Contemporary History of Trieste and Venezia Giulia Regions - The Allied Military Government (1945 – 1954)
8th September 1943 Trieste was occupied by German SS (1943-1945). The terrible events of the second world war (harassments and deportations, the Risiera di San Sabba as a cremation oven) and the brief Jugoslavian occupation, since the end of April untill 2nd June 1945 they declared the annexation of the hole region and Trieste to Jugoslavia, were painfull and particularly dramatic in Trieste and Giulio-Dalmatia Region.
From 1945 until 1954, the year in which the London Agreement was signed, the city was ruled by the Allied Military Government as the Free Territory of Trieste; in 1953 a demonstration against the occupying forces was bloodily repressed by the police.
Visiting these areas and their various monument (even museums, Foibas, the tunnel excavated by Germans named “Kleine Berlin”, the original Refuges’ Camp (where Italian people leaving from Istria lived), meeting local Community people and listen to conferences, video documentaries and more, can be a real good opportunity to make it clear. The Region Friuli Venezia Giulia geographic lies towards the border to ex Jugoslavia and since 1992 to Slovenia which entered UE May 2004.
Trieste is the chief city of the Region, autonomous and under a special statute…(see our web)