During the communist revolution in Upper Carniola, cases of direct revolutionary violence in 1941 and 1942 in the Kamnik region were rare and separate, and the population felt the activity of the party indirectly through the revenge of the German occupying forces for the Partisan actions. The direct violence of the party increased in the middle of 1943, especially after the capitulation of Italy in the autumn of 1943 The ideologization of the so–called national liberation movement began to intensify, which led to the increasing intensification of the civil war in the Kamnik region, reaching a climax at the end of 1943 and in the middle of 1944. One of the possible beginnings of ideological differentiation within the hitherto relatively harmonious, but quite fragile, resistance movement in the Kamnik region is the Mejač–Kvartič affair from the end of November 1943, which ended very tragically, as did the affair relating to the German shooting of Kamnik hostages in Šentvid in January 1944, among which there were many intellectuals and entrepreneurs, which the Partisan party could have prevented or at least mitigated. In short, when the German Nazi terror was more intense, the civil war, or ideologization, was not as intense, but as soon as the pressure of the German occupation was alleviated, the ideological dispute between Slovenians began to deepen, resulting in the intensification of the civil war, the constituents of which were also revolutionary violence in all possible forms, such as the forfeiture of the property of political enemies, expulsions, threats, torture, killings, etc.
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The publication shows the revolutionary violence of the Region of Primorska. That is the Slovenian ethnic territory, which after the First World War belonged to Italy. This part of the Slovenian ethnic territory is the interest of both state-legal framework, different than the rest of Slovenia, as well as the specific historical development, motivated by fascist persecution and assimilation before Second World War. Political and military conditions for Communist revolution were specific in western part of Slovenia, whereas the long-standing Italian fascist pressure caused the majority of Primorska partisan movement taken as a reflection of the national dream of the liberation. Therefore, it was a different operation of the partisan movement led by the Communist Party of Slovenia. Above all, the capitulation of Italy in September 1943 did not occur here armed anti-communist, which could actively intervened in the civil war.
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The authoress introduced Andrej Glušič, a lieutenant colonel, in her piece. He served in Belgrade before WW II. In March 1942 he returned to Slovenia, where he in December 1943 became chief of staff of Yugoslav king’s army for Slovenia. During the war Andrej Glušič organized Chetnik Detachments in Slovenia, whereas in 1944 he was arrested and dispatched to Dachau concentration camp. In August 1945, he was send to the military prison camp in the vicinity of Salzburg, where he set up and managed the head intelligence centre and organized intelligence centres in the refugee camps in Austria. He was a leader of so called Matjaž movement, when there were illegal groups established and active in Slovenia after the WW II.Throughout, his activities in refugee camps in Austria and later in the United States of America, where he migrated in 1949, were closely monitored by the State Security Directorate (UDBA).
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