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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.

There were malicious false reports, and they were coming from the very hospital where he was the head.

It came from the lower level of employees, the cleaners and the male nurses, the non-qualified workers.

But neither he nor I knew it was a matter of life or death. The same night of his arrest they took him away to Rudnik.

There was an outpost like the one at Sveti Urh. They killed him there at Rudnik.

Father did not agree with her decision

He was an important man and, in terms of his political orientation in former Yugoslavia, he was conservative,

belonging to the Catholic party.

As most conservatives were oriented during WWII, they began to cooperate with the occupier.

But my father did not.

He was a nationally conscious Slovene and also a combatant for general Maister during WWI.

He didn’t appreciate my joining though.

There were two people in 1941, coming to see him. I found out later they were important organizers in the partisans.

But I didn’t know why they came to see him. Then he just seemed to become a pacifist.

He helped everyone in trouble and who came to him.

But he didn’t much exert himself.

Not to the extent that I could say he was a member of the activists of the LF.

At home they didn’t let me work for the LF.

But I decided that I just had to proceed independently and according to my own set of ethics.