To Joe Bison:
…the Slovenian Home Guard
was a Nazi auxiliary unit commanded by
German officers that swore allegiance
to Adolf Hitler among other things.
THE ABOVE SENTENCE INDICATES A LIMITED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HOME GUARD SITUATION. PLEASE READ BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY MARY GRABAR AS WELL AS METOD MILAC’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT AS A STUDENT BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER WORLD WAR II. I BELIEVE AFTER YOUR READING YOU WILL CONCLUDE: THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTISANS COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS BEFORE HITLER ATTACKED RUSSIA, AND THEREAFTER, FROM TIME-TO-TIME, AS WAS CONVENIENT FOR THE COMMUNISTS AND NAZIS; THAT THE SLOVENIAN HOME GUARD WAS NOT CREATED BY THE NAZIS; THAT THE HOME GUARD SPONTANEOUSLY AROSE IN THE VILLAGES AS AN INDISPENSABLE “HOME MILITIA” TYPE, SELF-DEFENSE RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENT ACTION OF TITO’S COMMUNIST PARTISANS; THAT THE VIOLENT OPPRESSION BY THE PARTISANS AGAINST THE VILLAGERS WAS FAR GREATER THAN THAT OF THE GERMANS AGAINST THE VILLAGERS WHICH COMPELLED VILLAGERS TO CHOOSE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES BY FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AGAINST THE COMMUNIST PARTISANS;
THAT OVER TIME THE HOME GUARD GREW AND BECAME MORE ORGANIZED AND RECEIVED ASSISTANCE TO DEFEND AGAINST THE COMMUNIST PARTISANS FROM THE GERMAN ARMY; THAT THE NAZIS ATTEMPTED TO HAVE THE HOME GUARD SIGN AN ALLEGIANCE TO HITLER BUT (AS I RECALL) IT WAS REFUSED BY HOME GUARD MEMBERS (SEE JOZE RANT’S BOOK FOR CLARITY);
These were not freedom fighters by any
stretch.
THEY WERE FREEDOM FIGHTERS TO THE EXTENT THEY PROTECTED HOME AND HEARTH. SLOVENIA AND YUGOSLAVIA WERE NOT MILITARY PRIORITIES FOR EITHER ALLIES OR AXIS POWERS.
You really had to watch over
your shoulder when these type of units
were around especially if you were
Jewish or Orthodox Christian.
PLEASE PROVIDE SOME REFERENCE FOR THIS STATEMENT. I KNOW THAT LJUBLJANA HAD A JEWISH SECTION BEFORE WWII, BEFORE THE NAZI OCCUPATION, AND BEFORE THE COMMUNIST REGIME. DOES LJUBLJANA OR SLOVENIA TODAY HAVE A JEWISH MINORITY? I DON’T THINK SO. WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
AS TO ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS, I CANNOT COMMENT.
MY FATHER, MY UNCLE, MY FATHER-IN-LAW, MY COUSIN, AND MANY OTHERS I KNOW WERE MEMBERS OF THE HOME GUARDS. SOME HAD BEEN DECEIVED INTO JOINING THE PARTISANS WHILE OTHERS WERE FORCIBLY CONSCRIPTED BY THE PARTISANS. ONCE, HOWEVER, THEY SAW THE INHUMANE VIOLENCE, THEY ESCAPED AS SOON AS THEY COULD, AND WENT OVER TO JOIN THE HOME GUARDS.
MY FATHER WAS WOUNDED RESCUING HIS COUSIN IN A FIRE FIGHT AGAINST PARTISANS WHILE DEFENDING HIS VILLAGE. FURTHER, MY FATHER TRANSPORTED THREE DOWNED ALLIED AIRMEN WITH THEIR RADIO THROUGH A VALLEY THAT WAS INFESTED WITH GERMAN TROOPS. THE AIRMEN WERE SECRETED IN HAY ON A HAY WAGON. MY OTHER UNCLE, A TAILOR, WAS NEUTRAL. THE PARTISANS CAME ONE DAY, FORCIBLY MARCHED HIM AND A FEW OTHER LOCAL VILLAGERS A LONG WAY INTO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE THEY WERE EXECUTED. A LOCAL COMMUNIST, ARMED WITH A MACHINE GUN, CAME ONE DAY TO MY FATHER’S HOME, AND THREATENED TO KILL MY GRANDPARENTS AND AUNTS UNLESS THEY DISCLOSED THE LOCATION OF MY FATHER’S MOTORCYCLE WHICH HE THEN STOLE.
This is not to excuse the communists
who of course were murdering b******s,
but this example is equivalent to siding
with Nazi Germany over the Soviet Union
because it was an evil entity. Yugoslavia
if I can use that name, was simply a place
of pure evil during WW2 with no sanctuary
for the innocent.
CONSEQUENTLY, A PERSON HAD TO CHOOSE TO DEFEND HIMSELF OR DIE. THIS IS NOT CHOOSING THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. RATHER, IT IS CHOOSING THAT WHICH IS GOOD – LIFE.
