Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

LEON RUPNIK.  NAZI.

Leon Rupnik, also known as Lav Rupnik or Lev Rupnik (10 August 1880 – 4 September 1946) was a Slovene general during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who collaborated with the Fascist Italian and Nazi German occupation forces during World War II. Rupnik served as the President of the Provincial Government of the Nazi-occupied Province of Ljubljana from November 1943 to early May 1945. Between September 1944 and early May 1945, he also served as chief inspector of the Domobranci (Slovene Home Guard), a collaborationist anti-communist militia, although he did not have any military competences until the last month of the war.[1]:97, 295–96[2]On 5 May 1945, Leon Rupnik fled to Austria with a small group of 20 collaborators. He was arrested by the British on 23 July and returned to Yugoslavia in January 1946. He was put on trial alongside Rösener and others, and was sentenced to death for treason on 30 August 1946.He was executed by firing squad on 4 September 1946 at Ljubljana's Žale cemetery, and was buried the same day in an unmarked grave.