Surrender and afterwards Serbian Volunteer Corps (World War II)
at time, 22 april, neubacher paid final visit ljotić. total collapse of german forces in balkans , in italy recognized being matter of weeks if not days away, , neubacher wanted know ljotić s plans withdrawing , surrendering sdk. next day, during hours of darkness, ljotić accidentally drove car hole had been blown in bridge allied fighter-bombers. neck broken , died shortly thereafter.
on 29 april, tito s forces closing on trieste area, general damjanović issued orders 1st , 5th regiments cross italy, on 5 may in town of palmanova (50 km northwest of trieste) between 2,400 , 2,800 sdk men surrendered british. men belonging other 3 regiments experienced less agreeable fate. moved north ljubljana area austria , surrendered british @ unterbergen on drava river on 12 may 1945. 20 days later these 2,418 men turned on tito s partisans. executed in kočevski rog massacre, while others carted off along 10,000 slovenian domobranci infamous Šentvid camp, near ljubljana. subsequently, these executed.
the group surrendered in italy transported camp @ münster, germany, released in july, 1947. these men made way various countries around world, including united states. general mušicki arrested allied authorities, returned yugoslavia, , executed in 1946 result of sentences passed @ same war crimes trial pronounced death sentence on draža mihailović , number of others.
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