Jaka Avšič Explained

Jaka Avšič
Birth Date:	24 April 1896
Birth Place:	Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary

Jakob "Jaka" Avšič (nom de guerre Branko Hrast) (24 April 1896 – 2 January 1978)^[1] was the first commander of Chetnik units (Plava garda) in Slovenia during the Second World War.^[2] At the end of October 1941, Colonel Avšič and Major Karl Novak went to Ravna Gora and met with Draža Mihailović, who appointed Avšič as his representative in Slovenia. Avšič soon deserted the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland and joined the communists. He was then instructed by the communist executive board to try to convince other Yugoslav army officers to desert and join the communists.^[3] During the war he used the pseudonym Branko Hrast.^[4]

Sources

• Book: Pirjevec, Jože. Jože Pirjevec. Tito and His Comrades. 6 January 2019. 22 May 2018. University of Wisconsin Press. 978-0-299-31770-6.
• Book: Крањц, Маријан Ф. Plava garda: zaupno poročilo četniškega vojvode in generalštabnega polkovnika Karla I. Novaka, poveljnika slovenskih četnikov. 2006. Pro-Andy. 978-961-91794-3-7.
• Book: Rant, Jože. Slovenski eksodus leta 1945. 2008. Selbstverl.. 978-987-24162-1-8.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jakob Avšič, predsednik ljubljanskega MLO in vojaški general . www.kamra.si . 7 January 2019.

2. " Prvi poveljnik slovenskih četnikov, konjeniški polkovnik (Rade) Jaka Avšič..."

3. Book: Vojno-istoriski glasnik. 1983. 168. Pošto je prišao OF-u, pukovnik Avšič je od Izvršnog odbora dobio uputstvo da utiče na oficire kako bi ih privoleo da priđu narodnooslobodilačkom pokretu..
4. Book: Prispevki za zgodovino delavskega gibanja. 7 January 2019. 1973. Inštitut. sl. 198. Jaka Avšič-Branko Hrast.