On Slovenian territory, the new communist authorities carried out mass extrajudicial killings of tens of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians of various nationalities after World War II. The Register of Covert Mass Graves currently lists 681 covert mass graves, located in specially dug pits, mines, shelters, anti-tank trenches, and karst sinkholes. First, I presented the history of the research, recording, and arrangement of covert graves in the Republic of Slovenia from the establishment of the independent state to the present day. covert graves, once confirmed by probing, are marked and arranged in nature. As part of this master’s thesis, I reviewed the condition of these graves in the area of six administrative units in Styria (Celje, Slovenske Konjice, Slovenska Bistrica, Maribor, Ruše, Ptuj). It turned out that some graves need restoration and that some data in the Register of Covert Mass Graves need to be updated. I also briefly presented all the recorded graves in this area that have not yet been investigated or confirmed by probing. In the field, I obtained some new information from locals regarding some of these graves. I also included descriptions of thirteen new alleged covert mass graves in Styria, which are not yet listed in the Register of Covert Mass Graves. These graves are located in Frankolovo, Straža pri Novi Cerkvi, Polajna, Stranice, Tremerje, Špitalič, Hruševec pri Šentjurju, Malečnik and Velika Raven. For the area in question, I also reviewed parish chronicles for the period from 1941 to 1946, the Parish Census of 1956, and the visitation records of the bishop’s visitations of parishes for the period from the end of World War II to 1950. In the chronicle of the Stranice parish, there is a record of a covert mass grave in Stranice, and the same covert mass grave is also recorded in the Parish Census of Stranice. Covert mass graves are also mentioned in the Parish Census of Laporje.
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