On 27 August 1944, two days before the Slovak National Uprising was declared, soldiers of the Ružomberok garrison and partisans cleared German troops out of the town below. The uprising held Liptov for weeks and was then pushed back into the mountains. In October 1944 the fighting reached the terrace: several houses at the upper end of Vlkolínec burned under mortar fire, five villagers were shot by German soldiers, and most of the inhabitants had already been evacuated to Liptovská Lúžna. The houses at that end were rebuilt afterwards in the old way, which is why the upper village is younger than it looks. Accounts differ on the detail — some say plainly that German units burned the village, the village's own history describes mortar fire — but the loss and the five dead are not in doubt.27. augusta 1944, dva dni pred vyhlásením Slovenského národného povstania, vyčistili vojaci ružomberskej posádky spolu s partizánmi mesto pod kopcom od nemeckých jednotiek. Povstanie držalo Liptov niekoľko týždňov a potom ho zatlačili späť do hôr. V októbri 1944 sa boje dostali až na terasu: niekoľko domov na hornom konci Vlkolínca zhorelo od mínometnej paľby, piatich obyvateľov zastrelili nemeckí vojaci a väčšina ľudí bola vtedy už evakuovaná do Liptovskej Lúžnej. Domy na tom konci potom postavili nanovo starým spôsobom, a preto je horná časť obce mladšia, než sa zdá. Pramene sa v detaile líšia — niektoré hovoria priamo o tom, že obec vypálili nemecké jednotky, vlastná história obce opisuje mínometnú paľbu — no o škodách a o piatich mŕtvych sa nepochybuje.
