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The Liberation Front was founded and directed by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), more specifically its Slovene branch: the Communist Party of Slovenia. Being the first organized military force in the history of Slovenes, [16] the Slovene Partisans were in the beginning organized as guerrilla units, and later as an army. Their opponents ...
World War II in the Slovene Lands started in April 1941 and lasted until May 1945. The Slovene Lands were in a unique situation during World War II in Europe. In addition to being trisected, a fate which also befell Greece, Drava Banovina (roughly today's Slovenia) was the only region that experienced a further step—absorption and annexation into neighboring Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and ...
The Salzburger Land was administered as the department of Salzach from Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. In 1849 the Duchy of Salzburg was established as a crown land of the Austrian Empire and, after 1866, Austria-Hungary .
The Slovene Partisans were the armed wing of the Liberation Front, [21] which fought in the beginning as a guerilla and later as an army. It was mostly ethnically homogenous and primarily communicated in Slovene. [15] These two features have been considered vital for its success. [15] It was the first Slovene military force. [15]
That made many Estonians unwilling to side with the Nazis to join the Finnish army to fight against the Soviet Union. The Finnish Infantry Regiment 200 (soomepoisid – 'Boys of Finland') was formed out of Estonian volunteers in Finland. 70,000 Estonians were recruited to the German armed forces (including Waffen-SS). Most of them joined in ...
The Russian Liberation Army 1941: Red Army troops storming an apartment block amidst the ruins of war-torn Stalingrad during World War II. (Georgi Zelma/Slava Katamidze Collection/Getty Images ...
In order to protect the removal of troops and material, the so-called Eiserne Brigade ("Iron Brigade") was recruited from 29 November from soldiers of the army. This was decided at a joint meeting of the Reich Plenipotentiary August Winnig, the Army Commander Hugo von Kathen and the Central Soldiers' Council. Around 600 volunteers signed up ...
The Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia was a military engagement that ensued in the aftermath of World War I between forces loyal to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and later the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and forces loyal to the Republic of German-Austria.