Shortly after the arrival of the German army in Ljubljana in September 1943, representatives of the Slovene People’s Party negotiated with the German General Erwin Rösener on the establishment of Slovene military units, a Slovene Home Guard. For the German authorities, the Slovene Home Guard was an auxiliary police force for maintaining law and order. The President of the Ljubljana Regional Administration, and later Inspector General of the Slovene Home Guard, Divisional General Leon Rupnik, received for his 64th birthday in August 1944, a dagger with a Carniolan eagle, a lime leaf and a Slovenian tricolour.
Date: 1944
Material: metal, textile
Dimensions: 0.5 x 15.5 cm (dagger), 35 x 5.8 cm (sheath);
Inventory number: 2050
On view at the permanent exhibition Slovenes in XX. century
