Related Repatriations
Ferlach Rosenbach Lavamünd Graz Lienz Known repatriation locations on the map of AustriaSeveral isolated armed incidents and repatriations happened at and after this time elsewhere in Carinthia.
The Yugoslav intelligence officer Simo Dubajić negotiated with the British forces about the organization of surrender and repatriation elsewhere along the Yugoslav-Austrian border. At a separate location near the Carinthian village of Rosenbach, several thousand prisoners were daily repatriated to Yugoslavia, including a lot of members of the Slovene Home Guard. These repatriations covered some 32,000 people and were ceased by the British on 1 June.
Repatriations also took place just northeast of Bleiburg at Lavamund.
On the evening of 20 May, a group of NDH troops appeared near Ferlach, located approximately 40 km (25 mi) west of Bleiburg, and attempted to set terms for their passage west. "As the Ustaše did not want to surrender" reads the operational diary of the 2nd Battalion of the Partisan 11th Dalmatian Assault Brigade, "we attacked them at 21:00hrs. On this occasion we took 24 Ustaše soldiers and one officer".
At a location near Graz, British forces repatriated around 40,000 Cossacks to SMERSH. The main repatriation of Cossacks to the Soviet Union happened on 28 May near Lienz.
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