Franc Frakelj was a member of the collaborationist Slovenian Home Guard (after the Italian

Italy

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 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

World War II

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. He and his group known as the 'twelve apostles' used wooden sticks to massacre local people in the winter of 1943-44 in the marshes south of Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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Frakelj was born in Dražgoše

Dražgoše

Dražgoše is a village in the Municipality of Železniki in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.The village lies on the southern slopes of the Jelovica Plateau....

 (a part of Železniki

Železniki

Železniki is a small town and a municipality in Slovenia. It is the economic centre and the largest settlement in the Selca Valley. It used to be known for iron smelting, and its name in Slovene indicates a relation to ironworks. The first furnace was mentioned in 1422, and the original furnace was...

), a village in northwestern Slovenia, which was destroyed in 1942 by the German Army. Before the Battle of Castle Turjak

Battle of Castle Turjak

The Battle of Castle Turjak was an encounter between the pro-Allies Liberation Front of the Slovene People and the pro-Axis White Guard during World War II. Slovene partisans of the Prešeren brigade seized the castle from the White Guard village sentries, capturing 500 enemy soldiers and wrecking...

 (September 19, 1943) Frakelj was the commander of a stronghold of village guards in Tomišelj south of Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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

Canada

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See also

• Collaboration during World War II
  Collaboration during World War II
  Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers, some citizens, driven by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, anti-Semitism or opportunism, knowingly engaged in collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II...
  
  
• Slovenian Home Guard
• Partisans (Yugoslavia)
  Partisans (Yugoslavia)
  The Yugoslav Partisans, or simply the Partisans were a Communist-led World War II anti-fascist resistance movement in Yugoslavia...
  
  
• Yugoslavia during the Second World War