In this bachelor's paper, the author compares the reactions of the Slovene and German-Austrian newspapers to the armed confrontation between German civilians and Slovene armed forces on 27 January 1919 in Maribor, and the consequences of this event. Firstly, he briefly lays out the historic relationship between the German and Slovene ethnic communities in the city of Maribor, and the events in the autumn of 1918, which play a key role in understanding the so-called Marburg’s Bloody Sunday and its placement in the history of Lower Styria and the broader region.
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