Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II

by Mirna Zakić

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.

Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2017

About the author

Mirna Zakić je rođena 1982. godine u Beogradu. Završila je Filološku gimnaziju i Američki univerzitet u Bugarskoj. Trenutno radi doktorat iz istorije na Univerzitetu Merilend u SAD. Objavila je zbirku priča "Vremenski portali" i poetsku zbirku "Ars oratoria". Prevela je zbirku priča Andžele Karter "Krvava odaja".

Reviews

[Jessica Kaisk · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointingly biased with little fact.