Editing TIGR (section)

== Second World War ==
[[File:TIGR spominska plošca.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Memorial plaque in [[Ljubljana]] to [[Danilo Zelen]], a leading member of the TIGR, fallen in the fight against [[Italian Army]] in the [[Province of Ljubljana]] in May 1941.]]
In 1941 several members of TIGR were condemned for espionage and terrorism at the [[Second Trieste trial]]; four of them ([[Viktor Bobek]], [[Ivan Ivančič]], [[Simon Kos]] and [[Ivan Vadnal]]) were executed in [[Villa Opicina]] near [[Trieste]] the same year, jointly with the [[Communist]] activist [[Pinko Tomažič]]. By the time of the [[Axis invasion of Yugoslavia]] in April 1941, most of the organization was already dismantled by both Italian and [[Nazi German]] secret police and most of its prominent members either sent to [[concentration camp]]s, killed or [[exile]]d. On May 13, 1941, in the hills above [[Podtabor, Dobrepolje|Podtabor]], three TIGR members carried out the first armed resistance against Axis forces in Slovenian territory during the Second World War,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ferenc |first=Tone |title=Mala Gora |encyclopedia=Enciklopedija Slovenije |year=1992 |volume=6 |page=382 |publisher=Mladinska knjiga |location=Ljubljana |quote=Boj na M. g. je bil prvi oboroženi spopad z okupatorjem v osrednji Sloveniji.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fajfar |first1=Simona |title=Bitka na Mali gori je zaveza za prihodnost |url=https://old.delo.si/novice/slovenija/bitka-na-mali-gori-je-zaveza-za-prihodnost.html |access-date=April 27, 2022 |work=Delo |quote=13. maja 1941 se je na Mali Gori pri Ribnici zgodil prvi oboroženi spopad Slovencev, pripadnikov organizacije TIGR, z okupatorjem}}</ref> in which Danilo Zelen (1907–1941) was the first Slovenian to die in combat resisting the Axis forces.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zelen, Danilo (1907–1941) |url=https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi862252/ |website=Slovenska biografija |publisher=Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti |access-date=April 27, 2022 |quote=Z. je prvi Slov., ki je padel v boju z okupatorjem na Slov.}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], many of its members joined the [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan resistance]], although the organization itself was not invited to join the [[Liberation Front of the Slovenian People]].