How Long to Read Between the Star and the Swastika

How Long Does it Take to Read Between the Star and the Swastika?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 26 minutes to read Between the Star and the Swastika by Gregor Joseph Kranjc

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Post-war Communist historians generally viewed collaboration in Slovenia during World War II as being limited to a relatively small number of treasonous and opportunistic bourgeois politicians and Catholic officials. According to this view, the vast majority of Slovenes firmly supported the Communist resistance. A rival interpretation was promoted by the thousands of anti-Communist Slovenes who fled the country after their defeat in the civil war that raged concurrently with the occupation. For them, the "collaborator" was in fact a martyr of the nation, who was forced unwillingly into cooperation with the occupiers in order to resist an undemocratic Communist revolution. Between the Star and the Swastika challenges these two persistent historical interpretations of collaboration in Slovenia during World War II, which molded the events of the war years to fit a priori ideological positions. Collaboration in Slovenia was a much more complex and varied social and political phenomena than either the politicized left or right cared to admit. A detailed exploration of the actions, motives and ideology of collaborators, their attempts at resistance, as well as the popular acceptance of accommodation, reveals the complicated nature of collaboration. Acquiescence to the overwhelming power of the occupiers was not only the reaction of a narrow political clique. Many ordinary Slovenes accommodated themselves to the new rulers by serving within the military, administrative and economic machinery of the occupation. The motives behind collaboration ranged from selfish calculation, to the benign need to provide for one's family. Slovene collaborators promoted themselves and their policies of acquiescence as consistent with Slovene national and cultural values. In response, a fluctuating but nonetheless significant number of Slovenes believed that passivity rather than resistance was the best strategy in surviving the difficult years from 1941 to 1945. Collaboration was also not absolute. Some Slovenes resisted at the same time that they collaborated, or eventually abandoned collaboration outright at the opportune moment.

How long is Between the Star and the Swastika?

Between the Star and the Swastika by Gregor Joseph Kranjc is 846 pages long, and a total of 216,576 words.

This makes it 286% the length of the average book. It also has 265% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Between the Star and the Swastika Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 43 minutes to read Between the Star and the Swastika aloud.

What Reading Level is Between the Star and the Swastika?

Between the Star and the Swastika is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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