[SLOVENSKO]
German Third Reich, which was the military superpower of that time, attacked
the territory of Slovenia in April 1941. The German Army occupied the Slovenian
regions of Upper Carniola, Carinthia, Styria and the part of Lower Carniola
with about 800.000 residents. Slovenians had decided for self-defence and
the fight against the Fascism and Nazism. Slovenian Army was organized.
The Battle of Drazgose was nearby the Zelezniki in Upper Carniola region,
between ninth and eleventh January 1942. It was the first Slovenian frontal
battle (The Cankar battalion) in the Second World War against the Nazi
millitary division. The armament was very poor with no artillery and very
small number of machine guns. The only advance was strategic position on
"Bickova skala" (rock rising). Even the numerical superiority and the modern
armament of Nazis the frontal battle last three days. The myth of the Nazi
superiority was broken and the genocide was slow down.
The battle displayed that in that time Slovenian Army was not prepared
for a frontal battles so the military tactic moved to partisan tactic until
the year 1943 when Italy capitulated. Slovenian Army got the proper armament
and had liberated Slovenian ethnical territory until the May 1945 |
