The only background I've managed to find is in Volume 3 of Vladimir Dedijer's War Diares, Page 19, on this excerpt;

"At this time the Italians increased the number of patrols in the streets and checked everyone's papers. The VOS agent, Srećko Potnik, drove up to one such Italian patrol of fifty soldiers in a car with a weapon in his pocket.
Srećko jumped out of the car, killed several Italians, and began to flee in the direction of Pražakova Street. The Italians, however, managed to shoot him in both legs and he fell to the ground. He managed to take a grenade out and throw it as the Italians approached, killing several more. The Italians began to fire at Srećko from all sides, and he pretended he was dead. As they cautiously approached his body, he managed to replace the dip in his revolver unnoticed and again opened fire on the Italians. Three more Italians were killed before they riddled him with bullet holes. Srećko Potnik was an art history student."

Did this really happen? Searching online for the name, no relevant results appear with more information.

by SlimCagey

6 comments

  1. It sounds far fetched or over exaggerated to me but he is probably a real person who did fight against fascism

  2. Maybe the details of the story are a bit dramatized, but this is surely a legit person and a legit event. Such events were fairly common during the second world war, and such commemorations are spread all over the country. It’s not unusual to find such commemorative signs even in the middle of the forest – they were mostly put up immediately after the war to commemorate all the victims.

  5. There were likely quite a few retellings of the story before it reached Dedijer who recorded it. It’s unlikely that he single-handedly killed a whole bunch of Italians, but it’s not completely made up either.

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