European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Just before the warrant for my arrest came out, the Home Guard political police arrested my father.

At the time the Germans were in Ljubljana,

a lot of the competency was left to the Home Guard.

They were also a part of the SS, meaning the German police.

So they, too, swore allegiance to Hitler and the German Reich.

They carried out many arrests towards the end of the war.

It was like that when the Home Guard political police came to take my father away.

Only many years later we found out why.

Warrants for arrests were found in the archives. They were addressed to the chief of the Home Guard political police, Lovro Hacin.

Later I found out, also from my students, of whom some were on the opposite side, with the Home Guard…

One of my students gave me lots of information because his family was

and still is in contact with the Home Guard immigration.

Through this student I found out where my father was killed.

Not just through him, I also found out directly at Hacin’s procession.

There was a huge procession in Ljubljana against Rösener, the chief of the SS in the Ljubljana province.

Against Rupnik, who was the president of this Ljubljana province as well as the military head of the Home Guard.

And against Hacin, who was the chief of the Home Guard political police.

I was informed already during the war, from the intelligence service of the LF that Hacin was my father’s enemy.

I should tell my father that the LF can help him get to safety.

I went to my father and I told him this. He said that he’d done nothing and wasn’t going anywhere. It was a matter of life or death.