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This work by Daniel Siter is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Drawing on archival sources, oral testimonies, pictorial material and documentation from private collections, the article analyses Nazi denationalization politics in the period of four–year occupation of health–spa resort Rogaška Slatina. The main objective of Nazis was a quick implementation of denationalization and Germanization policy, which was in the land of Lower Styria implemented mostly by Styria Homeland Association, Secret State Police, Gendarmerie and some other agencies. In the health–spa resort, both 1941 and 1942 have passed in a sign of arrests, torment, violent house searches and confiscations of property, expulsions and internments into Nazi concentration camps, district and regional prisons, where the victims from Rogaška Slatina waited for their final execution. Others have gone through thorough political, ethnic, genetic and racial examination, and depending on their grades, they were given legitimations. Through kindergartens, schools, language courses and political rallies they were subducted to uncompromising Germanization.