The "Centre" of Carinthian Slovenes during the National Liberation War

Abstract

Although among the Carinthian Slovenes during the war statistically the »Centre« with the theory of waiting and surviving prevailed we have very few testifies and almost no archival materials; thus it has no been historiographically processed. There was no collaboration with the German nacism among the Carinthian Slovenes neither did the counter-revolution exceed the level of »planning« groups and assistants in periodical antipartisan actions of the Ljubljana white guards /belogardisti and home-guard/ domobranci emissaries. The Carinthian »Green cadre« began to join the partisans from summer 1942 on. From autumn 1943 the OF (Slovenian Liberation front) progressively acquired the pre-vvar leaders of Carinthian Slovenes. The most evident expression of the activity of the »Centre« is the »Carinthian Declaration« from summer 1944.