The Battle of Grčarice was fought in early September 1943 between the Slovene Partisans and the Blue Guard. The battle was waged in Grčarice in German-occupied Yugoslavia, modern-day Slovenia.
Karl Novak in the 1930s, commander of all Chetnik detachments in Slovenia
Partisans from Šercer brigade near Kočevje in September 1943
Kočevje trials organized in former hall of Sokol assotiations between 9 and 11 October 1943.
The image taken during the Siege of Turjak
The Slovene Partisans, formally the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Slovenia, were part of Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists during World War II, the Yugoslav Partisans. Since a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory and approximately 327,000 out of total population of 1.3 million Slovenes were subjected to forced Italianization since the end of the First World War, the objective of the movement was the establishment of the state of Slovenes that would include the majority of Slovenes within a socialist Yugoslav federation in the postwar period.
During World War II, Nazi Germany and Hungary annexed northern areas (brown and dark green areas, respectively), while Fascist Italy annexed the vertically hashed black area (solid black western part being annexed by Italy already with the Treaty of Rapallo). After 1943, Germany occupied the Italian-annexed area.
Main staff of National Liberation Army in 1944. From left to right: Boris Kraigher, Jaka Avšič, Franc Rozman, Viktor Avbelj and Dušan Kveder.
A triglavka, as used by the Slovene Partisans
