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This work by Lea Knez is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Austria-Slovenia border (Slovenian northern border) experienced many upheavals in the 20th century, which had a significant impact on the fate and evolution of the Slovenian nation. After the First World War, one of the key issues of the Paris Peace Conference was how to establish new national borders for the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The northern border became a place of various political intrigues, struggles and growing intolerance between the Slovenian and Austrian nation. The article describes historical developments on the northern border from its establishment in the years 1918–1923 to present day. It focuses on the events during the rise of national socialism, when German aspirations for this “unjustly lost historically their” territory grew stronger and stronger, until they were finally realised with the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 6th of April 1941.