Partisan printing house "Slovenia". Idrija - Vojsko.
The Slovenia Printing Shop began to operate on 17 September 1944, and the next morning 4000 copies of the Partisan Daily were already dispatched via the courier relay station at Hum. The Partisan Daily was the only daily newspaper to be printed by a resistance movement in occupied Europe. It was issued regularly until the end of the war in a daily edition of 4000 to 7000 copies. The printing shop operated until 1st May 1945 with a staff of 40 to 50 persons. During its operation, a total of 313 different issues were printed on 1274 pages and in 1,394,000 copies. The engraver made a large number of linocuts, and cut as many as 56 different stamps into linoleum or lead with more than 450 specimens.

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