Franc Frakelj
Franc Frakelj (a.k.a. Peter Skalar) (19 January 1917–?)<ref name="Vidic">Vidic, Joze. 1982. Po sledovih črne roke: dokumentarno-reportažni zapis. Ljubljana: Borec.</ref>Template:Rp was a member of the collaborationist Slovene Home GuardTemplate:Cn (after the Italian fascist capitulation in 1943) and a member of a secret murderous militia called Črna roka (Black Hand) who is accused of killing over 60Template:Citation needed people during the Second World War. He and his group used wooden sticks to massacre local peopleTemplate:Citation needed in the winter of 1943–44 in Kosler's Thicket in the marshes south of Ljubljana.Template:Citation needed
Frakelj was born in Dražgoše (a part of Železniki), a village in northwestern Slovenia, which was destroyed in 1942 by the German Army. Before the Battle of Turjak Castle (September 19, 1943) Frakelj was the commander of a stronghold of village guards in Tomišelj south of Ljubljana.Template:Citation needed
He died in Canada living under the name Peter Markis.<ref name="Vidic"/>Template:Rp<ref>Čepe, Marica, Vladimir Krivic, & Niko Lukež. 1985. Junaška Ljubljana 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 327.</ref>
See also
- Collaboration during World War II
- Slovenian Home Guard
- Slovene Partisans
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Yugoslavia during the Second World War