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Slovenia during the Second World War

Home Guard (Domobranstvo)
Liberation Front (Osvobodilna Fronta)

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Home Guard (Domobranstvo)

Flag of the Home Guard - Image by Ivan Sarajčić, 2 May 2000

The Slovenian Domobranstvo (Home Guard, from dom, "home", and braniti, "to defend") was an armed formation created by the German occupying forces in Slovenia during the Second World War.
The image was made according to photos, scans and information provided by Janez Vezalka.

Ivan Sarajčić & Eugene Ipavec, 2 February 2009

It seems obvious (and understandable) that this flag is a variation of the flag of the Krain province of Austria-Hungary - Slovenian tricolour with the coat of arms of the Krain province - white with a blue eagle bearing a chequy red-white crescent.

Željko Heimer, 6 November 1999

The Heraldry and Vexillology of Slovenia website by Andrej Benejdečič (Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the UN) shows a different rendition of the flag, with centered arms.

Eugene Ipavec & Ivan Sache, 2 February 2009

Liberation Front (Osvobodilna Fronta)

Symbol of the Liberation Front - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 29 August 2000

In 1941 started in Slovenia the resistance movement named Osvobodilna fronta (Liberation Front), whose symbol depicts Triglav (three headed mountain -- the highest mountain in Slovenia), on top of which are letters "O" and "F". The Triglav is a pan-Slovene symbol, which was adopted as the main part of the post-war, Communist era, coat of arms. The current coat of arms, designed in 1991, is also based on the Triglav silhouette.

Andrej Brodnik, 30 June 1995

The book Slovenska grb in zastava - heraldika in veksilologija by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti, shows the photos of two flags used by partisan units, vaguely prototypical of the post-war Socialist Yugoslav flag):

Two partisan flags - Images by Eugene Ipavec, 2 March 2000

- a flag presented to the Varnostno-Obvečevalna Služba (Security and Intelligence Service on 31 December 1941 by the women of Ljubljana.
- a flag belonging to the 1st batallion of the Vojska Državne Varnosti (State Security Army, February 1944
Oddly the shades of gray in each photo suggest the blue fields to be much lighter than the red, which would seem to mean a very light blue and a very dark red. The outline of mount Triglav on the second flag is of unknown color: not red; blue wouldn't show; gray seems a possibility. Green is unlikely as I understand it was associated with the Germans at the time.

Željko Heimer & Eugene Ipavec, 2 March 2009

A website from Kamnik shows colour photos of an historical exhibition organized in December 2008 by the local cultural association Kulturno druÅštvo Triglav (KD Triglav).
A photo shows a flag horizontally divided white-blue-red with a red star in the blue stripe and the golden writing "ZAŠ:ČITINA ČETA" and "TRIGLAV" in the white and red stripes, respectively.
The caption says that this flag belonged to the "Security Troops Triglav" and is used today by KD Triglav as its flag.

Ivan Sache, 8 April 2009