Mass graves in Škofja Loka
Mass graves in Škofja Loka were created in Škofja Loka, Slovenia during and after the Second World War. The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia has registered seven known mass graves in the city itself and an additional 20 in the Municipality of Škofja Loka. Background. The concealed mass graves in Škofja Loka were created in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, after British forces forcibly repatriated Home Guard soldiers that had fled to Austria to Yugoslavia from camps in Bleiburg, Lavamund, Rosenbach, Viktring (a district of Klagenfurt), and elsewhere. They are  part of the mass graves associated with the nearby former Loka Castle prison, where Home Guard members and civilians that did not flee to Austria were also killed en masse. The Skofja Loka prison has been characterized as an extermination camp that was also used for torture. List of mass graves. Škofja Loka is the site of seven known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. Two additional mass graves connected with these are located in neighboring Vincarje. An unknown number of Home Guard prisoners of war and Slovene civilians, and possibly victims of other nationalities , were murdered and buried at several sites in and around Loka Castle. Other mass graves. Additional mass graves in the Municipality of Škofja Loka are located in Bodovlje, Breznica pod Lubnikom, Crngrob, Dobruška Vas, Gabrovo, Križna Gora, Pevno, Puštal, Sopotnica, Trnje, and Vešter.