Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Moreover, he always passed the night in the most detestable pot-houses, starting at four o'clock in the morning.

So on arriving at Klagenfurt, I was fairly worn out.

But when in answer to my question as to the time the Venetian diligence set off, I received the answer, in an hour hence, I seemed to revive.

I was promised a place, and I also got a good supper.

Despite the negotiations, during which the partisan commander, Milan Basta, assured the British that the prisoners would be treated humanely, and that only political criminals would be tried by courts, everything was decided elsewhere.

A few days earlier, in Klagenfurt, the capital of the Austrian province of Carinthia, Keighley had met Harold McMillan, the British minister resident at Allied headquarters, and out of that meeting came the policy of handing the Yugoslavs, like the Cossacks, over to the forces waiting for them.

The reasoning was partly practical.

The British could not feed or guard hundreds of thousands of prisoners, and partly political.

One staff officer directed that all Yugoslav nationals be handed to Tito's forces, and not to be told where they were going, while a signal from the field marshal Alexander's own headquarters at one point ordered them evacuated to Italy instead.

The men on the spot acted on the former order, and refused to accept the surrender, and directed the column to give itself up to the Yugoslavs.

In the days that followed, the British handed over not only the men in Bleiburg, but tens of thousands more held in camps around Klagenfurt, above all at the displaced persons camp in Wictring, which is today part of the city of Klagenfurt.

The prisoners were disarmed, and on orders that they not be told where they were going, loaded onto trains and told they were being taken to Italy.

What's the worst that could happen?

Andrej Burakovsky, his birthplace is listed as Klagenfurt, Austria.

Yeah, my guy, Andrej Burakovsky, is one of the only guys on the team right now who's actually noted for his shooting ability or has been noted for his shooting ability.

So, yeah, potentially an important player.

Also neben dem Donaupark in Wien und, äh, und Hellbrunn in Salzburg ist das, äh, der Donau-, Donauradweg-Parkrun in Linz, äh, der Stadtpark-Parkrun in Graz.

Dann ist dazugekommen der Europapark in Klagenfurt und letztes Jahr in Promenade Parkrun in Innsbruck.

Äh, dieses, äh, also jetzt, äh, wir si-sitzen ja jetzt im, äh, Anfang September zusammen, an dem je-jetzt kommenden Wochenende wird die insgesamt tausendste Parkrun-Veranstaltung, also wenn man sozusagen die Events mal Standorte rechnet, in, in Österreich sein.

Warum ist der Parkrun so etwas Besonderes? Weil fünf Kilometer laufen kann ich doch eigentlich, da brauche ich nur einmal rund um den Ring laufen.

Das ist im Sekundenbereich, wenn ich den Durchschnitt von jetzt mehr als dreißigtausend Zielenläufen rechne.

Aber genau das ist an sich erwünscht.

Also das, äh, das im Parkrun soll für alle sein und wir haben von, äh, wir haben dabei, äh, also einer von, äh, zwei von uns haben jetzt gerade die, die österreichischen Meisterschaften in ihrer Altersklasse im Halbmarathon gewonnen am, äh, am, äh, am, am Sonntag in, in Klagenfurt und umgekehrt.

Also die werden, werden nie irgendjemand, also sich besser fühlen als irgendjemand, der jetzt frisch dazukommt und, äh, und, und, und auch die genauso unterstützen und, und man kann Parkrun für sich anlegen, wie man möchte.

Yeah.

And we, we were in Klagenfurt, remember that, for the under, for the under-21s.

And we came back, um, absolutely smashed on the, on the, on the train to watch the game.

And, um, but I remember after the game, you and, uh, Ray Clemence went out.

Yeah.

My wife and my two kids, we went out to the lake here in, uh, Klagenfurt, Austria to catch some rays here in late August, early September.

And about halfway there, my wife goes, dang it.

I forgot.