To Walk with the Devil
To Walk with the Devil

Author: Gregor Joseph Kranjc

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1442613300

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Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents.

To Walk with the Devil
To Walk with the Devil

Author: Gregor Joseph Kranjc

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9781442694552

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"In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration? Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in To Walk with the Devil, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents. Kranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation - a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. To Walk with the Devil makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today."--Publisher's website.

Slovenia 1945
Slovenia 1945

Author: John Corsellis

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781848855342

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At the end of May 1945, 12,000 Slovenian soldiers boarded trains 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 stories of World War II, 'Slovenia 1945' follows the fate of Slovenes caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans in World War II and the problems of post-war settlement. Thousands were returned by British troops to face death at the hands of their war-time enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Yet many survived and the story of their exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. In this unique account, the authors draw on more than half a century of research, personal accounts and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell the story of the Slovene refugees.