Diplomatie Problem of the Yugoslav-Austrian Frontier During the Second World War

Abstract

As the Moscow Declaration (Oct. 1943) did not mention the frontiers of the future reestablished Austria, remained the question of the Yugoslav-Austrian borders (as the U. S. S. R. supported the Yugoslav demands) open until the signing of the Paris-Agreement in 1949 resp. to the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. From the time of Jalta-Conference (Febr. 1945) until May 1945 vvas particularly actual the question of the occupational zones of the allies in Austria. Yugoslavia did not succeed in making an agreement with Great Britain and the U. S. A. which would permit her the military administration in the southern part of Carinthia, liberated by the Yugoslav troops in May 1945. In the period from May to July 1945 Yugoslavia had in Styria ari underzone, which vvas actually part of the Soviet occupational territory.