What the records say
- When
- 9 May 1945 – 15 May 1945
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 46.54° N, 14.87° E
- Description
- Final World War II operations in Slovenia in May 1945.
- War
- World War II
Battle of Poljana
1945 battle of World War II in Yugoslavia
The Battle of Poljana took place outside of Poljana, near the town of Prevalje in Yugoslavia between the Yugoslav Army and a column of 30,000 retreating Axis soldiers, which consisted of the German Wehrmacht, the Croatian Armed Forces, the Montenegrin People's Army, the Serbian Volunteer Corps, the Slovene Home Guard, the 15th Waffen SS Cossack Cavalry Corps and other collaborationist forces who were on their way to…
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Полянская битва”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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