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Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor: A Slovene Student in World War II (Studies in Modern European History, Vol. 47) Paperback – October 17, 2003

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  • Series: Studies in Modern European History, V. 47 (Book 47)
  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers; 2 edition (October 17, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0820457817
  • ISBN-13: 978-0820457819
  • Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.8 x 8.8 inches
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The Author: Metod M. Milač was born in Prevalje, Yugoslavia, in 1924. At the age of sixteen, he was swept up by the maelstrom of the World War II and its aftermath. He emigrated to the United States in 1950, where he worked as a laborer while pursuing his education. He earned: his B.M. in theory and M.M. in musicology from The Cleveland Institute of Music; his M.S.L.S. in library science from Western Reserve University; and his M.A. in Philosophy from Syracuse University. At Syracuse University, he began a career as a librarian in 1962, where he then went on to earn his Ph.D. in humanities in 1991.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful By Michael F. Antolin on September 1, 2004
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The holocaust in Europe during the years of World War II, from approximately 1939 to approximately 1945, resulted in the deaths of approximately 50 million people, most of them civilians. Some of this is approximate because the killings began earlier and continued after these dates, with many of the names and places forgotten. That this tragedy befell millions of Jews is well known, that political prisoners of the Nazis were placed into concentration camps and left to starve is well known, and the "collateral damage" to civilians from bombs and bullets gone astray (or not) is mostly accepted. What seems to have been forgotten is that these were in fact people who had families, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and that the affected peoples were of virtually all nationalities in Axis-occupied Europe. This memoir by Metod Milac, which describes how he survived WWII in Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), reminds us that the holocaust of WWII created civilian victims of fights that came to visit them during the night, uprooted them into horror, and left them to fend for themselves as best they could even after the fighters went home.

This riveting book describes the life of a boy who was 17 years of age in 1941 when the German armies invaded his home in alpine region of northern Slovenia where it borders Austria. The narrative ends ten years later with his emigration from the displaced persons camps in southern Austria to the United States in 1950. I have to admit to being more than a casual reader, as my parents and other relatives similarly left Slovenia and came to Canada and America after the war. Many relatives survived the war and stayed in Slovenia, and their tales echo those of Milac as well.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Gary E. Brooks on September 21, 2005
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Metod Milac's account of the dark days before WWII, the rise of fascism, Nazi rule, and communist domination is a chilling perspective of his experiences as a young Slovenian student caught in the vice of political forces that viewed him - and many others - as expendable parts in their quest for world domination. Metod's graphic depictions of life in a succession of forced labor camps and ghettos, of escape, betrayal, and recapture are interlaced with stories of compassion and heroism that paint a vivid panorama of the turmoil, despair, and hope that swallowed the Kingdom of Jugoslavia in the thirties and forties. The narrative is compelling. I was impressed with the detail and research Metod included in this impressive work.Given his advanced degrees, this is to be expected - yet the text is quite approachable. An impressive and important contribution to the library of anyone interested in a very specific insider view of the horrors that befell an ordinary man at an extraordinary time in history! G. Evan Brooks, Cincinnati Ohio
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful By Katarina Tepesh on May 15, 2007
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An immensely important and necessary book to record WWII history from a personal point of view. Well written, this is a rare book from a Slovenian who survived the Italian concentration camp on the occupied island of Rab, Croatia. In addition to the forced labor camp in Auschwitz, Dr. Milac was a witness to some of the events in May of 1945 in Carinthia, Austria. He writes about events leading up to the brutal deception by the British 5th Corps in Carinthia, where his brother Ciril and 12,000 others were massacred by the Communist Partisans in former Yugoslavia.

This book should be read by everyone who values freedom of expression and struggles to balance democratic ideals.
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