Fascist violence in the Primorska region after world war I

The case of Križ near Trieste

Abstract

The contribution deals with – with the help of newspaper sources (daily Edinost), archival documents, literature and testimonies – the vicious acts of the black squad in Križ near Trieste during the ascent of fascism to power (1919–1922) and with the turmoil that captured the Julijska krajina (Julian March) after World War I. Characteristic of those acts is not only political but as well national intolerance of fascist groups in the mentioned Slovene settlement. Violence was not fixed on a single group of people but on the entire Slovene village community regardless of political appurtenance of the local people. The degree of violence was very high, especially at the breaking in and devastation of the cultural society the Ljudski oder, and at parliamentary elections in 1921.