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Raid at Ožbalt
The Raid at Ožbalt was an operation on 31 August 1944 in which 105 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) were rescued by Slovene Partisans. The majority were liberated from a work site at the village of Ožbalt ((ドイツ語:St. Oswald an der Drau)) about west of Maribor on the railway line to Dravograd in the German ''Reichsgau Steiermark'' (Styria), now part of modern-day northern Slovenia. Six of the liberated POWs were separated from the group during an engagement with the Germans a few days after their liberation, but following a 14-day trek across they were flown out of a Partisan airfield at Semič to Bari, Italy. The successful escapees consisted of eight Frenchmen, nine New Zealanders, 12 Australians, and 70 British POWs.〔Churches (1996), pp. 173–174〕
==Background==
Allied POWs were used in working camps for various purposes beneficial to the German side. By June 1944 there were several working camps administered by Stalag XVIII-D which was located in Maribor, Slovenia ((ドイツ語:Marburg an der Drau)).〔Schwarz et al (2012)〕 Prisoners held in one of the work camps were used for maintenance of the railway between Maribor and Dravograd ((ドイツ語:Unterdrauburg)) which continued through the Drava valley and into Austria. This work camp is believed to have been Work Camp 1046/GW.〔(Walter Gossner )〕 At this time, railways in Slovenia were being regularly sabotaged by Slovene Partisans, who also rescued Allied personnel including aircrew and POWs who had escaped from the Germans.〔Tomasevich (2001), p. 115〕 A work party, consisting of about a hundred mostly British POWs were transported from their camp to Ožbalt each morning to do railway maintenance work, and returned to the camp in the evening.〔Churches (1996), p. 18〕 There were several other work camps in the vicinity of Ožbalt, mostly doing agricultural work. By late August 1944, the Partisan 14th Slovenia Division, including the 2nd Slovenia Brigade "Ljubo Šercer", was deployed in strength in the Pohorje mountains south of the Drava river between Maribor and Dravograd.〔Churches (1996), p. 172〕
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