Medicine Under the Death’s Head: SS-Lazarett Laibach 1943–1945 Cover Image

Medicina pod mrtvaško glavo: SS-Lazarett Laibach 1943–1945
Medicine Under the Death’s Head: SS-Lazarett Laibach 1943–1945

Author(s): Klemen Kocjančić
Subject(s): Military history, Health and medicine and law, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: military medicine; Waffen-SS; World War II; Ljubljana;

Summary/Abstract: Article deals with SS military hospital in Ljubljana, which was between 1943 and 1945 only permanent German military hospital in Slovenian territory during the Second World War. Beside, that the hospital was located in several buildings in Ljubljana, it also had dislocated units in Bled. SS military doctors were treating German soldiers and also members of the anti-Communist units in German service, that were active in Slovenia. In Ljubljana were, along the military hospital, also a central laboratory and central military medical storage facility for the whole of Yugoslavia.

  • Issue Year: 58/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 110-124
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovenian