The beginning of the World War II and occupation in Slovenia in 1941 confronted the leading traditional parties with a dilemma of political and national survival and initiatives for military uprising ...against the occupier. Underground legions began to form and groups that were uniting under organization of military units as well as uniting in their loyalty to the Yugoslav government in London, in support to Western intelligence, and the idea of a post-war restoration of the monarchy. At the same time, the traditional camp encountered activities of the Communist Party, which, with tried and tested tactics of illegal propaganda and uncompromising use of force, effectively intervened in Slovenian (political) space. Major Karel Novak took over, as the commander of the Royal Yugoslav Army in Slovenia, a military formation of resistance against the occupier, which at the same time led his units to a clash with the revolutionary side under the cloak of the LF (Liberation Front). The first national underground movement, the so-called the Styrian Battalion, tried to combine the idea of the liberation struggle with the uprising against the Communist violence. The traditional politics significantly intervened in this idea.
War and Faith Bobiec, By Pavlina
2012, 2012-01-20, Letnik:
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Drawing on the themes of religious rhetoric, embedded in social and political contexts, this study offers new insights into the manners in which the Catholic Church helped mould the Slovenians' ...responses to WWI and reconsiders the reasons for the clergy's political actions amid tensions, which resulted in the Habsburg empire's collapse.
The Second World War opened up the paths to the eliminationist plans of the Communist Party in its ambitions to take over power. The political underground consisted of a number of movements and ...individuals, all of whom collided on the question of the meaning and the form of resistance. Janko Komljanec was among the first politically staunchly aware priests in Lower Carniola designated by the Communist Party as a “national traitor” and thus someone who had to be effectively removed or eliminated before the actual outbreak of the civil war in the Ljubljana province. The process of annihilation simultaneously shows the mechanism of the originally local violence and its protagonists as well as an outline of the milieu that enabled (revolutionary) violence.
The beginning of the World War II and occupation in Slovenia in 1941 confronted the leading traditional parties with a dilemma of political and national survival and initiatives for military uprising ...against the occupier. Underground legions began to form and groups that were uniting under organization of military units as well as uniting in their loyalty to the Yugoslav government in London, in support to Western intelligence, and the idea of a post-war restoration of the monarchy. At the same time, the traditional camp encountered activities of the Communist Party, which, with tried and tested tactics of illegal propaganda and uncompromising use of force, effectively intervened in Slovenian (political) space. Major Karel Novak took over, as the commander of the Royal Yugoslav Army in Slovenia, a military formation of resistance against the occupier, which at the same time led his units to a clash with the revolutionary side under the cloak of the LF (Liberation Front). The first national underground movement, the so-called the Styrian Battalion, tried to combine the idea of the liberation struggle with the uprising against the Communist violence. The traditional politics significantly intervened in this idea.
The article is devoted to the Sokol movement in Slovenian lands during the occupation (1941–1945). The article examines the activities of the Sokol’s League, a paramilitary formation that has made ...decisions to resist the occupiers and the Liberation Front. The author examines the reasons for the failures of the League and similar organizations.
