Projektnummer

0056479

Zusammenfassung

My proposed monograph, The Furthest Watch of the Reich: National Socialism and Ethnic Germans, 1941-1944, will examine the relations between the Third Reich and the Volksdeutsche of Southeast Europe within the context of the occupation of parts of the Yugoslav lands by the former during World War II. This project departs from the trends evident in the historiography of this period: a reduction of these relations to a top-down imposition unmodified by the Volksdeutsche's local concerns and experiences (in English-language literature), a legitimizing national 'myth' about unqualified col...