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Here are the cover and inside pages of Peter Handke's Yugoslav passport.pic.twitter.com/klfn8H8zG8
It was issued by the Yugoslav embassy in Vienna on June 15, 1999. On the left side of the passport, just above the photo of Handke, his nationality is listed as "Yugoslav."pic.twitter.com/e06H0MjCVD
There are lots of questions about Peter Handke's Yugoslav passport, and I try to answer them the best I can in my story. Here's what I know and don't know.
I found photos of his passport on a digital archive created a few years ago by the Austrian National Library. Here's the somewhat obscure page where the photos were posted as thumbnails (they were deleted after I began making inquiries about them). https://handkeonline.onb.ac.at/node/2495
I verified the photos by contacting the friend of Handke's who was listed (before the photos were deleted) as having provided them to the archive. Handke's friend confirmed that Handke had given him the passport. I'll get back to what Handke told the friend in a moment.
Getting a passport from Milosevic's Yugoslavia in 1999 was an exceptional act for almost any outsider. At the time, Yugoslavia was generally considered an outlaw nation. The U.S. and its allies had just ended a 78-day bombing campaign to force Milosevic's army out of Kosovo.
In Kosovo as well as Bosnia, Serb military forces were accused of war crimes including, in the case of Bosnia, genocide. Milosevic was indicted for crimes against humanity just three weeks before Handke obtained the passport from his regime.
Peter really finessed Milosevic lol
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