Main memorial of the Rapla border no. 10

Between the years 1920 - 1947, the Slovenian territory was divided by the Rapla border, and Primorsko was given to Italy as payment for opening the Italian front during the First World War.

The border ran across the summit of Triglav. On Zaplanje, Italy erected a powerful military monument to Victor Emmanuel III., and at the summit, the main sector border marker number 10 stood. Aljaž's column remained 2.55 m on the Yugoslav side.

In the summer of 1944, a partisan patrol climbed up Triglav, and the border marker was torn down.

Memories of Dr. Lev Svetek

It was a Wednesday, August 2nd, 1944, at 11 o'clock in the morning, when this group, after a difficult climb up the rugged, current Komarjevi path from Trento upwards past Doliča, Italian financial barracks, and along the southern wall, climbed up to the summit and hoisted the Slovenian flag on Aljaž's column.

In an overwhelming excitement, all of us six were embraced and from our throats, into the pure mountain air, rang out Aljaž's Oj, Triglav, my homeland! After the first excitement, we began to look around and behold - right next to Aljaž's column stood an unusual, strange display, a pole about half a meter high, obviously a new border marker between the two occupiers, since it is marked with the abbreviations of their countries: on the northern side D (Germany), on the southern side I (Italy). It struck us with a sense of great anger. We dug up the concrete pole on its northern side, attacked it with all our strength, and it flew off in a great arc over the northern Triglav ridge downward and shattered somewhere in the rock above the Triglav glacier.