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Slovenia: Mass Grave Found

A mass grave, believed to hold the bodies of as many as 300 Nazi collaborators from Slovenia or Croatia who were killed after World War II, has been discovered in eastern Slovenia, the authorities said Wednesday. Investigators and historians discovered the remains when they removed concrete walls built after World War II to close off a cave near Lasko, 55 miles east of Ljubljana, the capital.
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