Kočevski Rog massacre
| Kočevski Rog massacre | |
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| Part of the Bleiburg repatriations | |
A pit where Yugoslav Partisans threw members of Croatian, Slovenian, and Serbian units executed without trial | |
| Location | Kočevski Rog, PR Slovenia, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Date | May 1945 |
| Target | Axis-allied Slovene Home Guard, Croats, Serbs, and Montenegrins, and some Italian and German troops |
| Deaths | 10,000+ |
| Perpetrators | Yugoslav Partisans |
| Part of a series on |
| Aftermath of World War II in Yugoslavia |
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| Main events |
| Massacres |
| Camps |
The Kočevski Rog massacre was a series of massacres near Kočevski Rog in late May 1945 in which thousands of members of the Nazi Germany–allied Slovene Home Guard were executed, without formal charges or trial, by special units of the Yugoslav Partisans; other victims were Croats, Serbs, and Montenegrins that had fought on the Axis side as well as much smaller numbers of Italian and German troops.