Bleiburg, Austria, on the Yugoslavian border. The first units of Croatian Ustashas arrive in Austria, fleeing Tito’s partisans. They immediately surrender to British forces, who refuse and force them to return to Yugoslavia unarmed, where they are captured by the partisans. Over the following days, approximately 50,000-60,000 collaborators, mostly Croats and Muslims, are killed in the Bleiburg and Maribor area. This represents half of the Yugoslav soldiers who surrendered to the partisans along the Austrian border in May 1945.
