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Biti partizan, vaški stražar ali domobranec
To Be a Partisan, Village Guard or Home Guard

Author(s): Mirjam Dujo Jurjevčič
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Študijski center za narodno spravo
Keywords: Second World War; southern Notranjska region; mobilisation; Partisans; Village Guards; Home Guards;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents some motives that caused individuals during the Second World War to join either Village Guards, Partisan units, or Home Guard units. Of course, we recognise that there were also other reasons for this. We focus only on collected testimonies and other sources connected to the area of the southern Notranjska region, i.e. the six wartime municipalities of Begunje, Bloke, Cerknica, Rakek, Stari trg and Sv. Vid, which are today the municipalities of Bloke, Cerknica and Loška dolina.

  • Issue Year: 4/2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 119-154
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Slovenian