Baza 20 Memorial Site, Kočevski Rog

The numerous camps in the woods of Kočevski Rog were once the commanding structures of the National Liberation Movement of Slovenia in Second World War that organised first resistance there against Italian and German occupational forces already in August 1941. This region was the first liberated zone in under partisan command as early as May 1942 and Kočevski Rog became centre of armed resistance. Partisan hospitals, workshops, schools, printing works and warehouses were erected in this deep woods. From April 1943 most important headquarters were in Baza 20; seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia and the Executive Committee of the Liberation. At the end of year 1943, 26 barracks used to house some 140 fighters and politicians, among them also Edvard Kocbek and Boris Kidrič. Out of the numerous secretively built partisan structures and settlements scattered in the Kočevski Rog forest, had most of them code name Baza (Base) plus number: 15, 15a, 21, 80, etc. Only Baza 20, Jelendol and Zgornji Hrastnik field hospitals, are preserved. They have status of cultural and historical monuments of national importance since 1952. In 1995 a permanent exhibition in barrack 16 was opened presenting history of this memorial site, its significance an role. Since 1998 another exhibition opened and is on display in Barrack 22 with the topics on partisan workshops, health care and the operation of some sections of the Slovene National Liberation Council in the Kočevski Rog. Visitors can also see short introductory documentary on Baza 20 in Lukov dom near the site.

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Baza 20 web page
Baza 20 on Burger.si virtual panoramas website
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Front_of_the_Slovenian_People Liberation Front of the Slovenian People
Yugoslav Partisans

Baza 20 Memorial Site, Kočevski Rog

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