of Teharje in the summer of 1943 to accommodate members of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend). It had six large barracks and four courtyards where members of the organization trained shooting, learned geography and played sports. The OZNA (Department of National Security) took over the camp in May 1945 and turned it into a prison camp for internees in the Celje area. A report from the OZNA on 16 May stated "in addition to the prison, we established a concentration camp at Teharje". Additional 16 building were erected, including a warehouse and a bunker under it, used as a torture chamber. In total there were 17 large barracks, six in the central part of the camp and the rest on the surrounding slopes. Every barrack and courtyard was separately fenced with wire. The whole complex, about 500 meters wide and 800 meters long, was surrounded with barbed wire fences. Outside of the fence were spotlights and five guard posts of machine gun bunkers or watch towers. The commander of the camp was Tone Turnher. Arrival of prisoners The People's Defence Corps of Yugoslavia (KNOJ) organized the transports of prisoners to Teharje. First of them were detainees from the Stari Pisker prison in Celje. A report from 16 May 1945 mentions that there were 1.088 internees in the Teharje camp, most of whom were captured in raids carried out by the KNOJ in Celje. Slovene prisoners were separated from others that were turned over to the 3rd Army or military authorities of their countries. The OZNA conducted mass arrests of Germans from the Kočevje region (Gottscheers) that were also brought to Teharje. On 29 May, Marko Selin, Chief of the Celje OZNA, reported that a total of 252 prisoners were executed in the Celje district during May 1945. The Slovene Home Guards that surrendered to the British forces in May 1945 were interned in the Vetrinje (Viktring) camp near Klagenfurt, Austria. From 27 May to 31 May they were brought by trains to Bleiburg and repatriated to Yugoslavia, in total around 9,500 Home Guards and 600 civilians. Several thousand of them were taken by trains from the Austrian border at Dravograd towards the town of Celje. On 28 May, around 2,800 members of the 4th Home Guard Regiment and 200 civilians were transported from Bleiburg to Slovenj Gradec. The 3rd Home Guard regiment arrived in Slovenj Gradec on 29 May and were