Slovenes and their Liberty Struggle During Occupation 1945 Annotated: Issued by the National Committee for Slovenia 1945

By Marko Kranjc, Mirko Bitenc, Maria Velikonja

The end of WWII brought liberation to western Europe, but only continued terror in the form of communism to the east. Because communists ran Slovenia for 45 years from 1945 to 1990, they were able to secretly murder their opponents, hide their bodies, destroy their documents, and continue to create a false narrative of communist heroic acts and accomplishments, while simultaneously painting their opponents as collaborators with the occupier. With the passage of time, more and more hidden documents have emerged to help portray the actual story, and more survivors of the communist's 1945 post-war mass murders have come forward to share their first-hand witness experiences. This report, likely the only copy to have survived the war and communist oppression, clearly sets out the case that Slovenia's anti-communists were not collaborators of the occupiers. From the outset of the war, the pro-Allies group that became the National Committee for Slovenia set up a system of collecting intelligence on the occupier for the Allies, and carried it out throughout the war. Dozens of intelligence agents, embedded in the Village Guards and Slovene Home Guard units, regularly sent information on German military movements to the Yugoslav government in London, via British military intelligence. They used radios, telegrams, and letters. No actual collaborative force would report Germany's military activities to the Allies. Many people paid the ultimate price for helping to produce this document, which was written secretly during WWII. Anti-communist intelligence agents, including the author's father, gathered information about the German occupier and also the communist Partisans, and passed it on to the underground Yugoslav Army radio operators, who then sent the information to British intelligence in London. Other agents took information about German movements and attempted to deliver it directly to the Allies. A number of these agents were uncovered by the Germans and either sent to German concentration camps where they died, or were executed by the Yugoslav communist Partisans. As the document contains the names of numerous witnesses to crimes committed by the Partisans, it could not safely be shared or publicized until recently. This original document, like many others before it, was written in English for the express purpose of informing the Allies about the occupier's movements. As the war continued, the reports, written in real-time, included information about the communist Partisans. The writers could not believe that the Allies would arm and support the communists in Slovenia, who even brazenly killed American military servicemen who parachuted into Slovenia. The cruelty and criminality of the Partisans was an inconvenient truth for the Allies, who had already determined they would support their ally the Soviet Union. This document is being published in order to give immediate access to both historians and to the families of airmen and other military members who now may have more information about how their family members perished in Slovenia and Yugoslavia during WWII. The alarming information contained within it, and long-suppressed, is that hundreds of American and British military men who were serving in Slovenia during WWII were murdered by communist Partisans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CP1NJTDM
• ISBN13: 9798869832665
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"