Leše massacre
The massacre of Leše ( German : Liescha ) took place shortly after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht around May 18, 1945 in the Prevalje municipality near the Austrian-Slovenian border. Around 700 men and women were killed, most of them slain. At first they were only covered with sticks. After a few months, when the smell of corpses became too extreme, they were buried makeshiftly in a former coal mine that was 21 meters long, three meters wide and two and a half meters deep.
A memorial cross was erected near the mass grave by the relatives of the Carinthian deportees in 1990. Commemoration ceremonies have also been held on site since the same year. In 2009 a representative of the Carinthian Slovenes took part for the first time .
In present-day Slovenia, the Slovenian government commission has registered more than 600 mass graves from the period around the end of the Second World War; there are hints for numerous others.
See also
literature
- Florian T. Rulitz: The tragedy of Bleiburg and Viktring. Partisan violence in Carinthia using the example of anti-communist refugees in May 1945. Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna, 2011. ISBN 978-3-7086-0616-3
- Florian T. Rulitz: The Bleiburg massacre - forgotten victims of the partisans in May 1945 in Carinthia. The Carinthian Landsmannschaft culture, country, people; Contributions to folklore, history, society and natural history 9–10 / 2012.
- Tamara Griesser-Pečar: The torn people. Slovenia 1941-1946. Occupation, collaboration, civil war, revolution. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77062-5
- Alfred Elste, Michael Koschat, Paul Strohmaier: Victims, perpetrators, informers. "Partisan Justice" using the example of the kidnappings in Carinthia and Styria in May / June 1945: law or revenge? Hermagoras Verlag Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Mass grave discovered in Slovenia ; Retrieved September 20, 2010
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: The murderers made a joke ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on Sep. 20 2010
- ↑ ORF-Online: mass grave investigated in Slovenia ; accessed on Sep. 20 2010
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Liescha becomes a place of forgiveness ; accessed on Sep. 20 2010
- ^ ORF-Online: mass grave near Liescha ; accessed on Sep. 20 2010
- ↑ Karl-Peter Schwarz: A one and a half meter thick layer of skeletons. In: FAZ.net . November 11, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Der Standard : mass grave discovered near the Carinthian border ; accessed on Sep. 20 2010
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