Drago Supančič

Drago Supančič (1903–1964)[1] was a Slovene special-needs teacher.

Supančič worked at the school for the deaf and dumb in Ljubljana.[1] He was a member of the Slovenian Red Cross[2] and he used the position in order to visit Slovenes that had been deported to Serbia during the Second World War.[3] In early November 1943, he traveled to concentration camps in northern Italy to intervene for the release of prisoners held there.[4] He started collaborating with the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation in 1944.[1] The German authorities arrested him in 1944 and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp.[1][5]

In the spring of 1947, the Yugoslav authorities arrested him and used him as an incriminating witness in the Nagode Trial,[1] and then released him. In September 1949 he was arrested again and sentenced to a year of forced labor and pretrial custody.[1]

Notes
  1. Vode, Angela, & Alenka Puhar. 2004. Skriti spomin. Ljubljana: Nova revija, p. 84.
  2. Roš, Fran. 1967. Slovenski izgnanci v Srbiji 1941-1945. Ljubljana: Obzorja, p. 175.
  3. Ferenc, Tone. 1968. Nacistična raznarodovalna politika v Sloveniji v letih 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Obzorja, p. 426.
  4. Bele, Meta. 1985. Od ječe do ječe: Jugoslovanke v kaznilnicah fašistične Italije, 1941–1944. Ljubljana: Borec, p. 129.
  5. Godeša, Bojan. 1995. Kdor ni z nami, je proti nam: slovenski izobraženci med okupatorji, Osvobodilno fronto in protirevolucionarnim taborom. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 325.
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