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Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944
Contributor(s): Mezger, Caroline (Author)
ISBN: 0198850166     ISBN-13: 9780198850168
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $104.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
- History | Military - World War Ii
- History | Eastern Europe - General
Dewey: 949.71
LCCN: 2020930973
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 368 pages
 
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative approach, Caroline Mezger
investigates the experiences of ethnic German children and youth in interwar Yugoslavia and under Hungarian and German occupation during World War II, as local and Third Reich cultural, religious, political, and military organizations wrestled over young people's national (self-) identification and
loyalty. Ethnic German children and youth targeted by these nationalization endeavors moved beyond being the objects of nationalist activism to become agents of nationalization themselves, as they actively negotiated, redefined, proselytized, lived, and died for the Germanness ascribed to them.
Interweaving original oral history interviews, untapped archival materials from Germany, Hungary, and Serbia, and diverse historical press sources, Forging Germans provides incisive insight into the experiences and memories of one of Europe's most contested wartime demographics, probing the
relationship between larger historical circumstances and individual agency and subjectivity.