together with the first group sent by trains to nearby Velenje and from there to Celje, where they arrived on the morning of 1 July. Some of the prisoners managed to escape during the trip. On 30 May the 2nd Home Guard Regiment traveled from Bleiburg, across Maribor, and arrived in Celje on 31 May. From the railway station of Celje they were taken by the OZNA and KNOJ through the town by foot towards the nearby Teharje camp, 7 kilometers east of Celje. During the whole trip prisoners were beaten and those that lagged behind were shot. Upon arrival to the camp they had to drop everything they had and were left only with their clothes. The Home Guards received no food on the first day. The camp was not suitable for the admission of prisoners from Bleiburg, but was chosen because it already had barracks and was near the town of Celje. In total around 4,000 to 5,000 Slovene Home Guards and civilians were transferred from Bleiburg to Teharje. Treatment of inmates The Home Guards were placed in the courtyards, while civilians and Germans were placed in barracks. The barracks were 20 meters in length and 8 meters in width and had bunk beds, toilets and sinks. Windows had iron bars. Around the barracks was a narrow ditch that the Home Guards were forbidden to cross. A list was made of every prisoner with their personal information and date of entry in the army. The lists were used to separate Home Guard POWs into three groups: group A consisted of juveniles, group B consisted of those mobilized in 1945, and group C included the rest. However, there were exceptions of this rule. Minors from group A were situated in a barrack and were told that they will be tried by People's Courts. The B group were also in a separate barrack, but a part of them were selected for execution. The majority of Home Guards were in group C and were placed on the open. The first two groups received two meals a day. The third group had the harshest treatment at the camp and were given no water and food for the first two and a half days. Later they received one meal daily and from 5 June two meals daily. They were sometimes allowed to bring water and share it with inmates, which depended on the