List of massacres in Slovenia

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Slovenia or its territory (numbers may be approximate):

NameDateLocationDeathsNotes
Marburg's Bloody Sunday 27 January 1919 Maribor 9 – 13 civilians of German
ethnic origin
Possibly accidental or German provoked
Celje prison massacre22 July 1942 Celje 100 Slovenian civilians
Maribor prison massacre 2 October 1942 Maribor 143 Slovenian civilians
Frankolovo crime 12 February 1945 Frankolovo 100 Slovenian civiliansMembers of the Wehrmacht killed one hundred Slovene civilians
Pečovnik Mine massacre May 1945 Pečovnik Mine, Zvodno 12,000 Croats civilians Yugoslav Partisans killed 12,000 Croats by forcing them into the mine and covering them with concrete
Teharje camp May 1945 - October 1946 Teharje 5,000It is estimated that the postwar authorities executed approximately 5,000 internees of Teharje without trial during the first month or two after the Second World War
Sterntal camp May - October 1945 Kidričevo 5,000
Barbara Pit massacre 25 May – 6 June 1945 Huda Jama, PR Slovenia 1,416Mass killing of prisoners of war of Ante Pavelić's NDH Armed Forces and the Slovene Home Guard, as well as civilians, after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia in an abandoned coal mine near Huda Jama, by the Yugoslav Partisans
Lokavec massacre 20 June 1945 Lokavec, Ajdovščina 5 - 7 Slovenian civiliansMurders of five to seven Slovenian civilians

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