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Teharje camp

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Teharje camp was a World War II prison camp near Teharje, Slovenia, organised by Nazi Germany and used after the war by the Yugoslav Partisans.

In 1943, German forces built a military camp for approximately 500 people in Teharje, including six residential barracks and ten other buildings. Towards the end of the war the Germans used the camp to hold prisoners that had participated in the defense of Celje, and the camp was abandoned for a short time after the war.

The camp was reactivated by the Yugoslav communists at the end of May 1945 to accommodate former members of the Slovene Home Guard and others that had collaborated with the Germans, as well as civilians that had fled before the advancing Yugoslav People's Army to Allied camps in Austrian Carinthia. On 31 May 1945 the entire 2nd Assault Battalion headed by Vuk Rupnik was brought to Teharje, and in the first days of June 1945 approximately 3,000 members of the Slovene Home Guard joined them. It is estimated that the postwar authorities executed approximately 5,000 internees of Teharje without trial during the first month or two after the Second World War.

A memorial park designed by the architect Marko Mušič was built on the site of the camp in 2004.

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Teharje camp Wikipedia