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color:black" lang="EN-US">or the communist revolution during the war, civilians of German
descent or simply individuals accused or suspected of anti-communism. The purpose was to physically eliminate any
potential political opposition, on the pretext of collaboration with the enemy.
The Yugoslav National Army executed more than 80,000 - mostly Croat, German
and Slovenian - prisoners in the Celje area, without any judicial process. The
bodies were buried in hidden mass graves in Celje; the exact number is still
not known. At the concentration camp at Teharje, some 5,000 Slovenians, hundreds of them
minors, were murdered within two months after the end of the war, again without
trial. Furthermore, refugee trains carrying German civilians from the
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