In my master's thesis I wanted to present the events that took place on Slovenian territory during the occupation that occurred in 1941. Mainly, I wanted to focus on the Litija area in the first part, and the Gabrovka area in the second part of my thesis. I wanted to research what happened in this area when the Slovenian territory was divided among four occupiers, what the attitude of the occupiers towards the civilian population was, and what consequences the occupation itself brought. The happenings in the Litija area were quite eventful, as well as in Gabrovka, which I paid slightly more attention to since it is my hometown.
Since the Litija area up to Javorski Pil belonged to the German, and the Gabrovka area from Pil onwards belonged to the Italian occupier, I presented the events under both occupation systems in this assignment. The German occupier very quickly began with a good organization of outposts in the Litija area so that they could control the strategic points in said area. The Italian occupier, however, was much milder when it came to controlling the area, which was also reflected in the relations with the local population. The state of war soon brought national liberation ideas and the organization of the OF and partisan troops, which stood against the occupiers with various actions.
In the final part of the thesis, I wanted to present the memories of the locals in the Gabrovka area, which represent the period of occupation in a different, more personal way. I decided to do this partly because my family was directly involved in the war in many ways.
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