Forging Germans

A volume exploring the nationalization of ethnic German youth in interwar and World War II Yugoslavia, focusing on the ways in which political, ecclesiastical, cultural, and military agents from Germany colluded with local nationalist activists to inculcate Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans with divergent notions of "Germanness".

Caroline Mezger is an historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She holds degrees in history from Yale University and Central European University (Budapest), as well as a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence). Her research focuses on the twentieth-century history of Central and Southeastern Europe, World War II and the Holocaust, borderland minorities, migration, communication, and the history of childhood and youth. As of June 2019, she is Junior Research Group Leader of the international, Leibniz Association-funded project 'Man hört, man spricht': Informal Communication and Information 'From Below' in Nazi Europe.

Prologue
Introduction
Part I: The Interwar Period, 1918-1941
1: National Education and Yugoslavia's Donauschwaben Minority Schools, 1918-1941
2: Alternate Fronts: Extra-Curricular Youth Groups and the Interwar Nationalization of Yugoslavia's Donauschwaben
Part II: The Western Banat, 1941-1944
3: Forging Germans under Germany: Conditions of Occupation in the Western Banat, 1941-1944
4: Mobilizing on Germany's Frontier: The Banat's Ethnic German Youth in the Deutsche Jugend and the Waffen-SS, 1941-1944
Part III : The Batschka, 1941-1944
5: Forging Germans under Hungary: Conditions of Occupation in the Batschka, 1941-1944
6: Mobilizing across Borders: The Batschka's Donauschwaben in German and Hungarian Youth and Military Formations, 1941-1944
Conclusion
Appendix
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