Construction projects of the German occupier in Kamnik

Abstract

During the Second World War, the area of Kamnik came under the German occupation administration, which took various measures to integrate it into the Reich and make it as German as possible. Apart from Germanizing the population, these efforts also included ample investments in transport, administrative, and housing infrastructure, with which the occupier introduced its characteristic architecture into the annexed landscape. Most investments made by the German occupation administration in Kamnik were implemented between the summer of 1941 and the autumn of 1943. By employing the preserved documents or, more specifically, archival sources, plans, and photographs, the author presents historically the most important buildings and other infrastructural investments made in Kamnik during the German occupation, their “prehistory” as well as their designated use both during and after the war.