The successful activity of the German minority at Maribor during the two wars helped a great deal to the visible results of the occupier's denationalizing work in this town. The »Štajerska domovinska zveza« (Styrian Patriotic Union) played the main part in the Germanization of the Slovenes in Slovene Styria during the war. It devoted every attention to the propagandiste activity and to the organization of courses for the German language. The occupier expected much of the mass deportations of the Slovenes, begun already on June 7th 1941. During the first year of the occupation the occupier dissolved already all the Slovene clubs, organizations and unions at Maribor. All cultural institutions were treated in a similar way. The occupier did not spare the Slovene clergy either. The worst form of his terror was the shooting of hostages, among whom numerous organizers of the uprising were killed. The occupier's schools had a leading role in the Germanization. To the first meaures of denationalization belonged the changes in the outward appearance of Maribor, which was, beside others, soon followed by the economy of Maribor, especially by the industry, which worked nearly exclusively for the occupier's war requirements.