The first to resist

The publication provides a comprehensive overview of the Resistance movement of Slavs in Italy 1918-1941, according to the author “the first to resist”. The origins of the Slavs on the Adriatic coast and their unique history is recounted in the beginning chapters. The results of the First World War was the creation of a Slavic Yugoslavia which included the majority of the Slovenian people, but 500,000 Slovenes and 200,000 Croats were put under Italian rule. This rule led to the creation of a resistance movement before the War started. The trial of 71 Slovenes in Trieste in December 1941 is given as an example to demonstrate the harsh authority of the Italian rule. The third part of the booklet focuses on “the contribution of an oppressed minority to the war effort of democracies against Fascism”. The chapter is divided into the following sub-categories: Activity during the Second World War, information, propaganda and defeatism, and sabotage. The last chapter concentrates on the trial proceedings in Trieste from 1-15th December 1941. The “present struggle” (1945) completes of the pamphlet.