Memorial Plaque for 13 Murdered at the Church in Zell-Pfarre/Sele-Cerkev

In the area of Zell/Sele, several cases of the so-called "Grünen Kader" are documented. This term refers to deserters and Wehrmacht refusers who spent the war hidden in the forest, primarily wanting to survive rather than – like the partisans – actively resist. As a result of a wave of arrests by the Gestapo in 1942/43, which was facilitated by the discovery of bunkers in November 1942, a large number of people were arrested for high treason. During a court trial in Klagenfurt in April 1943, 35 defendants were convicted of resistance activities: twelve men and one woman received death sentences, while others received prison sentences of varying severity. The thirteen individuals sentenced to death were executed on April 29, 1943, at the Vienna Regional Court, while the others were deported to concentration camps. Two Slovene-language commemorative plaques at the entrance of the old church in Zell-Pfarre/Sele commemorate the thirteen executed individuals. Alongside photographs of the victims, their birth and death dates are listed.