Ernest Peterlin

Ernest Peterlin
Born	(1903-01-11)January 11, 1903 Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary
Died	March 20, 1946(1946-03-20) (aged 43) Ljubljana, FPR Yugoslavia
Allegiance	Kingdom of Yugoslavia (?–1941) Fascist Italy (1942–43) Slovene Home Guard (1943–1944)
Years of service	?–1944
Rank	Lieutenant-Colonel
Battles / wars	World War II in Yugoslavia

Ernest Peterlin (11 January 1903 – 20 March 1946) was a Slovene military officer who rose to a senior position in the Royal Yugoslav Army prior to the Second World War. Married to Anja Roman Rezelj. A decided anti-Communist, during the war he became a prominent anti-Partisan military leader and one of the main exponents of the pro-Western faction of the Slovene Home Guard, an anti-Communist collaborationist militia active in parts of German-occupied Slovenia between 1943 and 1945. In 1945, he was tried and sentenced to death by the new Yugoslav Communist authorities and executed in 1946.