I don't know, but it seems that the Croatians exaggerated the death toll of Tito's postwar massacres as much as Tito's government and Serb nationalists exaggerated the massacres committed by the fascist
Ustase against the Serb minority during World War II:
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ww2.htmlFortunately, it seems that there are also more level-headed assessments of the losses suffered and atrocities committed by all participants in former Yugoslavia during World War II and thereafter.
Some of them can be found under this link:
http://www.wargamer.com/sp/ww2/Exaggerations notwithstanding, what either side did during this multi-lateral war and its aftermath was bad enough. The underlying mentality was accurately described by German general Lother Rendulic. In a book called
Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941-1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres, by Edmond Paris, translated by Lois Perkins, published by The American Institute for Balkan Affairs, Chicago, in 1961, Rendulic is quoted as having said the following about the massacre of Serbs by the Ustase:
While German troops were still in several places in Croatia, the Croatians began a beastly persecution of the Orthodox (Serbs). At this time at least a half million people were killed. An unbelievable governing mentality was responsible, as I learned in August 1943 when I received the answer to a question of mine from a govenment functionary in the circle of the chief of state. When I said that I could not at all understand how it was possible, in spite of all the hatred, to kill half a million people, he answered: ‘Half a million is libelous. No more than 200,000 were killed.’ Against this type of thinking ... one can do nothing with arguments. During the period of my command, signs appeared of a new persecution of the Orthodox. That persecution caused me no end of trouble and I finally had to put a stop to it with energetic measures and threats of force.
Rendulic was talking about the fascist
Ustase, but he could have said the same about the Serb Cetniks or Tito's partisans. A description of the latter’s behavior towards the German ethnic minority can be read on the following thread of this forum:
The Fate of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia
http://www.thirdreichforum.com/phpBB2/v ... 8fe5f3be98
The co-responsibility of British troops who allowed Tito's partisans to get hold of Croatian troops and refugees is another issue. It parallels the handing over of tens of thousands of Vlassov soldiers and Cossacks who had fought on the German side to the Red Army in Germany and Austria.
As in the case of Bleiburg, the Allies knew very well what would happen to these people.
Where is Dunno, by the way? Or is the term supposed to mean “don’t know”?
by Wolffen on 04 Oct 2002 10:59 
