The Gonars concentration camp was one of the several Italian concentration camps and it was established on February 23, 1942, near Gonars, Italy.
Monument for Slovene victims
The Province of Ljubljana was the central-southern area of Slovenia. In 1941, it was annexed by Fascist Italy, and after 1943 occupied by Nazi Germany. Created on May 3, 1941, it was abolished on May
Gonars concentration camp
…camp, which served as equivalent of the final solution in Mario Roatta's ethnic cleansing policy against ethnic Slovenes from the Italian-annexed Province of Ljubljana and Croats from Gorski Kotar, in accord with the racist 1920s speech by Benito Mussolini, along with other Italian war crimes committed on the…
During World War II, Nazi Germany and Hungary occupied and annexed the northern areas (brown and dark green areas, respectively), while Fascist Italy occupied the vertically hashed black area, including the Gottschee area (the solid black western part had already been annexed by Italy with the Treaty of Rapallo). After 1943, Germany took over the Italian occupational area as well.
The Province of Ljubljana (Provincia di Lubiana, borders in red) inside the northeastern Kingdom of Italy
1942 announcement that exiting Ljubljana is forbidden by Fascist Italian authority
Tabula Ducatus Carnioliae, Vindorum Marchiae et Histriae