Slovenia attempts to rewrite its wartime pro-Nazi history

It emerged in January that an unnamed grandchild of the country’s leading wartime pro-Nazi, the notoriously anti-Semitic General Leon Rupnik (pictured above left, with SS-General Erwin Rösener, right), had succeeded in persuading the country’s Supreme Court to annul the death sentence imposed on him in 1946. It did this on the ground that the military tribunal which tried him had been procedurally inadequate. In theory, the invalidated verdict could had led to a retrial in a lower court. There was a catch: the retrial would have required his presence in court, despite the fact he had been shot 73 years earlier.