Žrtve velikog rata u olomouckom mauzoleju Jugoslavena
Victims of the great war in the Olomouc mausoleum of Yugoslavs

Summary/Abstract: In the study is discussed, in the context of the foundation of the Yugoslav Mausoleum in Olomouc, the identity of the soldiers coming from the territories of Yugoslavia, who in the First World War died in civilian or military hospitals in Moravia and Silesia and their remains were deposited in the mausoleum crypt. After Czechoslovakia came into existence in 1918, the Ministry of National defense, in cooperation with the Yugoslav Embassy, carried out in 1919-1925 a tentave evidence of their graves there as well as in Bohemia and Slovakia, with the aim of securing respectful care of the remains of the war victims coming from the now allied country of Yugoslavia. The deposition of the remains in the Olomouc Mausoleum, built in 1926, was done en masse in October 1928 1928, when during one month the remains were exhumed in 49 sites in Moravia and Silesia and brought to Olomouc. During the exhumation, a personal record of each soldier was made. After a critical treatment of the documents found in the archives in Prague and Belgrade, the author can mobilised in their native country into the army of Austria-Hungary. The group of Serbian prisoners-of-war is small. Critical interpretation of the soures enabled classifying the soldiers according to the country of their origin, with reference to the present-day political situation after the breakup of Yugoslavia at the end of the 20 century. Considered were the problems in the determination of their nationality (in relation to their age. In conclusion the author describes the present-day issue of the legal position of the mausoleum and of its care, in relation with the termination of the state of Yugoslavia and the establishment of new, national states.

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