When Ante Pavelić arrived in Delnice on 13 April 1941, he was awaited by a small group of Frankists.

More concretely, a large group of Yugoslav soldiers had been retreating from the Italian border through Jelenje, Lokve, Mrkopalj and Jasenak.

Upon entering Mrkopalj, they were met by a Croat force belonging to Mačekova zaštita [hr], but the Yugoslav soldiers refused to disarm.

[3]: 347 At the beginning of June, the Ustaše arrested about ten villagers, to whom they read the names of some prominent individuals in and around Jasenak, requesting that they come to Ogulin.

[3]: 359 Around July 8, the Ogulin kotar began the process of deporting the families to the Sisak concentration camp on a list of 55 people marked for moving to make room for Slovene arrivals, from Jasenak, Josipdol, Munjava, Trojvrh and Vajin Vrh.