Slovenia Dismembered: Occupation Borders During the Second World War

The monograph puts events during World War II in Slovenia in the broader context of World War II in Yugoslavia and Europe. It opens with the historical development of borders in Slovenia till the end of World War II. It also discusses border psychology and demonstrates how it manifested itself in the case of Slovenia. The authors debate the decisions on borders made in Slovenia during World War II at the highest diplomatic level and the associated international treaties founded on the principle of the debellatio of Yugoslavia; they describe the military conquest of the territory and the marking of the occupied area in the field, where conflicts between the occupying forces occasionally took place; the demarcation of specific borders based on the work of boundary demarcation commissions (or, where no commission existed, based on arbitrary decisions made by local military commanders and officials); and the ways of fortifying the bor­ders. From the field research conducted by a research team, the authors attempted to extract common characteristics and differences between individual borders and individual occupation border regimes.

This book is part of research project Make this country German ... Italian ... Hungarian ... Croatian! The role of occupation borders in national politics and the life of the Slovenian population, shortly called Occupation borders.