Ernest Peterlin
Ernest Peterlin | |
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| Born | January 11, 1903 Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | March 20, 1946 (aged 43) Ljubljana, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1938–1941) Fascist Italy (1942–43) |
| Years of service | 1938–1944 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| Battles / wars | World War II in Yugoslavia |
Ernest Peterlin (11 January 1903 – 20 March 1946) was a Slovene military officer who rose to a senior position in the Royal Yugoslav Army prior to the Second World War. Married to Anja Roman Rezelj. A decided anti-Communist, during the war he became a prominent anti-Partisan military leader and one of the main exponents of the pro-Western faction of the Slovene Home Guard, an anti-Communist collaborationist militia active in parts of German-occupied Slovenia between 1943 and 1945. In 1945, he was tried and sentenced to death by the new Yugoslav Communist authorities and executed in 1946.