Lower Posavje region was split between three ocupators during the second world war. The Germans took the land on the left bank of Sava river and about 15km wide corridor in the right bank. The Italians got some south and south-west parts of the region, while some of the villages near Obrežje came under croatian state. The fact that three ocupators met in this part states that the region has an important strategic and transport location. Ocupators used it as an entrance to Balkan peninsula. German reich interpreted it as the most southeastern part of german cultural space, but the main problem was that the people were almost all Slovenians. The Germans started the germanification of the region by forcely exiling the Slovenians and settling the Germans from Kočevje region into freshly evicted homes. The exiled people were sent into Serbia and NDH at first, then they were transported into special camps in modern day Germany. The pepole of Posavje started to riot as soon as 1941, but the rebel groups were all beginners with lack of experience. In later years the corps, battalions and detachments were formed, the main units were forming in the Kozjansko part of the region. They were often cooperating with croatian partisans and for some time also with the elite XIV. divison while it was stationed in Posavje. After the war the partisans commited killings of emigrated croation soldiers, mostly in Mostec, but smaller burial grounds can be found all over the region. In order to keep the memory of the second world war events alive the people of Posavje made a lot of monumets and memorial statues. Most of them are the creation of local artists and are depicting the events and people connected to their local wartime history.
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