Prijepori saveznika oko zahtijeva Jugoslavije za izručenjem osumnjičenih za ratne zločine iz savezničkih izbjegličkih logora u Italiji 1945.-1947.
Disputes among the allies concerning the demands of Yugoslavia to extradite suspected war criminals from allied refugee camps in Italy, 1945-1947

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of new archival material, the author discusses the views, lack of effect, and conflicts among the Allies (Great Britain and the United States) regarding the Yugoslav government's demand for extradition of Yugoslavian and Italian war criminals. The Yugoslav government, whose position was supported by the decisions, declarations, protocols and conslusions of the Moscow, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences as well as the determination of the Big Three, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and on the basis of the United Nations' Charter, repeatedly demanded that war criminals be brought to justice as quickly as possible, that is, extradited to the states in which they had committed the crimes. The United Nations Commission for investigating war crimes, even if it was supposed to represent the interests of all of its members, thus including Yugoslavia, carried out its responsibilities selectively under the pronounced influence of Great Britain and the United States, keeping in mind their global, geostrategic interests and plans. Despite the fact that Yugoslavian representatives and delegates to Allied commissions and organs of the United Nations, like the specific committees for desplaced persons, refugees, war criminals and so on, tried expressly to have Yugoslavia's legal requests satisfied, their results were unsatisfactory. Yugoslavia's investigative bodies were never granted entry into Allied refugee camps in Italy, and the Italian government was mute to all demands for extradition of its citizens who had committed war crimes in Yugoslavia. The Allies and the UN, inspite of constantly asserting that the responsibility for punishing war criminals was theirs, fully obstructed several thousand Yugoslav demands, extraditing only a tiny number of accused war criminals.

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