Celje ali Cilli: kultura med nemško okupacijo
Celje or Cilli: culture during the German occupation

Summary/Abstract: This contribution focuses on the cultural life in Celje and its protagonists during World War II. In the attempt to Germanise Slovenia and its inhabitants, the German occupiers started implementing measures for the eradication of the local ethnicity and culture immediately after their arrival, and their primary target was the Slovenian culture. Consequently, from the institutional point of view, the latter was utterly destroyed and its personnel eliminated. Only the cultural monuments created by German artists – or those allegedly proving that the occupied territories, among them Lower Styria, actually constituted the German cultural area – were preserved. Therefore, the occupiers’ cultural policy as an integral and crucial part of the broader propaganda apparatus in the service of Germanisation was largely based on the German tradition or its restoration.

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