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Jakob "Jaka" Avšič (''nom de guerre'' Branko Hrast) (24 April 1896 – 2 January 1978) was the first commander of
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units ('' Plava garda'') in Slovenia during the Second World War. At the end of October 1941, Colonel Avšič and Major
Karl Novak Karl Novak (October 19, 1905 – 1975) was a Yugoslav Slovene military officer best known as commander of the Slovene Chetniks in the Italian-annexed Province of Ljubljana (part of modern-day Slovenia) during World War II. Early life Novak wa ...
went to Ravna Gora and met with
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, who appointed Avšič as his representative in Slovenia. Avšič soon deserted the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland and joined the
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. He was then instructed by the
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executive board to try to convince other Yugoslav army officers to desert and join the Partisans. During the war he used the pseudonym Branko Hrast.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Avsic, Jaka 1896 births 1978 deaths Military personnel from Ljubljana Carniolan people Members of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia Members of the Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Austria Generals of the Yugoslav People's Army Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Slovenian Chetnik personnel of World War II Yugoslav Partisans members