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Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes Šentvid. Control over them was taken over by the Slovenian OZNA. The prisoners were interrogated and divided into groups A, B, and C (some groups were executed in Gorenjska – in the surroundings of Škofja Loka and Kranj). The commanding authority with regard to the prisoners was the Slovenian OZNA, and in assembly camps there were also members of other nations within the Yugoslav Army who helped with the executions. However, the Yugoslav Army did not divide the prisoners into groups and did not interrogate them. The division into groups A, B, and C was carried out by the Slovenian OZNA, and the transfers were performed partly by the KNOJ units and partly by the Yugoslav Army units. The executions in Rog and other places of execution were, according to our findings, carried out by unidentified Yugoslav Army units and Slovenians. At the same time that Slovenian members of the Home-guard were executed in Rog, the executors also killed some Croatian “ustashe” or members of the Home-guard and probably some members of other nations. The executed injured people also belonged to this group. There were two groups: one group consisted of the transported injured (they were intercepted in the vicinity of Radovljica and returned to Šentvid; allegedly they were executed in Brezarjevo brezno or Koščakovo brezno), and the other group consisted of the injured from the military hospital in Ljubljana (they were executed in the pit at Konfin I). 4. Civilians arrested in Slovenia, persons in hiding and part of the group of people returned from Koroška by the British. Immediately after the people’s power gained control and in most of Slovenia after 9 May 1945, OZNA, based on the lists prepared in 1943 by VOS, started arresting people who were allegedly anti-NOB or national traitors. OZNA was a centralised organisation. In each town, it had commissariat led by a commissar with subordinate OZNA members. At the same time, it established civil branches, so-called local people’s committees (KLOs) that helped the OZNA arrest and locate people in hiding. The KLO and the OZNA also called on those who did not join the Partisans to report with the local people’s committees where they were interrogated (by the KLO and OZNA members). These people were then either released or captured by OZNA. All bigger towns had prisons or some sort of assembly centres where these people were interrogated by the OZNA members. Some of the detainees were sent to the main camps in Šentvid, Teharje, Maribor, Novo Mesto, Murska Sobota and also to smaller or specialised camps in Štemtla, Ajdovščina etc. (depending on the vicinity of the camps). Some of the arrestees were released and some were taken to execution sites in the vicinity of assembly centres or prisons. Their fate was in the hands of OZNA commissariast competent for individual areas, and the decision was confirmed by the Slovenian OZNA command. Those who were transported to the main camps, Šentvid and especially Teharje were, merely because the local commissars sent them “forward”, regarded as enemies of the people (the “sending forward” depended on the availability of local prison space). The people in local prisons and assembly camps were interrogated (the records of these interrogations are partly kept for the Štajerska region, yet only for those who were not executed). The people who found themselves in local prisons and the main assembly camps were taken to execution sites in the vicinity. Slovenian OZNA managed the camps and controlled the fate of these people, with the support and protection of KNOJ units. All those who were arrested in their local places in May, June, and some even in July 1945 belong to this group; they never returned home. These gravesites are the most numerous. They contain from a few to a few hundred bodies (in case of the prisoners executed in Teharje), but most gravesites are believed to contain a few dozen bodies. It is impossible to determine the exact number of the people executed. Without a doubt we can include all those Slovenians that were arrested by OZNA, local committee members and KNOJ in May and June and in July, and the group that was arrested in Koroška, Tržaško area and Goriško area before the partisan army retreated from Koroška and Trieste. 5. The German minority, the so-called Kulturbund. This is a special group of people, estimated at a few thousand members that were arrested and treated in the same manner as group 3; however, most of the members of this group were evicted and sent to Austria because the authorities could not accuse them of collaborating with the occupier. This group included the wealthier population of Štajerska. When eviction to Austria was no longer possible, the people from Šterntal (Strnišče), Brestanica and Maribor prisons were executed in January 1946 on Pohorje. Slovenian OZNA was in charge of the arrests, interrogations and selections. KNOJ was probably also involved in the executions. 212
Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes 4.4. No available data on the executed people This group includes the investigated gravesites for which the police, despite having gathered all available data, found it impossible to discover the identity of the buried victims. 213
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