Nigel Nicolson, a British officer with 3 Battalion, Welsh Guards, who took part in the infamous forced repatriations from Austria in the summer of 1945, said to me that he had deliberately falsified the historical record at the time, writing that the Yugoslavian deportees had been offered ‘light refreshments’ by their Tito Communist guards.
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Booker puts the case that Tolstoy distorts the story contrary to the facts, and that there are no traces in the archives of any massacre ever committed in or around Bleiburg or its surroundings (there being only nine documents in the British Army archives related to Bleiburg in May 1945).
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