European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Ljubljana was actually on the border of the occupation zone.
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The north of Ljubljana was occupied by the Germans,
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and from the northern border of the city and southwards were the Italians …
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not to mention the border of present-day Hungary.
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The Hungarians had entered into the Rome-Berlin Axis and occupied Prekmurje.
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Well, of course I knew what lay ahead of us.
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I knew that Italian fascism just like German Nazism had it in their programs to basically liquidate the Slovenes.
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For a while I knew nothing of any Liberation Front (LF), or maybe I only sensed that something was going on.
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One day in early autumn I went up to the Ljubljana Castle and looked towards the German border of Ljubljana.
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I saw huge amounts of smoke billowing up above the village of Rasica.
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That village was situated on the German side. I don’t know how the news came in to Ljubljana.
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But everyone around me already knew that Rasica was burning. That the Germans were burning it.
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That they had rounded up and taken all the male population away.
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That moment I said to myself I can’t just do nothing.
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I didn’t want to overestimate my own powers, after all I was young and I wasn’t expecting that I’d be able to do much.
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But considering what I’d read by Tolstoy, I knew that basically every historical action
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is the result of the actions of many perhaps completely insignificant people,
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who together can achieve something historically significant.
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So I decided that I can’t let myself just stand aside.
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So I went straight to the telephone – there weren’t many at the time, but we had one in our home –
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