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November 1943 the Front joined Josip Broz Tito’s
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From its principal base in the forests near Kočevje, in the mountainous region of Kočevski Rog, the Front combined operations against the occupiers and their
Slovene collaborators in the White Guard with a ruthless struggle against potential rivals, such as members of the Slovene People’s Party. In
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The victims were thrown into various pits and caves, which were then sealed with explosives. There were many thousands of victims, including most of the more than 10,000
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Resistance, Imprisonment & Forced Labor: A Slovene
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World War II prisoner of war massacres by Yugoslav Partisans
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had most of them massacred at the infamous pits of Kočevje.
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673:Šterbenc Svetina, Barbara (2018).
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332:was a series of massacres near
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514:To Walk with the Devil
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19:Part of a series on
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