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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 ...
Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja , Vojin Bakić , Miodrag Živković , Jordan and Iskra Grabul , and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović ...
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia; List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Slovenia; Gal Kirn and Robert Burghardt: Yugoslavian Partisan Memorials: Between Memorial Genre, Revolutionary Aesthetics and Ideological Recuperation. Archived 2018-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Manifesta Journal, 16.
Slovenia was in a rare position in Europe during the Second World War because only Greece shared its experience of being divided between three or more countries. However, Slovenia was the only one that experienced a further step—absorption and annexation into neighboring Germany, Italy, Croatia, and Hungary. [12]
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Military history of Slovenia during World War II (2 C) Pages in category "Slovenia in World War II" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
Franja Partisan Hospital (Slovene: Partizanska bolnica Franja) was a secret World War II hospital at Dolenji Novaki near Cerkno in western Slovenia. It was run by the Slovene Partisans from December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist Italian and Nazi German forces.
During World War II, the Drava Banovina was in a unique situation. Whereas Greece was trisected, this territory (roughly present-day Slovenia) experienced a further step—absorption and annexation into neighboring Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, Hungary, and the Independent State of Croatia.