In the article, the author presents a phenomenon of local selfdefense, “village guards” of sorts which arose in the Kamnik district (Kreis Stein) in the summer and autumn of 1942 as a spontaneous ...response of the population to the violence of the partisan side, which was also connected with retaliatory actions of the German occupier. This type of self-defense was the most developed in the central areas of the Tuhinj Valley (Šmartno, Zgornji Tuhinj) and ceased to exist at the end of 1942, when most men were mobilized into the German army (Wehrmacht). These forms of self-defense, however, had almost nothing to do with the later establishment of the Home Guard (Oberkrainer Selbstschutz) in 1944.
The paper presents the similarities and differences between the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and Slovenia during the period of gaining their independence and of democratization at ...the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. In order to better understand the circumstances, the paper also reaches somewhat back into history and briefly indicates the differences and similarities between the Baltic States and Slovenia at the occurrence of major events of the 20th century. There are many similarities between the compared parties, but there were also important differences, which are evident in the Baltic States particularly from their experience of about 20 years of total independence in the interwar period, while Slovenia had practically no such experience until 1991/92: until 1990 it mostly aimed at becoming as independent as possible within the Yugoslav country.
The article focuses on the first period of revolutionary violence and uses sources reviewed thus far to show that the revolutionary side in Ljubljana and its immediate surroundings carried out ...attacks, kidnappings and assassinations targeting around 200 people between July 1941 and the end of October 1942 until the emergence of the counter-revolutionary side’s armed units; as many as around 170 of those people were killed. The vast majority of them were civilians or non-military persons, but there were also some victims from the revolutionaries’ own ranks – these were Partisan deserters or “unreliable persons”. The article contains an up-to-date list of the names of the victims from this period.
The article presents the attitude of the Communist Party towards religious communities on the local level in Kamnik in the first post-war years, particularly the attitude towards the Catholic Church ...and partly towards Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were the most active non-Catholic religious community in the area. Compared with other areas in Slovenia, the Party’s attitude towards the Church in the Kamnik area was slightly less conflictive in the post-war period; however, we can see the Party’s strong tendencies for controlling the Church and its members and for limiting the Church’s social influence.
The contribution contains an overview of the Communist Party‘s operation in the Kamnik area as well as some consequences of its operation during the war and in the early post-war years. The analysis ...based on archival and other sources shows the organisation and operation of the Communist Party during the war and the consequences of its operation. This refers mainly to the victims, most of which were civilians. The article also presents the post-war repressive measures and the influence the Communist Party had over development in the early post-war years. This period is imbued with revolutionary violence and represents the toughest period of communist totalitarianism.
The article presents a depiction and comparison of the development of revolutionary violence, or, more specifically, a timeline of the number of victims during the Second World War in the areas of ...the Gorenjska region, the city of Ljubljana, and the Notranjska region.
V prispevku avtor dosedanje bazične raziskave o nemški kolonizaciji kamniškega območja v času okupacije med drugo svetovno vojno dopolni z dodatno odkritim arhivskim gradivom v zvezi s tem. Nemška ...kolonizacija, ki je predstavljala le enega izmed številnih ponemčevalnih ukrepov nemškega okupatorja na tem območju, je potekala v dveh fazah: v prvih mesecih po okupaciji je nemški okupator naselil zlasti nemške funkcionarje, uradništvo in učitelje, druga faza, ki se je izvajala pozno poleti in jeseni 1942, paje bila manj uspešna, saj se je na prej slovenske kmetije naselilo zgolj 15 nemških kmetov z družinami, in še ti so se soočali s številnimi težavami.
