European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Prohibition of Slovenian culture

The resettling of the Carinthian Slovenes.

With the occupation of Yugoslavia they already transferred our parishes into German parishes.

We weren’t even allowed to sing Slovenian in church.

We had an inn, and there we had to hang up posters:

“Carinthians speak German!”

You always had to look out who was at the inn – as there were spies around –

whether you spoke Slovenian or German.

Of course, if you knew there was nobody around, you spoke Slovenian.

In 1942 they resettled five families from Ludmannsdorf.

We were on the list, as well.

Allegedly 16 Families of the parish were to be resettled.

They stopped it then.

We heard that there were so many that they didn’t know where to send them.

They stopped it then.