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This work by Maruša Nartnik, Peter Mikša is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
After the capitulation of Yugoslavia in 1941, Slovenian territory was split by 4 countries - Germany, Italy, Hungary and the NDH. The new national borders cut Slovenian land, separating its people for many years. A part of it, in between the German and the Italian occupier also ran across the Polhov Gradec Dolomites towards the Ljubljana Basin - from Suhi dol to Šentvid pri Ljubljani. The border was marked with boundary stones and was secured by barbed wire, guard towers and mine fields, remains still visible on the terrain even now. In the life of ordinary people, the border came with a lot of troubles, because there were not many border crossings and they were heavily guarded. People tried to survive in different ways, so they also engaged in smuggling, which led to many casualties among civilians.