!!!Partisanen

Partisans, persons participating in armed conflicts without belonging 
to military organisations. The term used in Austria for such 
individuals well into the 19th century (for instance in connection 
with the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878) was 
"insurgents". In World War II,  partisan warfare against the German 
''Wehrmacht ''in Yugoslavia spread to Carinthia and the southern part 
of Styria in 1944/45; in Yugoslavia there were Austrian guerilla units 
composed mostly of Slovenes and Austrian communists (including F.   
(see) Honner and F.   (see) Fuernberg). It was not until 1949 that 
partisans taken prisoner were internationally accorded the status of 
prisoners of war under the Geneva Red Cross Convention of that year; 
prior to that date, partisans taken prisoner were treated as civilians 
and summarily executed.

!Literature
J. H. Schmidt, Die voelkerrechtliche Stellung der 
Partisanen im Kriege, 1956; C. Fleck, Koralm-Partisanen, 1986.


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