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The Tragedy of Bleiburg and Viktring, 1945
The atrocities and mass murders committed by Josip Broz Tito's Partisan units of the Yugoslav Army immediately after the Second World War had no place in the conscience of Socialist Yugoslavia. More than once, the annual Croatian commemoration of the Bleiburg victims was subject to attacks carried out by the socialist Yugoslav state. Abroad in the West, on Austrian soil, the Yugoslav secret service (UDBA) did not shy away from murdering the protagonist of the Croatian memory culture, Nicola Martinovic, as late as 1975. The official history was aligned with a firm interpretational paradigm that called for a glorification of the anti-fascist "people's liberation resistance." With the breakup o...
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Violence analyzes both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena. Throughout the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was hit particularly hard by war, violence and repression, with armed conflicts in the Balkans at the start and end of the period and two world wars in between. In the shadow of these full-scale wars, ethnic, social and national conflicts were intensified, found new forms and were violently played out. The interwar period witness...
Der Überfall
25. Mai 1944. Im Morgengrauen springen über dem bosnischen Bergstädtchen Drvar Hunderte deutsche SS-Luftlandesoldaten mit Fallschirmen ab oder landen per Gleitsegler. Der Kampfauftrag des Bewährungsbataillons: das Zentrum der jugoslawischen Partisanen zerschlagen und deren Führer Marschall Tito fassen - tot oder lebendig. Weitere deutsche Einheiten, darunter die SS-Division "Prinz Eugen", kesseln Drvar weiträumig ein. Es ist der letzte großangelegte Versuch der Deutschen, den Kriegsverlauf auf dem Balkan nochmals zu wenden. Was die SS nicht weiß: Tito verschanzt sich mit seinem Stab in einer entlegenen Berghöhle. Für die Fallschirmjäger beginnt ein Kampf gegen die Zeit. Und schon b...
The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe
The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the “memory wars” in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how “mnemonic warriors” employ the “Holocaust template” and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the “universalization of the Holocaust” as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the “double genocide” paradigm, on...
Verdrängen, Vergessen, Erinnern
Daran lag es wohl, dass medizinische Erkenntnisse über seelische individuelle Erfahrungen und deren kollektive Wirksamkeit erst an der Wende zum 21. Jahrhundert ernst genommen, von der Geschichtswissenschaft jedoch nicht bzw. nur als Randerscheinungen erfasst wurden. Daher wurden auch literarische Darstellungen und Kinder- bzw. Jugendpublikationen in historische Darstellungen nicht einbezogen, sofern geschichtliches Geschehen dargestellt werden sollte. Daraus entstanden eigentlich unvollständige Veröffentlichungen zum Holocaust, zum Holodomor, auch zu den Vertreibungen nach 1945, ja selbst bis in die Balkan-Jugoslawienkriege des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Das vorliegende Buch des (Oste...
Historical Dictionary of Slovenia
The expanded third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Slovenia covers personalities and events that have made a mark on Slovenia in the more than a decade since the last edition. This includes new entries related to Slovenia’s first 13 years as a member of NATO and the EU, changing diplomatic relations with its neighbors and other global states and institutions, a new crop of politicians who have upended the political status quo, entries related to Slovenia’s worst 21st century recession (2008-2013), nationwide protests against corruption, and many other developments. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Slovenia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Slovenia.
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany
This historical study “persuasively links the reception of Yugoslav migrants to West Germany’s shifting relationship to the Nazi past . . . essential reading” (Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure). During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however. Immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers since the end of the Second World War. In fact, Yugoslavs became the country’s second largest immigrant group. Yet their impact has received little critical attention until now. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells...
Rekrutierungen für die Waffen-SS in Südosteuropa
Welche Vorteile erhoffen sich Menschen, wenn sie mit Okkupationsregimes zusammenarbeiten? Welche Nachteile drohen ihnen, wenn sie es nicht tun? Diese Fragen lassen sich wie ein Prisma auf die Rekrutierungen für die Waffen-SS während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Südosteuropa anwenden und auffächern. Die vorliegende Studie erklärt Absichten, Strategien und Handlungsspielräume der Besatzungsmächte, nationaler und lokaler Eliten sowie Motivation und Handlungszwänge einzelner Individuen vor dem jeweiligen lokalen Hintergrund. Im Fokus stehen dabei die drei südosteuropäischen Waffen-SS-Divisionen "Handschar", "Skanderbeg" und "Kama" und die aus ethnischen Deutschen rekrutierte Division "Prinz Eugen". Die Rekrutierungen für diese vier Divisionen umfassten sechs Staaten und weitere Grenzgebiete. In ihnen dienten Angehörige aus bis zu fünfzehn Nationen. Diese multikulturelle Zusammensetzung hatte Auswirkungen auf Rekrutierung und Alltag, aber auch auf Operationen und die Austragung interethnischer Konflikte.
Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria
Robert Knight's book examines how the 60,000 strong Slovene community in the Austrian borderland province of Carinthia continued to suffer in the wake of Nazism's fall. It explores how and why Nazi values continued to be influential in a post-Nazi era in postwar Central Europe and provides valuable insights into the Cold War as a point of interaction of local, national and international politics. Though Austria was re-established in 1945 as Hitler's 'first victim', many Austrians continued to share principles which had underpinned the Third Reich. Long treated as both inferior and threatening prior to the rise of Hitler and then persecuted during his time in power, the Slovenes of Carinthia ...
