The study deals with the Italian occupiers’ razzias in Ljubljana in 1942 which were intended to suppress the national liberation movement. By means of various sources from both Slovene and foreign archives, mostly the documents of the Italian occupiers, he presents in considerable detail the big nineteen-day razzia in February and March, the internation of officers and non-commissioned officers of the former Yugoslav army in March, a minor six-day razzia in April, another smaller one in the villages along the Sava in May, a big five-day razzia at the end of June and on July 1 and the so-called two-day »Christmas« one in December executed mostly by the Ljubljana White guards. In the above mentioned razzias the occupier captured and “verified" about 40,000 men; about 5,500 were arrested and taken to the Italian concentration camps.