By selecting enemies from the ranks of the Communist Party, a Yugoslav version of the Stalinist show trials was launched.
[2] In the preparations for the trials, a large number of writers, physicians, politicians, and engineers were arrested without knowing whether they would be accused or merely used as witnesses.
[3] The defendants in the trials were forced to confess to being Nazi spies while imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, collaborating with the Gestapo, and working for Western powers after the Second World War in order to undermine socialism.
[5] The total number of people executed, the specific dates when they were killed, and where their bodies were disposed of remains unknown.
[2] The sentences handed down in the trials were reversed in April 1986 at the Tenth Congress of the League of Communists of Slovenia.