Battle of Poljana

Battle of Poljana
	Part of World War II in Yugoslavia and the End of World War II in Europe
	; Captured Germans, Ustaše, Chetnik, Slovene soldiers and civilians in Maribor after the battle
Date	May 14–15, 1945
Location	Poljana, near the village of Prevalje, Yugoslavia
Result	Yugoslav victory Axis forces surrender; Beginning of the Bleiburg repatriations;
Belligerents
Axis and collaborationist forces:; Germany; Croatia; Slovene Home Guard; Chetniks	Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Löhr ; August Schmidhuber ; Helmuth von Pannwitz ; Erwin Rösener ; Desiderius Hampel ; Ante Pavelić ; Vjekoslav Luburić (MIA); Rafael Boban (MIA); Vjekoslav Servatzy ; Vladimir Metikoš ; Kosta Mušicki ; Marisav Petrović; Sekula Drljević ; Leon Rupnik	Kosta Nađ; Petar Drapšin
Units involved
Army Group E 104th Jäger Division; 369th (Croatian) Infantry Division; 373rd (Croatian) Infantry Division; 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division; 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen; XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps; Croatian Armed Forces Ustaše Militia; Domobrans; Montenegrin National Army; Chetniks Montenegrin Chetniks; Serbian Volunteer Corps; Slovene Home Guard	Yugoslav Army 3rd Army; 4th Army;
Strength
Mixed column of 30,000 Axis soldiers and civilians	Unknown
Casualties and losses
350 killed, wounded or missing	100 killed and wounded
	Approximately 70,000 to 80,000 German, NDH, Montenegrin, Chetnik, Slovene Home Guard soldiers and civilians massacred around Maribor

The Battle of Poljana took place outside of Poljana, near the town of Prevalje in Yugoslavia (modern-day Slovenia) between the Yugoslav Army and a column of 30,000 retreating Axis soldiers, which consisted of the German Wehrmacht, the Croatian Armed Forces (which consisted of Home Guard and Ustaše soldiers), the Montenegrin People's Army (which was of former Chetniks and survivors of the Battle of Lijevče Field), the Serbian Volunteer Corps, the Slovene Home Guard, the 15th Waffen SS Cossack Cavalry Corps and other collaborationist forces who were on their way to surrender to the British in Austria. The battle was one of the last confrontations of World War II in Europe taking place on 14 and 15 May 1945, 6 days after Germany unconditionally capitulated.