Peter Florjancic: Slovenian inventor extraordinaire
On 17 April, he and a friend boarded a train from the sleepy lakeside resort of Bled in German-occupied northern Slovenia.
Part of the way through their contrived skiing holiday in Kitzbuehel, Austria, they would cross the mountain border to neutral Switzerland, while making it look as if they had perished on the slopes of the avalanche-prone Hahnenkamm.
No-one would be able to find out the truth, without endangering their life.
Florjancic would not return to Bled for more than 50 years, time he used to make and blow several small fortunes - and in doing so hobnob with the social elite of the day.
"I was always interested in famous people," he says.
Before the war had even ended, he had made a pile of money.
Shortly after arriving in Bern, Switzerland, he patented a weaving machine designed for use by disabled people - men wounded in the war, for example - and made 100,000 Swiss francs from it.
