Izručenje zarobljenika s bleiburškog polja i okolice u svibnju 1945.
The handing over of Prisoners from Bleiburg Field and its Surroundings in May 1945

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author focuses on events that took place immediately following the end of the Second World War. The majority of the members of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia found themselves in the middle of the fray, along with those civilians who had fled ahead of the Paritsans into the Allied zone in Carinthia. Thus, Bleiburg was the meeting point of British, Partisan, and Croatian armies. After two days of negotiations, the content of wich is still unknown today, the decision to turn the armies of the Independent State of Croatia over to the Partisans was made. According to the promises made, the prisoners were supposed to be treated according to international law concerning the treatment of prisoners of war, but later events were to reveal how far from these norms the treatment accorded to the Croatian forces was, and to what extent the Western Allies were implicated in this whole issue.

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