English-language historiography has paid scant attention to the events in Yugoslavia in spring 1945, despite the fact that the combined strength of the armies pitted against each other amounted to around 800,000 men, and that it was the only front in Europe which was held independently by a junior member of the anti-Hitler coalition. This article provides an analysis of both the capitulation of the German Army Group E, and the widely diverging descriptions of the same event offered by German and Yugoslav authors. The main argument presented here is that the Yugoslav leadership, prompted by both internal and foreign policy considerations, did not shirk from using less-than-honourable methods to achieve its aims. In doing this, the article will also provide insights into the functioning of the historiography of the socialist era when dealing with potentially embarrassing issues.

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被遗忘的投降

尽管1945年春季南斯拉夫的军队相互抵制的总兵力约为80万人，而且英语是欧洲唯一独立举行的战线，但英语历史学对此却很少关注由反希特勒联盟的初级成员组成。本文对德国E军的投降以及德国和南斯拉夫作者对同一事件的广泛不同的描述进行了分析。这里提出的主要论点是，在内部和外交政策考虑的推动下，南斯拉夫领导层都没有回避采用不那么光荣的方法来实现其目标。这样，