Debeče - Memorial to the Courier Post TV 3

The memorial is in the shape of a square column, the front side is made of rifle fire. The author of the architectural sketch of the memorial is Alojz Škrajnar it was made by the sculptor and writer Tone Svetina. The memorial was erected by the subcommittee of partisan couriers for the Dolenjsko-Belokranjsko area 4th brigade of the state security forces at the municipal committee of ZZB NOV Grosuplje it was unveiled on 21 May 1977.

The courier post TV 3 was established immediately after the Roški offensive in autumn 1942 by Rojc Lojze-Miha T. at Pristava near Stična. The special feature of this courier post was that couriers had to regularly cross the German-Italian occupation border. The border was an occupation territory, secured with barbed wire, minefield and soldiers. They maintained a constant link between the leading bodies of the national liberation struggle of Slovenia with the leadership in Styria and Upper Carniola, through the border, partisan units and activists of OF and also numerous soldiers from Upper Carniola and Styria were sent to partisans on Dolenjsko. Near the courier post TV 3 at Pristava was the belogardistična postojanka Stična, which presented a great danger for couriers. Belogardists were constantly following them, so the courier post had to move frequently: first to the forest, then to the immediate vicinity of the border in Kacne and finally to a small forest near Debečem, about 100 meters from the border, where it remained during the winter of 1942/1943. For the winter they built a dugout, in which they made shelters, and protected themselves with three mine layers in front of it. Couriers left the dugout early in spring, afterwards they lived freely in various places. Due to the increasing danger, couriers decided to move to the German side of the border. They also moved from place to place (they were at Tujem grm, on Vnajnarji, near Gabrje, Dolgem brdo and on Jančah, near Jevnice and also in many other places), the post was only a day or two at one place. Upon the capitulation of Italy, TV 3 moved to Ivančna Gora after the sudden German offensive, it, like other courier posts on Dolenjsko moved again to a less populated area. TV 3 operated from the Roški 1942 offensive until the liberation. Towards the end of the war, conditions became worse and courier work became increasingly difficult due to intensified German patrols and due to the rise of home guard on Dolenjsko.

Sources:

Kikelj, Lojze, ur. Pomniki NOB v občini Grosuplje. Grosuplje: Svet za ohranjevanje in razvijanje revolucionarnih tradicij ter spomeniško varstvo pri občinski konferenci SZDL, 1987.

Courier post TV 3: on the unveiling of the memorial at Debečem. Ljubljana : Iniciativni odbor za odkritje spominskega obeležja na Debečem, 1977

Zakonjšek, Rado. Partizanski kurirji. Ljubljana: Odbor IV. brigade VDV kurirjev relejnih postaj Slovenije, 1985.

Vodnik po partizanskih poteh, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1978 str. 108.

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