Peršmanhof
The Peršmanhof , located in Bad Eisenkappel , was a partisan base during the Second World War . On April 25, 1945, a massacre of eleven civilians was carried out by NS units . Today the farm houses a museum on the history and resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes during the National Socialist era .
history
The Peršmanhof became an important partisan base in 1941 . The Carinthian Slovene family Sadovnik ran the farm. At the end of April 1945 around 150 partisans camped at the Peršmanhof in anticipation of the near end of the Second World War . Parts of a special unit of the 4th Company of the 1st Battalion of the 13th SS Police Regiment, which was deployed in the southern Carinthian area to "fight gangs", stormed the Peršmanhof on April 25, 1945, according to a private complaint. The partisans fled. The civilian victims of the attack were the Sadovnik and Kogoj families: four adults and seven children were murdered. Four children survived, three of them seriously injured. The house and the farm building were burned down.
In 1946, the Austrian People's Court began investigations into the perpetration of a war crime . In 1949 the investigation was stopped. The reasons for this are still unknown. There was never a proper judicial process against those involved in SS Police Regiment 13.
Peršmanhof Memorial
On April 25, 1965, the first memorial ceremony took place at Peršmanhof, during which a Slovenian-language memorial plaque was installed at the scene of the event. Commemorative events were held annually from the early 1980s.
In 1982 the Association of Carinthian Partisans set up a museum in part of the rebuilt house, which deals with the history and resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes during National Socialism . A year later the monument to the anti-fascist resistance was rebuilt on the forecourt of the house: it was originally erected in Völkermarkt in 1947 , but was blown up in 1953 by unknown perpetrators. Due to the political situation in Carinthia, the monument could no longer be erected in its original location.
literature
- Wilhelm Baum : Peršmanhof 1945. Protocols of a Nazi war crime. Kitab, Klagenfurt et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-902878-13-7 .
- Fabian Prilasnig: The massacre at the Peršmanhof in April 1945. A source-critical study. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-656-69735-0 .
- Lisa Rettl , Gudrun Blohberger (eds.): Peršman - Zveza Koroških Partizanow. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1588-4 .
Comic
- Verena Loisel (drawings), Evelyn Steinthaler (story): Peršmanhof - April 25, 1945. With an afterword by Lisa Rettl, bahoe books , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903022-85-0
Movies
In the 874th episode "Unforgotten" of the crime scene series , produced by ORF , the events at the Peršmanhof at that time, the unsuccessful investigations in 1949 and the resulting failure to punish the perpetrators are discussed. There, however, a unit of the Waffen SS is charged with the massacre .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum of the Antifascist Resistance in Carinthia: The massacre of the Sadovnik and Kogoj families ( Memento of the original of September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Remember.at: Museum Peršmanhof
- ^ Museum of the anti-fascist resistance in Carinthia: The Peršmanhof after 1945 ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance memorial service at Peršmanhof ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ignored murder story. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 13, 2015, p. 6.
- ↑ Information on the crime scene "Unforgotten" on the ARD website
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 41 ′ 45 ″ E