Drago Supančič (1903–1964)Vode, Angela, & Alenka Puhar. 2004. ''Skriti spomin.'' Ljubljana: Nova revija, p. 84. was a Slovene special-needs teacher. Supančič worked at the school for the deaf and dumb in Ljubljana. He was a member of the Slovenian Red Cross and he used the position in order to visit Slovenes that had been deported to Serbia during the Second World War. In early November 1943, he traveled to concentration camps in northern Italy to intervene for the release of prisoners held there. He started collaborating with the

Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation ( sl, Osvobodilna fronta slovenskega naroda), or simply Liberation Front (''Osvobodilna fronta'', OF), originally called the Anti-Imperialist Front (''Protiimperialistična fronta'', PIF), was a Slovene ...

in 1944. The German authorities arrested him in 1944 and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp.Godeša, Bojan. 1995. ''Kdor ni z nami, je proti nam: slovenski izobraženci med okupatorji, Osvobodilno fronto in protirevolucionarnim taborom.'' Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 325. In the spring of 1947, the Yugoslav authorities arrested him and used him as an incriminating witness in the

Nagode Trial The Nagode Trial ( sl, Nagodetov proces) was a political show trial in PR Slovenia, Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia in 1947.Vodušek Starič, Jerca. 1993. Nagodetov proces. ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 7, p. 270. Ljubljana: Mladinska knj ...

, and then released him. In September 1949 he was arrested again and sentenced to a year of forced labor and pretrial custody.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Supancic, Drago 1903 births 1964 deaths Slovenian educators People from Ljubljana Yugoslav prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Yugoslavia