Britain worked to reconcile Tito and Petar . At Britain ' s urging , Petar agreed to remain outside Yugoslavia , and in September , summoned all Yugoslavs to back the Partisans . Resolutions from November 1944 . The formulation of the resolutions at Jajce were revised and affirmed on 21 November 1944 in Belgrade , the city had been taken on 20 October by The Red Army and the Partisans under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito . One of the resolutions dealt with : " the decree about the transition of hostile goods to be turned into state property ; about the public administration of the property of absent persons and seizure of the property alienated by force from the occupying powers “ . After this " all possessions of the German Reich and its citizens , on the territory of Yugoslavia “ as well as " all possessions of persons of German nationality , except those Germans who fought as members of the national liberation army and the partisan units of Yugoslavia or who are citizens of neutral states , who did not behave hostilely during the Occupation “ " , should become the property of the new Yugoslav state . Besides this " all possessions of the war criminals and their accomplices without consideration for their nationality and the fortune of each person , who was condemned , is seized by judgment of the civilian or military courts to become the possession of the state “ . New laws starting in 1945 . Translated from w : de : AVNOJ - Beschlüsse On 6 February 1945 , the decree of 21 November 1944 was transferred to the legislation of the Republic of Yugoslavia and incorporated into the Confiscation Law of 9 June 1945 and also into the law for agrarian reform of 23 August 1945 . The law dealing with the voting lists of 10 August 1945 specified that " members of the military formations of the Occupiers and their native accomplices , and those who continuously and actively fought against the liberation army of Yugoslavia and / or . against the Yugoslav army or against the armies of the confederates of Yugoslavia " are all denied the active right to vote . Moreover , the existence of these resolutions are confirmed in the establishment status of the autonomous area Vojvodina , which was created by decree of the presidency of the Serbian representative government ( Službeni glas NIC Srbije of 9 September 1945 ) where a guarantee was made in article 4 " to all nationalities the full equal rights as a citizen of Serbia with exception of the German nationality , that due to the decision of the AVNOJ of 21 November 1944 the civic rights ( državljanska prava ) were taken away . " The AVNOJ resolutions became law on 1 December 1945 explains Leon Geršković and E . Zellweger . As a result , the Flight and expulsion of the Danube Swabians ( 1944 - 1948 ) began as part of the Flight and expulsion of Germans ( 1944 – 1950 ) and more than 170 , 000 Yugoslavian Danube Swabians were declared to be Germans and deported into many labor and concentration camps in Yugoslavia . c . f . List of concentration and internment camps