Srednjeevropski integracijski načrti med letoma 1918-1945 in Slovenci
The Projects for Central European Integration between 1918 and 1945 and the Slovenes

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the role of Slovenia and the Slovenes in the making of the projects for the Central European integration between 1918 and 1945. Whilst many and different such projects were made in this period, they only became relevant at the outbreak of the Second World War when, in the light of historical revisionism, the opinion prevailed amongst Western European experts that a Danube federation provided the most suitable solution to the Central European question. In response to the projects for the foundation of a Danube federation, in which the central role would be played by Austria, two Central European proposals emerged in the Slovene Catholic camp, with a view to resolving the question of Slovene statehood. The Slovene People's Party leadership supported the project of an independent Slovene state. Located in the hinterlands of Trieste and would be under international supervision. Lambert Ehrlich, a priest and the leader of the Straža (Sentinel) student organisation, in his turn, promoted the Intermarium project, which would unite in a confederation the Slavic nations between the Baltic, Adriatic and Aegean seas. However, when the Western European projects for the reshaping of Central Europe failed to materialise, the Slovene Central European projects lost their relevance as well.

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