Kočevski Rog massacre
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The Kočevski Rog massacre was a series of massacres near Kočevski Rog in late May 1945 in which thousands of members of the Nazi Germany–allied Slovene Home Guard were executed, without formal charges or trial, by special units of the Yugoslav Partisans; other victims were Croat, Serb and Montenegrin collaborationists as well as much smaller numbers of Italian and German troops.[1]
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Kočevski Rog massacre | |
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Part of the Bleiburg repatriations | |
Location | Kočevski Rog, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
Date | May 1945 |
Target | Slovene Home Guard, Croat, Serb, and Montenegrin collaborationists, and some Italian and German troops |
Deaths | 10,000+ |
Perpetrators | Yugoslav Partisans |
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