Slovenia during World War II (1941 - 1945)

Slovenia during the Second World War. What happened there? Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (known as Drava Banovina). After the German invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) Slovenia was partitioned by the Axis: the Hungarians, the Italians and the Germans. In the Italian zone the Slovenes set up the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation (OF) and its armed branch were the Slovene Partisans. There was also collaboration: the Italians set up the Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia (MVAC / White Guard) to combat the partisans. Later the Germans set up the Slovene Home Guard. The Yugoslav partisans liberated the country and the last battle occured mid-May 1945: the Battle of Poljana.
History Hustle presents: Slovenia during World War II (1941 - 1945).
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[@HistoryHustle]

Learn about other COUNTRIES IN WW2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYS1h4GIj8umra8

[@bodega7328]

Go to Kočevski Rog and similar places !

[@urhgale]

Almost everything was correct except one or two pronounces. Thanks for making a video about our little country.

[@altergreenhorn]

3:15 Not well known fact only 4 days after Hitler visited Maribor two young fellows (members of communist youth) burn down 2 germans police cars, right in the centre of town in Volkmer's crossing, unforetaly germans cought and shot them. Nevertheless they showed an attitude towards occupation forces which lead in to the liberation of the country without foreign forces which was a rarely thing back in the WWII Also the Slovenian was first in the world even before Jews to feel fascist regime. Namely after WWI the west gave part of slovenian land to the Italy, which resulted in oppression as soon as Mussolini come to the power, first Slovenian shot by Italian fascists died in 1930

[@HistoryHustle]

@@altergreenhorn Thanks for sharing this.

[@user-px9nd2uo3l]

@@altergreenhorn Most likely another made up commie story. The stuff we sang in songs we had to learn and declaim at school was ridiculous, straigh out of monthy pyton..

[@alexs7189]

As an Italian, I am very sorry for what my ancestors did to the Slovenes, and to the other peoples of the kingdom of Yugoslavia. No more war between our peoples and between our nations. 🇸🇮❤️🇮🇹

[@HistoryHustle]

Nice words. Thanks for your reply.

[@aleskosir2727]

Alex S. Yours warm kindness gives me hope for better world.

[@alexs7189]

@@aleskosir2727 Thank you for your kind words, greetings from Palermo, Sicily. Hvala za prijazne besede, pozdrav iz Palerma na Siciliji.

[@theboss19844]

No more brother wars, Europeans must stand together🤝

[@Arhpeco]

Thank you, but you do not have to feel sorry. Even if your relatives were involved in some war crimes you are personally not responsible. War is not black and white. Also in later stages and after the war, a lot of Italians and Germans relocated. The coastal area today is treated as bilingual. What we can build is a future of cooperative neighbors. Today Italians frequent our restaurants, and Slovenians frequent Italian fashion stores :).

[@tinekustec483]

I'm from Slovenia myself and I'm so grateful for this thank you so much man!

[@HistoryHustle]

Nice to read. Many thanks!

[@vitofercak7265]

Me to

[@dzg_ftbl2492]

@@vitofercak7265 same here

[@jettmthebluedragon]

I’m also part Slovenian from my dads side 🙂I’m on vacation right know in Italy and Slovenia 🙂some on my relatives are still alive 😐one is 90 years old 😳I was in a hotel in Slovenia and I left 2 ww2 books their at the hotel 😐I did it on purpose 😐as I would want those books to go to a ww2 museum in Slovenia if they have one 😓it’s just crazy to think about about 80 years ago today I would be in a war zone right now 😐2023-80=1943 😳this video hit me more personal as well 😐

[@nikmisakov6053]

Me too But RIP for those who died Four ur freedom🕊†

[@tilen1144]

Thank you for covering Slovenia , alot of people dont really know what tragedies happened. Lep pozdrav (greetings)

[@yumbam5546]

Small country that many in the world aren't aware of.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for your reply!

[@alexs7189]

🇸🇮❤️🇮🇹

[@aleskosir2727]

Thanks for the great presentation of the unfortunate WWII events of Slovenia. I would like to mention that in 42 and 43 the Italians started to be as cruel as Germans. There were several killings of civilians, among others they killed my father's uncles. They were arrested on the street on their way to work and shot the next day as hostages as a reprisal. My father's house was so close to the place where Italians shoot hostages in Ljubljana - as my father said they didn't dare to have opened the window due to shooting noise during the Italian annexation of WWII. Near the end of the war, an older half-brother (who was a sworn member of Domobranci, took my 17-year-old father to a military camp. He escaped and was later arrested by Domobranci. He had to join them otherwise he would have been sent to KC Dachau. At the end of the war, he escaped to Austria but was later returned to Yugoslavian partisans by the British. After the war, the communist kept my father in a communist camp Teharje and he was one of the few survivors of that camp due to the fact he was still not 18 years old. He couldn't finish school and find a job as a former anti-communist. It was a hard time for him, constantly arrested and interrogated... It changed for to better in the '60s when he moved away to another town. Also from my mother's side, it was hard. My grandmother was born Slovene in Italy near Trieste. After constant prosecution of the Slovenian minority in Italy after the start of Italian fascism, she was denied by Fascists to go to university. She had to escape to Yugoslavia at her 19 years due she spoke Slovenian as a private teacher. The black shirts (fascists) were after her and she escaped for her life. In 1927 she married my grandfather in Slovenia, whose mother was Austrian German, but my grandfather felt as Slovenian. After the Germans occupied that part where my grandparents lived, the SS soldiers came into the house to arrest my grandfather due he was a university professor and as Slovenian, he was a Nazi target. At that moment my grandmother made a protest as a (fake) Italian (she kept Italian papers), that SS couldn't take a husband to an ally Italian citizen. SS soldiers were confused and left. Many of his friends were shot by Nazis as hostages in nearby Begunje prison. Later he got German papers to stay - the Germans tried to get connected to local people and my grandfather knew many Germans from his study in Vienna and Münster (Germany). One of the grandfather German acquaintances had a son who was a high German officer in Slovenia. After 1943 my grandfather even got paper to collect Slovenian birth certificates and valuable documents. The father's pretext was how would the Nazis knew who is Arian if they destroyed all the Slovenian documents. During the war, he collected a full attic of golden valuables, paintings, valuable documents... The Germans would have been robbed or destroyed these artifacts. Somehow the Nazis tolerated him, luckily. At the end of the war, it started a communist regime. My grandfather was kicked from University because he kept going to church, he lost his job. His German mother was on the list to be expelled as a German from Yugoslavia. My grandfather somehow succeeded that she could stay until the end in Slovenia. Many German minority citizens were expelled. The history of this area during and after WWII was not happy. Many civilians lost life or were sent to prison camps (two of my relatives were arrested by Domobranci and sent to Dachau...) or expelled from their homes. We should not forget what extreme right or left regimes could do to people.

[@davidsradioroom9678]

@GreatEurasia Wow!

[@davidsradioroom9678]

Wow!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing these experiences. This gives us insights of how things were back then.

[@alexs7189]

As an Italian, I am very sorry for what my ancestors did to you. No more war between our peoples and between our nations.

[@aleskosir2727]

@@alexs7189 Yes, no more wars. I am sorry also for terrible things after WWII happened to Italian population too. Greetings to Italy.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Fascinating to see Slovenia's ww2 experience. Thanks for the video Stefan! Keep up the great work m8!

[@HistoryHustle]

Will do, m8! :)

[@crixusthenorman1603]

Thank you for these videos. I'm Canadian but my father was from Slovenia. My grandparents were Hungarian Slovenes. My grandfather was fighting the Nazis. My father told me some crazy stories about what my grandparents went through at that time. I'm very proud of them. Great channel and thank you for sharing!

[@HistoryHustle]

Nice to read, thanks.

[@Gaetano.94]

Live in Canada too and my mom is from Maribor, moved to Canada in 1990. My whole family is in Slovenia and Sicily from my dad.

[@antibejbi]

You did a really good job presenting a very complex part of Slovenian history in such a short, no-nonsense video. It's accurate and a great basis for non-slovenians to understand the basics if they wish to dive further into Slovenian WW2 history, which is very interesting and unique in many ways ;) My grandparents were part of resistance right there on the Pohorje hills behind you, above Maribor.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@medved7683]

I am glad to see my ancestors history throughly explained; as a Slovene-American I appreciate these historical videos about Slovenia.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read, thanks!

[@bread9815]

Can you speak slovenian?

[@medved7683]

@@bread9815 Bits and pieces my grandparents were fluent in it so they taught me a bit of it.

[@kristjan1338]

@@medved7683 Lepo pozdravljen!

[@NoName-re9dk]

Very interesting. Thanks for covering lesser known war stories.

[@HistoryHustle]

Cheers! I find these stories also interesting to cover. Glad you liked it!

[@mihaelzorko2182]

Žal smo edini narod v Evropi, če ne celo na svetu, ki smo še vedno v vojni sami med seboj..., to se tudi lepo vidi v politiki in ni videti konca tej norišnici... Dober prispevek someščan, bravo... :)

[@HistoryHustle]

"Unfortunately, we are the only nation in Europe, if not even in the world, that we are still at war with each other ..., this is also clearly seen in politics and there is no end in sight to this madness ... Good contribution fellow citizens, bravo"

[@alexs7189]

Besides, you Slovenes were the victims, each country had its collaborators, but not all of them were the same. Greetings from Italy, and sorry for the war.

[@stevebrindle1724]

History Hustle has done a comprehensive study of WW2 covering so much of the history of that terrible period of history that I would say to any history buff like me that this channel is all you need to watch to understand WW2 in all its complexity. Thank you for such a great channel!

[@niepowaznyczlowiek]

I'd like to challenge that, to truly learn and understand everything you also need to watch other channels and read historical works.

[@HistoryHustle]

Hey Steve, many thanks for watching and writing this message 👍

[@tandemis1]

The Hustle reaches Yugoslavia:) Groetjes uit Zagreb!

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome! Soon more from Zagreb!

[@alexs7189]

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[@jamesgibbs7872]

Your presentations are great! History and on location beautiful scenery is a winning combination - thank you for hard work and the sharing of your historical knowledge and insights on how events came about and evolved over time. You are a good man!

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for your kind reply, James!

[@RRRRefuelRideRace]

I agree. Have some videos on similar topic among "tourist attractions by bike". Feel free to check it. :)

[@szakachdekapolna4372]

From the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Italian Foreign Minister in WW2, it can be read that part of Slovenia under German occupation was in a much more difficult position than the part occupied by the Italians. The diary itself is a very valuable source of information. Greetings from Croatia

[@2nd_a_dad4791]

That’s an insightful book. I’ve got a copy of it and Albert Spier’s “Inside the Third Reich.” They’re both very informative.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sounds interesting!

[@alexs7189]

Hello, are you Slovenian?

[@szakachdekapolna4372]

@@alexs7189 no,Croatian.

[@alexs7189]

@@szakachdekapolna4372 Understood, I'm Italian, I'm very sorry for what the Italians did, in Croatia and Slovenia, during the Second World War.

[@Tigr62]

Pohorje is behind you, where Pohorski bataljon fell. Thank you for great video!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@danielgreen3715]

Its a very curious and sad story Stefan so thanks for sharing it with us as the History of these small but proud Nations weren't tought to us in school only as ' Generalities " or in passing yet these Nations were in an insidious position caught between two opposing ideologies! Thankyou

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying, Daniel! 👍

[@kampfgruppepeiper501]

That was a very well done video! I really appreciate the extra work you do and traveling to the destination that you are talking about! Thank you for being the best history teacher!

[@HistoryHustle]

Appreciate your reply 👍

[@aleksmalalan5478]

A really flawless presentation !!! Thank you for sharing to poeple this less known topic of Slovenes. Lep pozdrav

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks you Aleks!

[@gardreropa]

Great video, you covered all the essential topics and themes! (I would only add that Slovenia was liberated from the nazis in 1945 not only by the efforts of the Slovenian partisans but also by the non-negligible involvement of the partisans from other parts of Yugoslavia - for example, the capital Ljubljana was liberated by the 29th Hercegovina division - a fact that many would like to forget nowadays, it would seem...)

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. I stand corrected: I meant to say Yugoslav partisans instead of Slovene partisans. You're right.

[@sherirobinson6867]

Discovered History Hustle by accident today... New subscriber! Good job 👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read. Welcome to the channel! There's much content to find here.

[@sherirobinson6867]

@@HistoryHustle I'll be rummaging through the playlist in the future lol ... Saw some goodies there😊

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome thanks!

[@Hurb2]

I'm from Slovenia and it's nice to see you covering less known topics! :D

[@HistoryHustle]

Great 🇸🇮👍

[@RavenioTheHatamoto]

Short, clear, exhaustive. Good job!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks.

[@MjrCarnyx]

Excellent as always! Such a great way of explaining things. Not to long, not to detailed, just enough. Cheers

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks 👌

[@andychantrey9582]

Always good seeing your work budddy, thank you

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@mikewest5529]

Wow what a beautiful background!! Had a long day and this video was my pot of gold! Love all the little pieces of information that gets forgotten! What a hard a difficult time for all involved! Great production!

[@HistoryHustle]

Wait till you see the video on 18 September which has an even greater background. Again, thanks for your enthusiasm. I'm glad my videos are like a pot of gold for you. Best regards!

[@mosinnagant412]

Thanks. Another thorough history of a complex and complicated period, with so many factions fighting.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for replying!

[@spib65]

This was very interesting, many thanks, keep up the great work.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you!!

[@xvsj5833]

Excellent and interesting is how I would describe your research 🧐 Thank you for sharing 👍

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍 :)

[@matijaivanic9528]

So much history in 8 minutes, thank you. I live in Goriška region, the region that was given to italy as a reward after the I.world war. Under the italian rule it was a very dificul life for our grand parents. The slovene language was baned from schools and churches. And one of the first groups, who started to fight this oppression were called"the black brothers" (Črni bratje) It was a group of teen boys.Their fight started with printed pamphlets against fascist rule. In just few months they were captured by the fascist and one of them was tortured, by the fascist in the year 1931, till his death. The boy was only 14 years old, his name was Mirko Brezavšček. This just one of the examples how italian rule was not so harsh.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply and the additional insights.

[@matijaivanic9528]

@Aleš Ernecl razsvetli me, ker izgleda, da ne vem dovolj...

[@davethewastelander8326]

@Aleš Ernecl the Italian fascist party came to power in 1922

[@alexs7189]

Hi, as an Italian I am very sorry for what my ancestors did in Slovenia many years ago, may you forgive us. Greetings from Sicily.

[@chriswalkey4630]

The most amazing and wonderful traditional method sparkling wines come from Goriska Brda region.

[@t.jjohnson6317]

Another great vid. Big thank-you

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@Fr34k78]

I'm glad, that you came to my country - slovenia 😎

[@HistoryHustle]

A very nice and beautiful country.

[@alexs7189]

🇸🇮❤️🇮🇹 Sorry for the past.

[@downthetraintracks1999]

@@alexs7189 Trst lol

[@postthraumaticheamnesia]

@@downthetraintracks1999 trst je nas!

[@noname-pk6ez]

@@alexs7189 trst je nas

[@oxis77gas]

Greetings from Slovenia(Maribor) .

[@HistoryHustle]

🇸🇮👍

[@KIARA5140]

Thank you so much for short but meaningful summary of ww2 events in our country. I really appreciate the time you have taken to study the history of our country. In Slovenia there goes saying that if you have neighbours as we do, you do not need enemies. Please make the second video too.

[@HistoryHustle]

I'll cover Croatia soon and I have another video that I recorded in Slovenia's capital about the Italian occupation of (parts of) Yugoslavia among which parts of Slovenia.

[@KIARA5140]

Thank you. I am looking forward 😊

[@gregabregar4105]

I'm from Slovenia and I'm sad to say that the question "who is on whose side" is still quite predominant in political circles and state governing in general. sadly, almost every debate watters down to "commies vs collaborators (or "privileged" vs "second-grade citizens")" argument. There was never an attempt to make peace, because most political parties accumulate votes that way. I dare say it is like a secret culture war. Fun fact: South African Air Force was quite busy in the region in the 1945. They were using Beaufighter heavy attack planes, because they were able to precision-strike targets with their unguided 6-pound rockets and 20mm auto cannons. There is a private museum in Idrija which tells the story, and even an on-line pictures archive (all of the strikes were photographed) on the web.

[@HistoryHustle]

Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing your insights on this.

[@alexs7189]

Hi, I'm Italian, I'm very sorry for what my ancestors did in Slovenia and Croatia during the Second World War. 🇸🇮❤️🇭🇷❤️🇮🇹.

[@d_rooster]

@@alexs7189 Don't hear that very often and @robertborak, despite him being completely innocent, admitting that it happened means a great deal to Slovenes.

[@alexs7189]

@@d_rooster Please, sometimes I hope to visit Slovenia, it looks like a beautiful country, greetings from Palermo in Sicily. Prosim, včasih upam, da obiščem Slovenijo, videti je kot čudovita dežela, pozdrav iz Palerma na Siciliji.

[@d_rooster]

@@alexs7189 you are very welcome :)

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Very educational! I am always very interested in 'the partisans'. Thank you! Greets, T.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@NiskaMagnusson]

please consider adding subtitles to your work, for someone with some mild hearing difficulties and my ear being untrained to your accent i do struggle to understand what you are saying, that being said i love the unique tiny bits of history you cover which few other English sources seem to care about

[@HistoryHustle]

Okay, I'm gonna look at it 👍

[@billd.iniowa2263]

I'm afraid my knowledge of geography in that part of Europe is sorely lacking. Its hard to sort out just who is who when borders have been contested for centuries. By studying WWII you end up studying times long passed. Thanx for shedding a bit more light on this region Stefan.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Bill! More of this will come!

[@weirdshibainu]

True and often overlooked. I sometimes think that most of pre ww1 conflicts were nothing more than family feuds and when the great houses fell, laid the groundwork for ww2. Oversimplifying on my part for sure, but the way these countries changed borders and sides was frenetic and at times based on long running personal animus.

[@eaglestrike6875]

Another great video! Keep up the great work.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Artur_M.]

Interesting video. Slovenia tends to get overlooked.

[@HistoryHustle]

I agree 🇸🇮👍

[@gumdeo]

Very interesting. Slovenia often tends to be ignored, even when discussing the war in Yugoslavia.

[@HistoryHustle]

I agree. Thanks for replying.

[@micksaitlik2693]

No srb population ..small % .meaning.... and yes they were luki not to have war... Croatia still suffering..

[@saellenx3528]

@@micksaitlik2693 has nothing to with Serbs but traitors at home that are keeping Croatia poor. In our History there were always domestic traitors who literaly f*cked us up for greed. Thats why we will never be normal and functional Country.

[@micksaitlik2693]

@@saellenx3528 question was slovenia being ignored during yugoslave war.... i said yes because they do not have a big srb population... . As 4 cro yes its fk political..wise..

[@saellenx3528]

@@micksaitlik2693 yes, but you said also "Croatia still suffering" so i concluded you meant because of war because that is not true. We repaired ourselves after the war quite nicely, its after 2009 when traitors took control that our true suffering began.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Very interesting history. Thanks for the education. Best wishes.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks you!!

[@notsosilentmajority1]

@@HistoryHustle 🙏

[@zulubeatz1]

Thanks to this channel my knowledge of European states during WW2 has increased immensely. Good work

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for your reply.

[@francrabic6855]

Thank you for very good presentation of circumstances in Slovenia during ww ll…

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you, Franc!

[@phil.m.b3853]

Hello, I love History and your channel is very interesting because there a lot of details and the format is excellent. I like and I subscribe, greetings from Switzerland.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great, thanks! And welcome to the channel.

[@carloscaraballo4121]

So KZbin send me from mixing paints for my miniatures to Slovenia during WW2... Alright, I'll watch.

[@HistoryHustle]

Great :)

[@stephmaccormick3195]

Great video!!

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@anonymousdetective3786]

Damn, Yugoslavia during WW2 is hella interesting. Great video! 👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks 👌

[@blazvogrin1406]

Love it that someone talks about ny country! Great job!

[@HistoryHustle]

You're welcome!

[@grassic]

extremely interesting

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome!

[@albertmarnell9976]

Stefan's ability to research detail and explain detail is above most people's heads.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply, Albert.

[@albertmarnell9976]

@@HistoryHustle And Thank YOU!...I'm curious...did you ever hear of Hofstra University? That is where I went in the 1970s in the business school. Hofstra University is located in the Village of Hempstead, New York. This is different than the Town of Hempstead which encompasses a much larger area.

[@HistoryHustle]

Never heard of this university.

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

Great work. BZ

[@HistoryHustle]

👌👌👌

[@The021254]

i am Slovenian. My grandmother vas passive/active partisan. She had little farm on Slovenj Gradec side of mountain Pohorje. I was to young (12) when she died. i wish i could talk to her about those rought times. All i know her story was: she deported radio to partisans in basket she covered it with bread and other stuff. German soldier stopped her but they did found the radio. my mother was born in 1945. After the victory in war it began the after war killings. The own father put pistol on my mothers head and want to shot her (he sad: such are the times). Grandmother succsesfully stopped him. They got divorced. and there is one great story that i didn't know and in the school didn't teach us. it is called: Vranov let (there is the book with that name: A Hundred Miles As the Crow Flies by Ralph Churches and documentary).

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for taking the time to write the history of your grandmother. May she rest in peace.

[@i_inject_mercury1930]

(he sad: such are the times) True words

[@vitruvianman7170]

Thankyou so much for this. I have married a Slovenian and am really interested in the history of the country but find it hard to get anything in English.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for your reply.

[@blazbabic7435]

Slowinsko - Northern start of the Amber Road kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDXlZaNm7qrobM

[@blazbabic7435]

1/4 Dr. Cyril A. Hromnik, Univerza na Primorskem, 7.6.2013: Sloveni, Slovaki, kje so vaše korenine? Slovenes, Slovaks, where are your roots? english-slovenian transcript here: Sloveni, Slovaki, kje so vaše korenine? in pdf ...at... korenine.si kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIG7lpmqr5eZgac

[@jerranty7412]

As a guy from Maribor I instantly recognised the locations.

[@tonymarshmarsh9176]

This guy is a superb presenter. Knows his stuff and makes it so interesting 🙂

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Tony!

[@deg6788]

Am Slovenian... Thanks brother

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read. Thank you for replying!

[@zorankalina6100]

Slovenia today is far most developed country from all other ex Yu republics. Relaxed...tolerant...realy nice people...exeptional nature..culture...vines&food....all cool🙂👍 And..I am so happy for it Best Croatian neighbour We go there...mostly for snow Slovenians come here...mostly because of Adriatic In all Perfect neighbour All the best from Cr🌞atia 🙂🍀🍾⛱ On a wey..probably something compareble like Belgian/Netherland...but more simple🤪 A lot of mutual simpaties🙂 Sure,sory on my english....should be better

[@HistoryHustle]

Great country 🇸🇮👍

[@zorankalina6100]

@@HistoryHustle sure it is....🙂👍

[@mnbvcxyyxcvbnm7946]

Slovenia should deport all yugos (exept croats) and italians become more right wing socially and focus primarly on herself and her population we have shown to be great people but other people and their ideology keept us down

[@mik5465]

Nice video

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks.

[@kj134]

Wow! Very independent and accurate coverage. It is almost exactly like what we have learned in school. Speaking of school; it was nice to see my former grammar school in this video - Prva gimnazija Maribor aka “The Beauty on the Maister square”😉

[@HistoryHustle]

Ah cool. Thank you for your reply. Glad you liked the video. Cheers!

[@kj134]

@@HistoryHustle instant subscribe. Thank you for the video

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@realkekec4028]

I'm from Slovenia,and i like this video.Great presentation of our history. I'm also veteran from 10 day war for slovene independence and i wish that war never again starts in my country.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@alexs7189]

Greetings from Italy, and sorry for the war. 🇸🇮❤️🇮🇹

[@PsyMOONze]

War for slovenian independence? :-D

[@johnthomson6507]

Thanks great things like this are covered. Yugoslavia 44-45 is a relatively undercovered topic.

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes I've noticed. Think that is because it's fairly complicated. Hope to cover more in the future. Thanks for replying.

[@Super-Zunzara]

Name of the channel explains the channel very accurate

[@HistoryHustle]

😎👍

[@tealeafandco]

Nice view 😁👍

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Mr.Zoomy.]

Love your content, you should do a video on the only occupied part of the UK during WW2 - The Channel Islands, some fascinating stories and preserved German structures still intact!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. Hope to travel to these islands one day.

[@rsb67]

Wow! I’m confused so guess I understand why some Slovenians were confused about who was whom doing what while all the many political forces were pressing in! I’ll need to watch this again, and wait for your next since I don’t know so much about this area (except knowing a Slovenian woman in London the year I lived there). Thanks so much. Your summer research is a great addition!

[@HistoryHustle]

I understand and I believe this is the 'simplyfied' version. Thanks for watching & commenting!

[@VendPrekmurec]

Bedankt for your review of my country

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome, you're welcome. Hope you liked it!

[@unlearningcommunism4742]

Thanks God you wrote in English, it would be impossible to understand Prekmur-ian XD

[@HistoryHustle]

Haha, you got it 👍

[@attkattk1074]

im original yugoslavian from serbian mother and croatian father and i was born and i live in slovenia.....i like your docu.its real,no lies and no propaganda...yugoslavian brotherhood and unity is still alive here....history hustle,thank you so much for this man!btw.my grandmother was partizan and lock up in womens concentrate logor camp -rawensbruck/germany.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply and sharing this.

[@yuricosmo7775]

Stefan should enter Dutch politics and become Minister of Education, Culture and Science, then move on to lead EACEA. Without doubt the most outstanding candidate! His immense knowledge and ability to correcty pronounce in a multitude of languages is admirable!

[@HistoryHustle]

Lol. No politics for me!

[@brankodrljaca1313]

I would like to share a little known detail. At 0:33 you see a red spot in mid of Slovenia? That is Kocevje that was pre WW2 populated by German colonists. In WW2 Kocevje was annexed by Italy, meaning those Germans were meant for relocation. Now, it wasn't as bad as it was for Slovenians, who often had children stolen for adoption by suitable nazi families in Reich, but did rise few eyebrows. Remaing Germans even supported OF, which was strange considering Volksdeutschers in rest of Yugoslavia were heavily nazified even before the war and helped invading force in 1941 as paramilitia (and later joined SS in large numbers). After the war, that desolated mountainous area was used by partisans for mass executions of collaborators, Slovene Home Guards but also Serbian Ljotic Corps and Croatian Ustasha. It is estimated that in 2 largest pits there might be thousands victims.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting to read, thank you for taking the time to share this with us.

[@ozowizo37]

greetings from a part Slovenian, part Ukraine dutch fellow! It has to do everything with ww2 and I like your videos. Happy to share some stories from my grandparents about those days. Keep it up 👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for your reply!

[@NoobGyver]

my grandpa was 7 at the time at the time and he told me many stories about how he discovered several unexploded bombs and how the railway connection running from Trieste to Vienna was bombed pretty intresting stuff

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@ottodachat]

thanks for this video, interesting topic & I had no idea how the Slovenes suffered under all their occupiers, especially from the Nazis. It would be an interesting video re: Slovenia under Tito, or was Slovenia independent post WW2? thanks!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. I made a video about Tito. Won't cover any post-war Balkans anytime soon, sorry.

[@nylixneylix8785]

Independent in 1991.

[@reneyko12]

Hello, thanks for covering the Slovenia durring world war 2. Wanted to write a sad but funny thing, my grandmother's uncle was brought to Hoče by germans, where he had to dig his own grave and after the labor was done he was shot on spot, years later I found out while I was in relationship with my ex gf that also my her grandmother's uncle was in the same grave, and perhaps shot even the same day or same time (unknow details).

[@HistoryHustle]

Bizarre! Thanks for sharing.

[@justmeandmyrucksack]

Hi. Thank you for this video. Can you tell me where Bovaslavina is? Only came across this geographical note once and am having trouble what this person was writing on his U.S. draft card. Is it Bova AND Slovenia somewhere around 1894? And if you have any info regarding how northern Italy area called Faver, Italy got it's name?

[@av7987]

Slavina is a small village in Slovenia near road to town Postojna. Bova in Slovenian language means we (me and you - two person) will....( do something in future ?).

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

A guy on my baseball team told me that his grandfather lived in Croatia all his life, but changed nationalities four times. Also, glad you mentioned Mihailovic (sp?). I read The Forgotten 500 and found him to be a hero.

[@BokicaK1]

Read more books. Perhaps memoirs of German diplomat Herman Neubacher who plotted with Mihailovic joint resistace to Yugoslav partisans

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. The story of Mihailovic is big and very interesting. Hope to cover that in the future.

[@BokicaK1]

@@HistoryHustle beware. Revisionists want to whitewash his biography, but then how can they explain Mihailovic's negotiations with Neubacher's delegate or Milan Nedić. Neubacher also have tendency to portray Mihailovic in better light, despite confirming many charges against Mihailovic. I also read a book of former 'ljotićevac' Bosko Kostić called 'Za istoriju naših dana'. Basically, he confirms what Neubacher says: Mihailović is a trecheorus crook.

[@demonprinces17]

@@BokicaK1 and Tito was a saint

[@BokicaK1]

@@demonprinces17 he wasn't a saint, but Axis didn't supply and lead his troops...

[@marcomambretti5922]

Last summer I visited Slovenia, a very beautiful nation. I was impressed from the history of the maire of Lubjana who committed suicide rather than start to work with the italian occupation force... Marco

[@HistoryHustle]

Surely is impressive yes. Thanks for sharing this.

[@tonypyare]

were you really standing infront of that building? it looks like a green screen was behind you hahahaha great content tho i love it

[@HistoryHustle]

Lol! I was there in location.

[@ostiariusalpha]

The strange effect is just an artifact from the camera keeping two objects at different distances in focus.

[@tilengradic2088]

Hvala (Thank you)

[@HistoryHustle]

You're welcome.

[@dadob8458]

I grew up in ex Yugoslavia, never learned this in school, thank you for this

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for replying!

[@tombombadil9123]

1:59 that's the Petrovaradin fortress on the Danube in Vojvodina.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@petar7369]

In Serbia.

[@sergi7071]

As an italian having his grandfather into the partisan movement against fascists it makes me feel bad thinking that we occupied such a lovely country like Slovenia. Hope we all learn from history and there won't be any other war between brothers.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your honest reply.

[@aleskosir2727]

Thanks for the kind words. Long live brotherhood betwen neighbous. ❤ It

[@datbo1]

glad to see someone cover the occupation of my homeland thoroughly

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching!

[@hermanthegerman8587]

The Soviets did enter Slovenia though through Prekmurje in fact my family helped them. There is also a monument in Murska Sobota.

[@HistoryHustle]

Okay! Thanks for sharing.

[@mariyanadobreva8724]

This excellent video covers so many aspects of the suffering of this small nation in WW2. The Italians were generally lenient, compared to the Germans, at least in Europe (Libya and Ethiopia were an entirely different story). But in Slovenia, unfortunately, they committed many atrocities. I believe that the Germans also abducted many Slovenian children for their infamous Lebensborn program. The memories of the occupation remained alive long after the war ended. I remember vividly a small episode of my childhood. On our return from a trip in Europe, we were stuck at the Austrian-Yugoslav border, with countless cars and lorries. My mother greeted the Slovene customs officer in Serbo-Croatian and he told her to pass right away. She felt uneasy and pointed at the huge car and the man inside it, before us in the line, and said: "Ali gospodin ćeka"(But the gentleman is waiting).The Slovene remained unmoved: "Gospodin je nemac, nek ćeka."(The gentleman is German, let him wait.)

[@HistoryHustle]

Very interesting to read, thank you for sharing this.

[@mariyanadobreva8724]

@@HistoryHustle Thank YOU.

[@sjsjjs4153]

my grandfather was an Serb who lived here in Slovenia he so when the german came he was taken by them and sent to the normady also being part of the D-DAY so when the allies naval invaded normady he surrended to them and then he was back to Yugoslavia and fight for Slovenian Partisans.He has died now by he has a huge respect by me and he will always be rememberd

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@trebor9827]

Serbs in Slowenia were not the same as Serbs at NDH, they were folowers of monarhistick ideology, they were not communists!!

[@sjsjjs4153]

@@trebor9827 Ohhh I also have to mention he was half slovenes but there were still Serbia who followed the Communist movments

[@trebor9827]

@@sjsjjs4153 Serbians were not comunists, they had their own borgua class.Tito was Croat, working class herro and cominterna terrorist...

thank you

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@arnarninson4413]

such a lovely spot!!!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Sure is :)

[@tonycrowson2755]

Nicest country I've ever been to .beautifully clean.

[@HistoryHustle]

Agree.

[@gportech]

We have such a tough history as a nation… The divide between those who opposed the Partisans and those who supported them is still visible today. But I simply can’t believe that there are so many ignorant people out there today who support Hitler and his actions even though he sent hundreds of thousands of Slovenes to die in concentration camps… truly unbelievable

[@HistoryHustle]

You mean in Slovenia? That's terrible. Well, everyone supporting Hitler I'd say, that is terrible.

[@gportech]

@@HistoryHustle yep, it’s that terrible… and it’s becoming viewed as something normal. I’d say it’s either by people who don’t know their history, or by people whose ancestors were Domobrans or the White Guard

[@alexs7189]

It would not make sense, given that Hitler hated the Slavs, the speech may be a little different in Croatia, it would be as if someone in Slovenia supported the Italian fascists, it would not make sense.

[@mateokarlvonpavlovic8295]

@@HistoryHustle many People love Tito and at the same Time they say that Hitler. Was the gretasr prson Eve lived. Its sad But True.

[@trebor9827]

There are many ignorant people today who support Tito' actions even though he sends thousand of Sllovens in mass killing camps or underworld...trully!

[@ivefabris7690]

Next Istria, very difficult and specific history of that part of Europe, if you pass it will be a pleasure to guide you :)

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps in the future some day 👍

[@basierterberber6345]

Maribor (Marburg an der Drau) was one of german cities in slowenia. Today in Marburg an der Lahn is a Mariborer Straße (maribor street)

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@mitjapintar4609]

Maribor is and was Slovenian city, it was never German or Austrian. In fact many Austrian citys were Slovenian. We lost alot of land in ww1 as reward for countrys to surrender. Sometimes we wonder did we lose the war or tripact did? i don't care at all, what is it is. So no you only game Maribor german name. Maribor was settled long before germans pushed so south, like 5000y ago.

[@basierterberber6345]

@@mitjapintar4609 thats a stupid argument from a primitiv nationalist. In the history a Land or City in this example was often be a Part of another country,people and culture.

[@av7987]

If you claims that some German minority lived there in the past is true like is true that Celovec/Klagenfurt and Gradec/Graz was somethimes in the past most populated Slovene cityes. In 16 century begun intense German colonisation by Germanic feudalic authority rules of Slovene lands wich had been on two thirds of south territory of today Austria populated by Slovenes by settling German Bavarian population mostly in the cyties to create a Germanisation of Slovene lands. This Germanisation continues also on territories of today Slovenia. But in this case German settlers was in reality minority in towns but they have most benefides from Kaiser and Austrian German authorities because Slavic nations in AH where second class citysens and they did not have same rights like Germans. This is also the reason of speedy colapse AH imperium after ww1 because Slavic nations did fight for their indenpedance. Aspeccialy this was the case in Slovenia and town Maribor/Marburg on Drau in where general Maister with help Slovene volunteer soldiers expelled Austrian German soldiers from the Maribor.

[@makedon888]

Similar story as in Macedonia, every invader who came in wanted to dominate and assimilate local population, never ending story of human misery...

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope to cover that in the future one day.

[@makedon888]

@@HistoryHustle Please do so...

[@marcoskehl]

The present map of the Balkans, are very similar to the delineated by the III Reich. History in cycles... Dank je! 🇳🇱 Obrigado! 🇧🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you! Balkan is extremely interesting.

[@av7987]

If you interested, you might find some histories pictures about this subject on this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6mVp3qbbJh9bdU

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@stephanottawa7890]

Very interesting, Stefan, but what about the Gottscheer Germans? Do you know what happened to them? Stephan in Ottawa

[@HistoryHustle]

Can't say I have. Feel free to share information about these people.

[@valentintapata2268]

They were being relocated into Germany by the Germans already during the war, after the war many of those who were left emmigrated by their own volition, or were being denied citizenship by the Yugoslav goverment. Some also stayed and were assimilated.

[@stephanottawa7890]

@@HistoryHustle The ethnic Germans were made all collectively guilty of all war crimes by Tito and his thugs which formed the "government" at the end of the war (sort of like the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan today and forming a government). Accept for the fortunate few, as Mr. Tapata implies, who were able to escape with the German troops, all others (even German-speakimng communists) were rounded up and sent off on the death march. The death march was a pan-Yugoslav tour, but it was not one that you would ever wish to go on. What happened was that everyone was marched off from town to town, region to region, and anyone who fainted, fell down or even set down for a moment was shot by the partisans who guarded the columns. The only food or water available was that which was offered secretly by villagers along the way (This shows that there were still good people in Yugoslavia and communism had not yet driven out Christianity or any sort of sense of brotherly love). Needless to say, most of the marchers died of hunger or were shot and kicked into the ditch . The few who did survive the months long ordeal were either placed in prison camps or they managed to escape and some lucky ones did get across the mountains to Austria and eventually West Germany. The children who survived were adopted by Slavic communist families and as Mr. Tapata suggests, they were assimilated. The method used that was that every time they spoke German or made the sign of the cross, they were beaten by their adoptive "family". I have met people who survived this horrid fate as well and they later escaped to Canada. They could barely speak German and had to relearn all the basic things of Christianity because their adoptive families had been so thorough with the whip that they had erased almost every memory from their minds of their real parents, their first language and their faith. Here in Canada we were fed a very false, candy-coated version of history in school because Trudeau the first was a great friend of Tito and even went to his funeral. The reality was that he was a very cruel man who knew how to smile and he entertained well his foreign guest at his private Adriatic island. Hence Pierre like many others was fooled by his satanic charm. How much did that contrast with the reality of the death march!!! Stephan in Ottawa

[@valentintapata2268]

@@stephanottawa7890 Mostly bollock. Mayority of the Gottscheer Germans were already in Germany before the war ended. But I wonder, why, o why, were the Germans hated so much?

[@stephanottawa7890]

@@valentintapata2268 Not sure what in the world bollock means in polite English. Regardless, I have met many victims of Yugoslav partisan terror and Tito communism and that is what I am trying to add to the discussion. The victims need a voice, especially those who are left voiceless because of a bullet from a partisan gun. Hate against the Germans was something that was fanned by Tito and others. Of course, there were some collaborators with the Nazis invaders (and not exclusively German by any stretch of the imagination), but the German collaborators would have been a minority and this would have nothing to do with the children involved regardless of the stance of the parents. I will end here as I do not wish to be involved in any sort of foul play or language.

[@schwerpunkt7687]

Zivili Brace, Zivili Sestra!

[@HistoryHustle]

A song I believe.

[@schwerpunkt7687]

@@HistoryHustle long live my brothers, long live my sisters. Slovenian polka.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@matejpfajfar8039]

I come from an area of Železniki. (Occupied by Germans back then). Železniki are located in the waley, but some 3 kilometers or 2 miles on the north, there is a vilage od Dražgoše. That place is famous for the first armed comflict betwen Slovenians an Germans. The village was betrayed and 300 of our partisans armed with light weapons were attacked by a force of 4000 Germans with heavy cannons and relentles presure. Dražgoše are positioned on the Hill, from where you strategic owerlook on the waley and escape routh further north in the plato forest area. Partisans were keeping Germans at bay for 3 days, then they Head in the forest of Jelovica. Germans then took the village and as act of revenge killed 9 People living there. A tenth Man was an exeption, when he was standing before fireing squad he rolled on the ground and showed the Germans the meaning of speed. He got avay alive.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@matejpfajfar8039]

@@HistoryHustle Sorry for grammar mistakes. I was writing this on my phone.

[@HistoryHustle]

No problem.

[@urosmusicfilmlifechannel1965]

Great work I must say, because people don't know much about the history of Slovenia (Yugoslavia) during ww2. Im from Prekmurje which was under Hungarian, later German rule and it was quite brutal here. My grandmother, who was Jewish was send to Auschwitz, and survived the war. Also my relatives was send to other K. Camps because they was educated & some also Jewish, we had big Jewish community in Prekmurje. Sadly not anymore... But that war is over and we need to have one Big Community of people (All the people of the world) we are all brothers!

[@HistoryHustle]

Very interesting to read. Thanks for your reply.

[@bernardogontijo3827]

Please do something on Czechoslovakia in WW2.

[@HistoryHustle]

One day.