European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Slovenia was divided. Ljubljana was the hundredth Italian province.
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The Italian right hand, with the bishop Rozman at its lead,
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who sent a letter of thanks to Mussolini for accepting this ‘large family’ into fascist Italy.
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All the other countries, in this region… The Croatians had some sort of country, fascist, satellite,
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but their right to a form of their own was acknowledged nonetheless.
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The Serbs had their own heir to the crown and thus the Kingdom of Serbia. Slovakia was a Protectorate.
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And Slovenia was divided among the occupiers, which means the Italians…
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Hitler came to Maribor and said: Make this land German again for me, the Hungarians took Prekmurje.
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There were some villages in Bela krajina that even the Croatians usurped.
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We were obliged to constitute ourselves as a nation and as a country; nobody acknowledged us.
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Only by strongly determined fighting we forced our allies to understand a people lives here,
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a nation with its own language and its own culture and tradition.
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That’s why the significance of this fight was so essential and vital.
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Had there been no Partisan movement, the Primorje would not be a part of Slovenia now.
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Being an individualist in war time
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While we waited for the breakthrough, many of the boys under my leadership, cried from fear.
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It was a horrific sight.
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The same boys, aged 17, 18 or 20 at the most, volunteered for dangerous actions, attacks, within half a year.
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When a man has weapons, when he witnesses the deaths of his colleagues,
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his friends, even his neighbors from the very same village, a murderous passion overwhelms him.
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