Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival After World War II

About this book

In 1945 Slovenia 6 000 civilians and 12 000 members of the anti-Communist Home Guard the "domobranci" fearing punishment for their wartime resistance to their Partisan enemies fled to southern Austria. But there the British 8th Army loaded them into trucks purportedly to take them to Italy only to deliver them straight back to Titos Partisans. The Partisans tortured and then executed them. The remaining civilians were spared due to the brave revolt of the British Red Cross and Quaker aid workers. John Corsellis witnessed and took part in these protests and in this book reconstructs the survivors stories. These are vivid tales of wartime cruelty of the revival of battered communities in refugee camps and of emigration to Argentina the U.S. Canada and Britain. In this unique 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.