Kočevski Rog
The Kočevski Rog (German Hornwald ) is a karst - ridge in Slovenia in Kočevje (German Gottschee ). He reached in Veliki Rog ( "Big Horn" Hornbühel, horn Büchel or horn Bichl 1,099 meters), at nearby Pogorelec (Pogorelz) 821 meters.
The Hornwald was in the German language island of the Gottscheers . After the Germans were resettled from the Italian- occupied Gottschee in 1941 and after the final expulsion in 1945, the area remained almost deserted. In 1942 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia was there for some time , as well as the leadership of the Osvobodilna Fronta and the high command of the Slovenian partisans as well as printing plants and other technical infrastructure. There was also a military hospital and the settlement Baza 20 (base 20), which is now a tourist attraction. Nearby is the Rog-Črmošnjice or Gače ski area .
After the Second World War, mass shootings by Tito partisans took place in the Hornwald , during which those who were shot were thrown into karst gorges. Among the victims were many members of the Croatian Home Guard , Slovenian Domobranzen and Slovenian and Serbian White Guards who had previously been extradited to Yugoslavia by the British (see Bleiburg Massacre ).
literature
- France Kozina, Milan Zajec, France Dejak: Ušli so smrti [They escaped death] (Slovenian). Hermagoras Verlag Klagenfurt. 1998. 224 pages.
- Griesser-Pecar, Tamara (2003): The torn people . Slovenia 1941-1946. Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 604 pages, ISBN 3-205-77062-5 .
- Mitja Ferenc, Joachim Hösler (ed.): Searching for traces in the Gottschee. German-speaking settlers in Slovenia . German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe eV, Potsdam 2011. 245 pp.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 40 ′ N , 14 ° 56 ′ E