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]