Dr. Marjan Linasi
Forced Mobilization in Koroška
The German occupiers mobilized the people of Koroška into the Wehrmacht, numerous were added to local armed formations: attack formations – SA, general attack groups – Allgemeine SS, land watch – landwacht. According to so far collected data more than a thousand people (at least 1008) who lived in the area of Mežiška Dolina valley and Dravograd (between the Koroška regional border and the Austrian border) were mobilized into the armed forces of the Third Reich (German Army – Wehrmacht, armed attack groups – Waffen SS). Most were Slovene. The mobilizations started at the end of 1942 and at the start of 1943. The most complete – but definitely not completely accurate – list of those mobilized was made soon after the end for the war for municipality Črna¹. Based on this list, 224 people from the municipality were drafted into the German Army and the Reich Labour Service (RAD), 81 of those into the army (usually the two were connected). At the time, it was known that 5 died, 5 were missing (this data later changed). The archives of the Koroška Regional Museum, Slovenj
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