Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II

A study of the German minority in the Serbian Banat during World War II, its self-perception and its collaboration with the Nazis.

List of contents

1. The Banat Germans from settlement to partial Nazification, 1699-1941; 2. Ethnic Germans and the invasion of Yugoslavia, 1941; 3. Ethnic German administration (1941) and community dynamics; 4. Privileges, economy, and relations with other groups; 5. Police and anti-partisan activity; 6. The Holocaust (1941-2) and Aryanization; 7. Ideology and propaganda; 8. The Waffen-SS division 'Prinz Eugen' and anti-partisan warfare in Yugoslavia, 1942-4.

About the author

Mirna Zakić received her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Maryland in 2011, and won the University's Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2012. She has been Assistant Professor of German History at Ohio University since 2011. In 2013–14 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation in residence at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Her article 'The Price of Belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, Land Redistribution and Aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941–1944' was published in the Journal of Contemporary History in 2014.

Summary

An in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna Zakic examines the incentives that the Nazis offered to collaboration and social dynamics within the Banat German community as well as the various and ever-more damning forms collaboration took.

Product details

• Authors: Mirna Zakic, Mirna (Ohio University) Zakic, Mirna Zakić
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107171848
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17184-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution