Sterntal camp

It was a central collection point for the expulsion of ethnic German Donauschwaben from Yugoslavia after the Second World War.

In May 1945, under the direction of Aleksandar Ranković, the Yugoslav secret police (OZNA) established a concentration camp at the site to collect ethnic Germans from across Slovenia, especially from Lower Styria and Gottschee.

[2] Overcrowding and poor hygiene at the camp caused many of the inmates to die from amoebiasis and typhoid fever.

Tortures included forcing the prisoners to lie on the ground while their captors rode motorcycles over them.

[7] The Sterntal Concentration Camp was closed down in October 1945 through the efforts of the Red Cross, and most of the survivors were sent to Austria.