Slovenia 1945 : memories of death and survival after World War II /
Slovenia nineteen forty five
John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar.
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-271) and index.
Over the mountain -- Pawns -- Betrayed -- Massacred -- Displaced persons -- Go home -- Darkness before dawn -- Invited by Peron -- Into the melting pot -- An uneasy conscience -- Dealing with history -- Godbye Argentina? -- The long road to reconciliation -- Not finished yet -- -- Over the mountain -- Pawns -- Betrayed -- Massacred -- Displaced persons -- Go home -- Darkness before dawn -- Invited by Peron -- Into the melting pot -- An uneasy conscience -- Dealing with history -- Goodbye Argentina? -- The long road to reconciliation -- Not finished yet. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
"At the end of May 1945, 12,000 Slovene soldiers were put on board trains by the British Army in Austria. They thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death." "One of the most moving and tragic diaspora stories of World War II, Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of a strongly Catholic and non-Communist community in Slovenia, including members of the anti-Communist Home Guard 'domobranci', caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans and the problems of the post-war settlement. Thousands of soldiers returned to face torture and death at the hands of their war-time enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Six thousand more civilians narrowly escaped the same fate, after the intervention of Red Cross and Quaker aid workers. Yet the story of exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain." "In this volume, the authors call on more than half a century of research and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell their stories. For the first time, the survivors tell their tales of wartime cruelty, of reviving their battered community in refugee camps, and of their emigration overseas, building successful new lives through courage, self-help and strong cultural identity."--BOOK JACKET.
1850438404 9781850438403
2006295943
World War, 1939-1945--Slovenia Political refugees--Slovenia Political atrocities--Slovenia Anti-communist movements--Slovenia
Slovenia--Politics and government--20th century. Slovenia--Social conditions--20th century.