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Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II
Mirna Zakic
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Description for Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II
hardcover. A study of the German minority in the Serbian Banat during World War II, its self-perception and its collaboration with the Nazis. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFFP; JFSL1; JKSW1; JPFF; JPFN; JPFQ; JPVN; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107171848
SKU
V9781107171848
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Ref
99-16
About Mirna Zakic
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-Universitat Freiburg, Germany. Her article 'The Price of ... Read more
Reviews for Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II
'Zakic's well-argued microhistory shows how Banat Germans used Nazism for local purposes, even as it implicated them in Nazi atrocities. It lays bare how Nazi ideology bent to wartime practicalities in this politically-charged region of Europe.' John Eicher, German Historical Institute, Washington DC 'Mirna Zakic's compelling and often surprising account of the ethnic Germans of Yugoslavia proves how much there ... Read more