Franc Frakelj

Franc Frakelj (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^{[citation needed]} people during the Second World War. He and his group known as the 'twelve apostles' used wooden sticks to massacre local people^{[citation needed]} in the winter of 1943-44 in the marshes south of Ljubljana.^{[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 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.

See also

• Collaboration during World War II
• Slovenian Home Guard
• Partisans (Yugoslavia)
• Yugoslavia during the Second World War