Ljubljana — the Heroic Town

Abstract

Ljubljana was the first Yugoslav town, which President Josip Broz Tito distinguished for its exceptional heroism during the National Liberation War (NOB) with the Decoration of the National Hero. The author numbers some thoughts which emerge to the historian at the fact that Ljubljana as the Heroic Town became present in the narrower and broader native as well as in the world history. The author analyses also some concrete actions of the population of Ljubljana during the NOB on one side, and the forms of terrible violence of the occupiers and native traitors on the other. The author presents the ramification of different committees of the Liberation Front (OF) during particular periods and elucidates the over-growth of the OF into the revolutionary state within the state already in the autumn 1941. During the NOB even 90 % of the population in Ljubljana took part in different actions. Ljubljana was at that time the »heart« of the National Liberation Movement of the Slovene nation.