Transnational memory from Bleiburg to London (via Buenos Aires and Grozny)
Journal: Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University)
Year: 2010

Transnational memory from Bleiburg to London (via Buenos Aires and Grozny) 1 1.IntroductionThe starting-point for this contribution is the summer 1945 in Carinthia, when the British Eighth Army handed over thousand of anti-communist, collaborationist and fascist soldiers to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.Those affected included Cossacks who had been fighting against partisans in Yugoslavia and Italy, Croat Ustaa, regular soldiers of the Croat army, Slovene home guard (Domobranci), Serb etniks,