Bleiburg —the myth. On the history and current relevance of the Ustaša-Meeting in Kärnten/Carinthia/Koroška SUPPORTED BY CO-EDITOR Additionally thanks to the following student representative groups: Fakultätsvertretung GEWI, IG PoWi, StV|BaGru_Soziologie, IGGerm, StRV/IG-Geschichte, Roter Vektor Mathematik, Roter Vektor Physik, Roter Börsenkrach. IMPRINT www.no-ustasa.at
[email protected] AK Bleiburg/Pliberk. /AK-BleiburgPliberk Wien/Dunaj, April 2019. @noustasa_at Table of contents Introduction Page 04 Brief historical summary Page 06 The Myth of Bleiburg Page 16 From Field to Pilgrimage Site Page 22 The Protagonists Page 26 The Austrian Authorities and the Ustaša-Meeting Page 32 Symbols of Croatian Fascism Page 40 Glossary Page 48 »The ground on which the monument stands today was given by the Loibach farmers to the Ustaši. Most of them were Nazis. The farmers, who were not, nevertheless arranged about 100 meters of path and graveled it so that they could reach the monument with the cars.« - Pavla Apovnik, contemporary witness from Bleiburg/Pliberk 4 For years, the historical revisionist and, above all, annoyed them, the meeting commemoration of the Loibach Field/ nevertheless fundamentally remains what Libuško polje at Bleiburg/Pliberk has been it was. The devotional items are now sold observed and is the subject of anti-fascist in the parking lot, the beer is drunk in criticism. This attracted only marginal advance and the T-shirts with the forbidden attention despite the size of the meeting. symbols are simply turned inside out. It is After all, we live in Austria. In 2015 - the and remains one of the largest right-wing anniversary year of the events in Bleiburg/ extremist meetings in Europe.