| Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II Contributor(s): Zakic, Mirna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1316622959 ISBN-13: 9781316622957 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Eastern Europe - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 940.534 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 310 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna Zakic argues that the Banat Germans exercised great agency within the constraints imposed on them by Nazi ideology, with its expectations that ethnic Germans would collaborate with the invading Nazis. The book examines the incentives that the Nazis offered to collaboration and social dynamics within the Banat German community - between their Nazified leadership and the rank and file - as well as the various and ever-more damning forms collaboration took. The Banat Germans provided administrative and economic aid to the Nazi war effort, and took part in Nazi military operations in Yugoslav lands, the Holocaust and Aryanization. They ruled the Banat on the Nazis' behalf between 1941 and 1944, yet their wartime choices led ultimately to their disenfranchisement and persecution following the Nazis' defeat. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zakic, Mirna: - Mirna Zakic 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. |