The review of: Carlo Spartaco Capogreco: Renicci. Un campo di concentramento in riva al Tevere (1942-43). Fondazione Ferramonti; Cosenza 1998, 178 strani, ilustr.
The review of: Ignac Gregorač: Štampiljke Osvobodilne fronte slovenskega naroda 1941-1945. Podoba in dokaz rojstva slovenske družbe, ljudske oblasti in države v obdobju okupacije in ...narodnoosvobodilnega boja. Društvo piscev zgodovine NOB Slovenije, Ljubljana 1997, 211 strani, ilustr.
The review of: Marjan Žnidarič: Do pekla in nazaj. Nacistična okupacija in narodnoosvobodilni boj v Mariboru 1941-1945. Muzej narodne osvoboditve Maribor 1997, 379 strani, ilustr.
Die Nazis hatten schon vor dem Aprilkrieg 1941 den Boden für die Besetzung der slowenischen Steiermark vorbereitet und Pläne für ihre Eindeutschung aus-.gearbeitet, d. i. für die Unterjochung des ...slowenischen Volkes und seine allmählige Liquidierung. Dabei bedienten Sie sich auch der Organisation »Schwäbisch-deutscher Kulturbund« und anderer Elemente der fünften Kolonne in Jugoslawien. Nach der Besetzung machten sie sich mit aller Gewalt an die Vernichtung alles dessen, was sie bei ihrer Arbeit an der Germanisierung des Landes hätte hindern können. Deshalb mußten Uber fünfzigtausend Slowenen in die Verbannung — Infelektuelle und Landleute —, deshalb plünderten sie sowohl öffentliche wie private Büchereien aus und verbrannten slowenische Bücher, entfernten slowenische Aufschriften, schafften .slowenische Schulen ab, beschlagnahmten' das slowenische Kapital u. s. f., mit einem Wort, sie gaben den Bestand des slowenischen . Volkes und jedenmann, der nicht gewillt war, ein getreuer Untertan des dritten Reiches zu werden, dem Untergang preis.
The author briefly draws an outline of the development of the CP of Slovenia and the Slovene People's Liberation Front in the Slovene Littoral, as, til now, that period has not been sufficiently ...studied, though it had a very great importance for the general people's uprising en 1943. During the first year and a half of the second year of the war, the Liberation struggle in the Slovene Littoral consisted in establishing links between the leaders of Liberation movement in Ljubljana, or rather its activists and the antifascists of the Littoral; it equally comprised the efforts undertaken by CP and Liberation Front first activists to win the people of the Littoral to the Liberation Front and the union of the different focuses of Liberation movement into a whole movement under the leadership of the Provincial Committee of CP of Slovenia; between the first Provincial Party Conference and the collapse of Italy, it also meant turning into a firm net of Liberation Front organizations the sympathy shown to the movement by the people of the Littoral. ...
After the occupation of Lower Styria in mid April 1941 the Germans established an organization similar to the National Socialist German Workers'Party, called »Steirischer Heimatbund« (Styrian ...Patriotic League), with the view of schooling the Lower Styrian population to their imminent annexation to the so-called Greater German Reich. After certain Nazi measures for the behoof of »the consolidation of Teutonism« in Lower Styria (deportation of »alien elements« and confinement of »dangerous persons«), and in view of the vigorous' Nazi demagogy, about 95 o/o of the population joined the Heimatbund. All the male inhabitants between their 18th and 45th year, accepted as members of the Heimatbund, belonged automatically to the Wehrmannschaft. The basic task of these troops was the same as that of the S. A. (Stormtroops), i. e. premilitary training seasoned with political instruction in true Nazi spirit. They were also organized quite analogously to the S. A., put under the control of the S. A.-Group »Sudmark « (South March) in Graz, and commanded by the leader of the Wehrmannschaft: this was up to mid 1943 the S. A. Standartenfuhrer Blasch, and afterwards the leader of the Styrian Patriotic League himself, S. A. Oberführer Franz Steindl. Each district had one or two »Standarten« (regiments): the districts Ljutomer, Maribor-Town, Brežice, Trbovlje each one, and the districts Maribor-Country, Ptuj and Celje each two. Each Standarte had several »Sturms« (companies), i.e. basical military instructional units, which used to comprise 150—200 men of the same place. The organization was achieved in late autumn, 1941, when there were 10 »Standarten« with 307 »Sturms« and 84.700 men.
The first half of the year 1943 gave the Liberation movement in the Slovene Littoral such a broadness and intensivity that, after the collapse of Italy it grew over into a new form of fighting, into ...a general armed rising of the Slovene Littoral people against the national and social oppression. In this rising on lltn September 1943, the National Liberation Council for the Slovene Littoral was founded, consisting of twenty-one numbers, who would as the representative of the Littoral Slovene people under the direction of the IOOF (the Executive Committee of the Liberation Front) lead (the liberation war to its happy close. His intention and wish was that the Littoral Slovenes would be united with other Slovenes in the United Slovenia. On the base of this proclamation, issued at the occasion of foundation, the Supreme Command of the Liberation Front on 16th September 1943, proclamated the annexation of the Slovene Littoral to United Slovenia and to New Yugoslavia. The National Liberation Council for the Slovene Littoral, acting as the highest political body of People's authority in the Slovene Littoral passed many decrees, the most important of which were: the mobilization decree, the decree of voting local liberation committees, and the decree of the big landed estates. On the base of the mobilization decree, which was issued on 11th September 1943, a huge number of volunteers joined the partisan forces, among whom were even old people and girls. Thus, the partisan army was increased to 30 battalions who were gathered into 10 new brigades, out of which 3 divisions were formed.
