Michael Palaich: Croats have made so many sacrifices, yet they easily surrendered their sovereignty

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Palaich, an American of Croatian descent, accessed British archives, recording testimonies of Croatian survivors from Bleiburg as well as British personnel involved in one of the greatest tragedies of the Croatian people in May 1945. What did the British officers at Bleiburg tell Palaich, and what did the surviving Croats say?

For the Mrežnica podcast, he reveals details of these shocking testimonies, talks about his life journey, how he faced a possible 60-year prison sentence in the U.S. for smuggling weapons to Croatia, what he remembers from the Croatian War of Independence and the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, his conversations with Tuđman, why he wanted to join HOS, and his views on today’s Croatia.