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A volume exploring the nationalization of ethnic German youth in interwar and World War II Yugoslavia, focusing on the ways in which political, ecclesiastical, cultural, and military agents from Germany colluded with local nationalist activists to inculcate Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans with divergent notions of "Germanness".
List of contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I: The Interwar Period, 1918-1941
- 1: National Education and Yugoslavia's Donauschwaben Minority Schools, 1918-1941
- 2: Alternate Fronts: Extra-Curricular Youth Groups and the Interwar Nationalization of Yugoslavia's Donauschwaben
- Part II: The Western Banat, 1941-1944
- 3: Forging Germans under Germany: Conditions of Occupation in the Western Banat, 1941-1944
- 4: Mobilizing on Germany's Frontier: The Banat's Ethnic German Youth in the Deutsche Jugend and the Waffen-SS, 1941-1944
- Part III : The Batschka, 1941-1944
- 5: Forging Germans under Hungary: Conditions of Occupation in the Batschka, 1941-1944
- 6: Mobilizing across Borders: The Batschka's Donauschwaben in German and Hungarian Youth and Military Formations, 1941-1944
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Select Bibliography
About the author
Caroline Mezger is an historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She holds degrees in history from Yale University and Central European University (Budapest), as well as a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence). Her research focuses on the twentieth-century history of Central and Southeastern Europe, World War II and the Holocaust, borderland minorities, migration, communication, and the history of childhood and youth. As of June 2019, she is Junior Research Group Leader of the international, Leibniz Association-funded project 'Man hört, man spricht': Informal Communication and Information 'From Below' in Nazi Europe.
Summary
A volume exploring the nationalization of ethnic German youth in interwar and World War II Yugoslavia, focusing on the ways in which political, ecclesiastical, cultural, and military agents from Germany colluded with local nationalist activists to inculcate Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans with divergent notions of "Germanness".
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Written on the basis of extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this excellently written monograph can thus be regarded as the most valuable study on the subject to date, which skillfully describes the many facets of German self-understanding at the time.
