Franc Frakelj

Franc Frakelj (real name: Peter Skalar) was a member of the collaborationist Slovenian Home Guard (after the Italian fascist capitulation in 1943) and a member of a secret murderous militia called Črna roka ("Black Hand") who killed (as he said, 'in the name of God') over 60 people during the Second World War. He and his group known as the 'twelve apostles' used wooden stakes to massacre local people in the winter of 1943-44 in the marshes south of Ljubljana [A memorial to Frakelj's victims stands in the area. See http://td-barje.si/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=144] .

Frakelj was born in Dražgoše, a village in northwestern Slovenia, which was destroyed in 1942 by the German Army. Before the Battle of Castle Turjak (September 19 1943) Frakelj was the commander of a stronghold of village guards in Tomišelj south of Ljubljana.

He was never convicted of his war crimes and he died in Canada.

ee also

* Collaboration during World War II
* Slovenian Home Guard
* Leon Rupnik
* Gregorij Rožman
* Partisans (Yugoslavia)
* Yugoslavia during the Second World War

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