10. Tomb World War II
The obelisk tomb is dedicated to 45 fallen combatants in the National Liberation Struggle (NOB). In 1956, the remains of the combatants from the Slovenjegoriška troop were transferred to the central part of the old cemetery, whom, after the Battle of Mostje on 8 August 1942, the Germans exposed to shaming in front of the headquarters of the gestapo in Ptuj for a day and then buried them behind the cemetery wall.
The tombstone dedicated to Yugoslav soldiers who fell in battles with the Germans in April 1941 is close by.
The memorials to the NOB are the most widely represented group of public monuments in Slovenian history. Most of these monuments were created in the 1950s and 1960s. The majority were erected by the Unions of Fighters and Participants of the NOB, municipalities, the state, labour organizations and societies; sometimes, the memorials were erected by the families of the fallen.
In 1950, the city of Ptuj invited the architect Jože Plečnik to prepare a plan for a mausoleum, which turned out to be urbanistically too demanding and too expensive (14 m tall, 12 m wide) and thus remained only on paper.
