On the Implementation of the Resolution of the Interior Ministry of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia of May 18th 1945 and the Interior Ministry of the Federal State of Croatia, July 6th 1945, about the Obliteration of Cemeteries and Graves of “Occup

Namjera potpunog i radikalnog obračuna jugoslavenskih komunista s neprijateljem neposredno po završetku Drugoga svjetskog rata, bila je i naredba Ministarstva unutarnjih poslova FD Hrvatske od 6. srpnja 1945. odnosno MUP-a DF Jugoslavije od 18. svibnja 1945. o uklanjanju grobalja i grobova “okupatora” i “narodnih neprijatelja”, koja je obuhvatila groblja i nadgrobne spomenike vojnika njemačke, talijanske i mađarske vojske, te ustaše, četnike i slovenske domobrane. Da je naredba o uklanjanju grobalja i grobova “okupatora” i “narodnih neprijatelja” sustavno provođena i na području Slavonije i Srijema potvrđuju sačuvani dokumenti i suvremenici događaja, a i stanje na grobljima.The Yugoslav communists’ intention to have a complete and radical reckoning with the enemy immediately at the end of World War II was contained in the order of the Interior Ministry of the Federal State of Croatia, July 6th 1945, that is of the Interior Ministry of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, May 18th 1945, concerning the obliteration of cemeteries and graves of the “occupier” and “enemies of the people” comprising the graves and headstones of German, Italian and Hungarian soldiers and Ustashas, Chetniks and Slovenian Home Guard. Preserved documents, contemporaries of the occurrences and the conditions in the cemeteries give evidence of the systematic implementation of the order to obliterate the cemeteries and graves of the “occupier” and “enemies of the people” in the territory of Slavonia and Syrmia as well