Franc Frakelj (a.k.a. Peter Skalar) (19 January 1917–?) ^[1]: 427 was a member of the collaborationist Slovene Home Guard^{[ citation needed]} (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 60^{[ citation needed]} people during the Second World War. He and his group used wooden sticks to massacre local people^{[ citation needed]} in the winter of 1943–44 in Kosler's Thicket 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 Turjak Castle (September 19, 1943) Frakelj was the commander of a stronghold of village guards in Tomišelj south of Ljubljana.^{[ citation needed]}

He died in Canada living under the name Peter Markis. ^{[1]: 430  [2]}

See also

• Collaboration during World War II
• Slovenian Home Guard
• Slovene Partisans
• Yugoslav Partisans
• Yugoslavia during the Second World War

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