MOBILISED INTO WEHRMACHT FROM UPPER CARNIOLA IN THE YEARS 1943-1945

After the beginning of the Second World War in Slovenia and the division of its territory, following the departure of the occupying military units the German occupying forces set up a civilian administration. The administrative unit, consisting of six former Gorenjska (Upper Carniola) districts, later transformed into three departments and the district of Dravograd, the municipalities of which were connected to the districts of Volšperk and Velikovec, was firstly headed by the Deputy Gauleiter of the Carinthian Gau, Franz Kutschera, and from December 1941 onwards, by Gauleiter Dr. Friedrich Rainer. The territory known as Southern Carinthia was part of the XVIIIth Military District.