P40

In Slovenia, the Germans devised a formula where 5 hostages would be shot for every killed Slovenian who cooperated with the Germans. How many hostages would be shot for every killed German soldier?

10 hostages
(3 points)

a.) 5 hostages

b.) 10 hostages

c.) 25 hostages

10 hostages
(2 points)

Frankolovo crime was committed in retaliation for a Slovenian Partisan’s ambush.

To retaliate, the Nazis gathered hostages from various prisons and hung them on trees along the road in Frankolovo. One was shot while trying to escape. How many hostages were killed?

a.) 50 hostages

b.) 100 hostages  

100 hostages  
(1 point)

Doživi zgodovino – obišči nas!
Feel the history – visit us!

On 7 February 1944, in the evening hours, a partisan security group from the Škofja loka area liquidated a German soldier in Stara Loka. The Germans blockaded the entire town and arrested a large number of men and women and took them to Begunje.
On 9 February, the rounded up Locians were transported to the Loka barracks and joined the partisans, activists and couriers from the Loka, Kranj and Begunje prisons who had been captured earlier. Here, all fifty hostages were sentenced to death. At noon, they were shot in groups of ten behind Kamnitnik. The dead hostages were first taken to Stara Loka and dumped in the road ditch in front of the house where the German soldier had been shot. The people of Loška bid farewell to the hostages with flowers and photographs. The hostages were then transported by the Germans to Begunje and buried in a common grave.
Among the hostages shot were 13 from Loška, 6 from the Škofja Loka area, 14 from other places in the current administrative unit of Škofja Loka and 17 from other parts of Slovenia. Among the hostages were 35 members of the OF(Liberation Front), mostly activists and informers, 9 captured partisans and 6 captured couriers of the G-9 courier relay line at Merlak in Žirovski Vrh.