Istraživanje prikrivenih grobnica u Sloveniji
Investigation Of Hidden Mass Graves In Slovenia

Summary/Abstract: The article provides information about research of the mass graves , that originated from period immediately after the end of the World War Two (May, June 1945). Taking most of the prisoners of war in May, Yugoslav Partisan Army committed large scale executions in several areas of nowadays Slovenia. Among the executed were captured Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrian anti-communists which retreated alongside the German Army, trying to avoid capturing from the Tito’s Partisans. After the surrender to the British forces in Austria, in second half of the May, they were transferred to the Partisans, which then, execute them en masse and without trial. Part of the captured German POWs were executed too. The article deals with the structure of the executed persons, locations, attempts of hiding the traces of the killings. The exact number of victims buried in hidden mass graves would probably never be known. It also provide the detailed information of the activities that official Slovene state commission performed to discover, locate and evident all the sites of mass killings and executed persons. The question of location of mass graves is unnecessarily politicized and connected to the issue of wartime guilt.

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