Tone Ferenc was born in Veržej on December 6, 1927. In 1956 he obtained his BA degree in history at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and started to work at the then Museum of National Liberation in Ljubljana as an archivist. In 1959 he switched to the newly-organised Institute for the History of Workers' Movement. From the very beginning he also conducted research work on World War II history in Slovenia. In 1965 he defended his doctoral thesis in Belgrade entitled Nacistična raznarodovalna politika v Sloveniji v letih 1941-1945 (The Nazi Policy of Denationalization in Slovenia). In 1975 he became adviser for National Liberation War History post-graduate classes at the Faculty of Arts Department of History (in Ljubljana). After a period of oceasional lecturing he became full professor for World War II and National Liberation War History in Yugoslavia in 1981. He performed this task until 1995. Some of his most prominent vvorks are Kapitulacija Italije in narodnoosvobodilna borba v Sloveniji jeseni 1943 (Capitulation of Italy and the National Liberation War in Slovenia in the Fall of 1943), and two collections of sources entitled Quellen zur nationalsozialistischen Entnationalisierungspolitik in Slowenien 1941-1945, and Fašisti brez krinke (Fascists Without Masks).