This master's thesis introduces the life of the Zadravec family through letters sent to the employee at the family business and friend Vera Pušnik while exiled to Germany during World War II. The first part of the thesis includes a statistical overview of the letters and introduces three generations of the Zadravec family that established the position the family held in 1941 when World War II broke out in Slovenia. The second part introduces resettlement plans of the Third Reich for the Slovene lands, through which the Zadravec family was resettled to Germany. The largest part of the thesis consists of a presentation of the daily life of the family, as they describe it through 120 letters and 44 postcards sent to Vera Pušnik from 1941 to 1945. A chronological overview of the letters leads us from the family’s internment in Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle camp in Schelklingen through three years spent in northern Bavaria near Probstzella, where Jurica Zadravec worked as a forced labourer in a local businessman's mill.
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