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Discusses, inter alia, antisemitism in Slavonia and the political events of the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia, the puppet state founded by Nazi Germany in 1941. Argues that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany caused the German-Jewish symbiosis in Slavonia to disintegrate once and for all. Antisemitism had been widespread among local Germans already before the outbreak of the war in 1914. Antisemitic tendencies appeared in the 1920s, subsided for a while, and then broke out with full force in 1940, when all cooperation between Germans and Jews in Slavonia came to a halt. In 1941-42 almost all the Jews in Slavonia, including its largest city, Osijek, were murdered. This happened through cooperation between the Ustaše regime and the Reichssicherheitsamt. The Deutsche Volksgruppen organization also participated in the anti-Jewish propaganda and the Aryanization process, and some worked as guards in the concentration camp in Loborgrad. The fact that this group had the same mother-tongue as the Jews did not prevent them from participating in the persecutions. However, some German-speaking Croatians did oppose the killings.
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Mere decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the promise of European democracy seems to be out of joint. What has become of the once-shared memory of victory over fascism? Historical revisionism and nationalist propaganda in the post-Yugoslav context have tried to eradicate the legacy of partisan and socialist struggles, while Yugonostalgia commodifies the partisan/socialist past. It is against these dominant ‘archives’ that this book launches the partisan counter-archive, highlighting the symbolic power of artistic works that echo and envision partisan legacy and rupture. It comprises a body of works that emerged either during the people's liberation struggle or in later socialist ...
This title was first published in 2000. One of the most comprehensive overviews of regional development and policy emergence in the Central and East European countries to date, this book focuses on economic and social cohesion, bringing together a wide range of empirical research and discussion material.
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This title recounts the history of para-cinema - the long tradition within the avant garde of adapting the tools, technologies, and techniques of conventionalfilm-making. Levi's study considers works by filmmakers, artists, and theorists from France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
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