Osvrt na važniju literaturu o Bleiburgu 1945
Important Literature on Bleiburg Events in May 1945

Summary/Abstract: The author presents all important literature (historical, but also memoirist and publicist writing) which covers events which ocured in May 1945, during the last days of World War II, when Yugoslav army attempted to encircle and capture German and Croatian troops withdrawing through Slovenia toward Austria. During negotiations in Bleiburg (Austria) British forces decided to handed over to Yugoslav army large number of Croatian soldiers and civilians, but also members of Slovenian, Serb and Montenegrian anticommunist forces. All these soldiers and civilians attempted to surrender to Wester allies. Instead they were returned to Yugoslavia. Many were executed in Slovenia (Dravograd, Maribor), other were forced to march to prison camps in various parts of Yugoslavia. The author presents all important literature which coveres these events (Yugoslav socialist histroigraphy, work of Croat, Serb, Slovenian political exiles, works of German, British and Italian historiography). The existence of huge amount of literature covering the Bleiburg events is obvious, but it is also clear that a complete critical study about these events does still not exist, although this was an important event in the modern Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian and Bosniac history.

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