page_title: Bovec
section_title: Mass grave
hierarchical_section_title: Bovec / History / World War II / Mass grave
caption_attribution_description: English: Marker at the site of the Cemetery Mass Grave in Bovec, Municipality of Bovec, Slovenia
context_page_description: Bovec is a town in the Littoral region in northwestern Slovenia, close to the border with Italy. It is the central settlement of the Municipality of Bovec.
context_section_description: Bovec is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Cemetery Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče na pokopališču) is located next to the entrance to the town cemetery. It contained the remains of 11 German soldiers killed between 1941 and 1945. The names of all of them are known. The grave was exhumed in 2000 and the remains were transferred to Žale Cemetery in Ljubljana. Unlike most mass graves in Slovenia, the grave was well maintained during the communist era with funds provided by the German War Graves Commission. The mass grave is marked by a plaque in Slovene and German.
caption: Mass grave memorial
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