Resistance, imprisonment & forced labor
Subtitle: a Slovene student in World War II
By: Metod M. Milač.
Series: Studies in modern European history ;; v. 47
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Milač, Metod M., 1924-; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovenian.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Italian.; Prisoners of war -- Slovenia -- Biography.
Genres: Personal narratives, Slovenian.; Biography.
Other titles: Resistance, imprisonment, and forced labor
Description: "Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor recalls the author's struggle for survival as a prisoner and forced laborer following the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. He describes a dizzying and fateful journey during which he worked with both pro-Western and Partisan forces and was variously imprisoned by Italian Fascists at Rab and the Nazis at Auschwitz and elsewhere. A theme that emerges is that civilians were as much participants and victims of the war as those on the battlefield.

The author also describes the forced repatriation of Yugoslavs to Tito's forces by the British after the war and the tragic consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: Chapter 1 The Prewar Years 4; title: Chapter 2 Attack on Yugoslavia 21; title: April 1941; title: Chapter 3 First Year of Occupation 32; title: April 1941-June 1942; title: Chapter 4 With the Slovene Partisans 42; title: June I942-August 1942; title: Chapter 5 In Captivity by the Italian Armed Forces 66; title: August 1942; title: Chapter 6 Concentration Camp Rab in the Adriatic 73; title: September 1942-January 1943; title: Chapter 7 Days at Home 87; title: January I943-June I944; title: Chapter 8 Gestapo Prison 99; title: June 1944-September 1944; title: Chapter 9 Forced Labor Camp Auschwitz II2; title: September i944-January 1945; title: Chapter 10 Auschwitz: Evacuation and Escape 139; title: January 1945; title: Chapter 11 Hospital Worker-Graz, Austria I54; title: February I945-April 1945; title: Chapter 12 Building a Defense Line I67; title: April 1945; title: Chapter 13 Almost Home I75; title: May 1945; title: Chapter I4 Viktring/Vetrinj: Cruel and Brutal Deception I87; title: May 1945; title: Chapter 15 From Uncertainty to New Beginning 210; title: June 1945-June 1950.