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Bleiburg repatriations

May 1945 · 46.59° N, 14.80° E

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When
May 1945
Kind
Treaty
Coordinates
46.59° N, 14.80° E
Description
crime in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II

Bleiburg repatriations

Incident in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II

The Bleiburg repatriations were a series of forced repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria of Axis-affiliated individuals to Yugoslavia in May 1945 after the end of World War II in Europe. During World War II, Yugoslav territory was either annexed or occupied by Axis forces, and as the war came to end, thousands of Axis soldiers and civilian collaborators fled Yugoslavia for Austria as the Yugoslav Army (JA) gradu…

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