Povodom trećeg dijela “Žrtvoslova bošnjačkog stanovništva s područja općine Gračanica”
On the occasion of the third part of “The List of Bosniak victims from the area of the Gračanica municipality”

Summary/Abstract: On the occasion of publishing the third part of the list of the murdered victims during the Second World War from the municipality/town of Gračanica, the author reminds of the beginning of this project and the birth of the very idea for this investigation. It is pointed out that in the past, during the time of Socialist Yugoslavia only the names of those who died on the “right side” were mentioned and publicly remembered, as partisan fighters, as well as civilian victims of the occupier and his henchmen – all according to the dominant ideological and political framework. Although the author was already active in the research of the Second World War during that period, he had no idea about the real numbers of victims. The true proportions only became clear later, when he had the opportunity to investigate some of the individual lists of victims for the villages of Džakule and Prijeko Brdo. This prompted him to assemble a team of researchers and to collect data in a similar way for all other villages in the area – the then municipality, and nowadays town of Gračanica. According to the published preliminary results more than half of the total number of victims lost their lives at the very end of the war, in events that are historiographically referred to as the Bleiburg massacre.

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