1st Edition
Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe
This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of the Holocaust. The approach breaks with the national narratives and "top-down" political and military histories that continue to be the predominant paradigms for the Second World War in this part of Europe.
List of Contributors
List of maps
List of figures
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Local Approaches to the Second World War in Southeastern Europe: An Introduction
Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica
PART I – GROUP-MAKING AS A PROCESS
Chapter 1 – Heirs of the Roman Empire? Aromanians and the Fascist Occupation of Greece (1941-1943)
Paolo Fonzi
Chapter 2 – "The Task of the Century:" Local Dimensions of the Policy of Forced Conversion in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1942)
Daniela Simon
Chapter 3 – Forced Identities: The Use of the Category "Yugoslav" to Classify Inmates in the Mauthausen, Buchenwald and Dachau Nazi Concentration Camps (1941-1945)
Thomas Porena
PART II – LOCAL DYNAMICS OF VIOLENCE
Chapter 4 – Controlling Space and People: War, Territoriality and Population Engineering in Greece during the 1940s
Polymeris Voglis
Chapter 5 – Spatial and Temporal Logics of Violence: The Independent State of Croatia in the Districts of Glina and Vrginmost (April 1941-January 1942)
Drago Roksandić
Chapter 6 – Dynamics of Unrestrained Violence: The Massacre of Distomo (10 June 1944)
Janis Nalbadidacis
PART III – LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOLOCAUST
Chapter 7 – The Madding Clocks of Local Persecution: Anti-Jewish Policies under Bulgarian Occupation (1941-1943)
Nadège Ragaru
Chapter 8 – Resistance or Collaboration? The Greek Christian Elites of Thessaloniki facing the Holocaust (1941-1943)
Leon Saltiel
Chapter 9 – Being a Jew in Zagreb in 1941: Life and Death of Lovoslav Schick
Marija Vulesica
PART IV – EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION
Chapter 10 – Escape into Normality: Entertainment and Propaganda in Belgrade during the Occupation (1941-1944)
Dejan Zec
EPILOGUE
(Re-)Scaling the Second World War: Regimes of Historicity and the Legacies of the Cold War in Europe
Sabine Rutar
Index
Biography
Xavier Bougarel is Researcher at the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC), CNRS, Paris, France.
Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Marija Vulesica is Researcher at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
