ПОЛИТИЧКА ЕМИГРАЦИЈА ИЗ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ У СИРИЈИ 1947–1952
Political Emigration from Yugoslavia to Syria 1947–1952

Summary/Abstract: After having been defeated in the territory of Yugoslavia, the remnants of the Croat armed forces found themselves in the territory of Austria. A considerable number of members of these forces, many of whom were wanted by the new Yugoslav authorities under suspicion of having committed war crimes during the war, crossed into refugee camps in Italian territory. From there, most of them proceeded to South America or Western Europe, whereas several hundred Muslims, among whom high offi cers and prominent politicians, emigrated to Syria with the large aid from the Organization for Displaced Persons and the Roman-Catholic Church. Apart from them, Albanian emigrants from the Yugoslav territory, who had been members of Albanian armed units or German SS-units during the war also arrived to Syria. A small number of Serbs, political émigrés, was also in Syria. They had spent the war in the Middle East and didn’t want to return to Yugoslavia after the war. A considerable number of Muslims took part in the war in Palestine in 1948. Many of them continued serving in Syrian or Lebanese armed forces after the war. The acceptance of Muslim refugees was motivated above all by military considerations and Islamic solidarity. However, due to the Yugoslav-Syrian rapprochement and the establishment of closer political, economic and military cooperation between the two countries, the situation of the Muslim émigrés suddenly deteriorated. For that reason many radical emigrants left Syria and settled down in Turkey, Saudi Arabia or Iraq. The number of Albanian émigrés in Syrian territory decreased for the same reasons. The Serbian emigration disappeared soon after the war.

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