in 1943, expected to be 24-year-old Peter Florjancic, ski jumper, Yugoslavia, known as an Olympic represents, fight for the German army on the Russian front be retrieved.Instead, he decided to flee.
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perfume atomizer (hit) plastic injection moulding machines (hit) plastic photographic film frame (hit) with lighter for Dunhill rolling ignition on the lighter box (hit) car airbag (Miss) plastic zip (Miss) on 17 April, he and a friend on board a train from sleepy lakeside resort of Bled in German-occupied Slovenia.Part way through their artificial ski holidays in Kitzbühel, Austria, cross-border they would mount in the neutral Switzerland, so you look as if they were on the slopes of the avalanche-prone Hahnenkamm was killed.
No one would be able, that threaten truth find out without their lives.
Florjancic would not Bled for more than 50 years, he used to make and beat several small fortunes - and thereby hobnob with the social elite of the day.
"I was always interested in famous people," he said.
Even before the end of the war had, he had made a bunch of money.
Shortly after arriving in Berne, Switzerland, it for the use of disabled persons - men in the war wounded - designed patented a weaving machine and made 100,000 francs from it.
"It was enough, buy three luxury houses," he says.
But the decisive Florjancic spent a majority of which live in Davos and Zurich, where he met his wife.
After the war, a a holiday turned into a 13-year stay to Monte Carlo, and in 1950. A meeting on the pool Pasha, associate of King Faruq Egypt, worldwide led spray to a long cooperation, during the Florjancic a perfume invented, which today is used with Ilhamy Hussein throughout the world.
Melting zip
Florjancic loved high lifeFrom Monte Carlo he moved to Villach, Austria, 1963, where he would invent plastic ice skates and the plastic photographic film frame.
"Gold is located on the streets and you need it with ideas dig." "Are ideas such as the shovel", he says.
But not everyone has unearthed a Florjancic's ideas pots of gold. His name appears on more than 230 patents, including those for a drinking straw owner and an ice spear to the cool drinks.
The world has help also largely overlooked, the benefits of a broad belt dance couples in the time and the benefits of a guard door monitoring shoe for drivers want scuffed always to prevent their heels.
And sometimes, he could have an idea that later from how she would take security airbag for cars which he sketched in 1957 but never managed to create exploding without the bags.
The zipper was a further almost accident: from the Monte Carlo years."I have this zip 1948 with plastic material and people were enthusiastic." We washed it and everything was perfect, "says Florjancic."
"We the jacket - ironed then but we could open the zip, not more, because it was melted." "The champagne we had ready to celebrate, we drank in mourning not in success."
Florjancic moved the patent, and earned nothing from the plastic zip ultimate triumph, if it otherwise was reinvented by someone with harder materials.
Famous friendsBut his successes were numerous enough to make him wish, move in higher circles indulge in enable.
Peter Florjancic (right) with Marlene Dietrich in the Monte Carlo story"In the right place at the right time," he says. The right areas contain some of the most extravagant hotels of Europe.
Born in a hotel-owned, he spent living in them then 25 years. Already his Office at the dining room is a hotel overlooking Lake Bled, walls covered with pictures of famous people he met.
The collection of the famous name fills all lull in the conversation. He sat next to Winston Churchill in the gambling table in Monte Carlo. He was invited to play Boule with Konrad Adenauer.
As a child in Bled, he said the members of the Yugoslavia dynasty Karadjordjevic and Edward and Wallace Simpson.
Once he saw with 1 million Swiss francs in the gaming table on a dozen plates King Farouk brought. He appeared in the 1957 film the Monte Carlo story with Marlene Dietrich. And he shook the hand of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler at the competition in the jump in the Olympic Games in 1936.
All of them was his favorite person nautical scholar Jacques Cousteau. "He was a very interesting man and knew about the sea," he says.
And what was interesting about a Slovenian inventor famous people?
"they were interested in getting my story." The history of my escape. "I always my story, was told", says Florjancic.
He returned Slovenia 1998.
"I told my mother that I back to die would to bled." I thought that wanted to be in the year 2000, "he says."
But there is no let up for the 92-year old.
"I have no pension," he says. "Only if you have a clear head you."
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