The Racial Idea in the Independent State of Croatia

The Racial Idea in the Independent State of Croatia
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9789004262829
ISBN-13 : 9004262822
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Synopsis The Racial Idea in the Independent State of Croatia by : Nevenko Bartulin

This book traces the intellectual origins of race theory in the pro-Nazi Ustasha Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945. This race theory was not, as historians of the Ustasha state have hitherto argued, a product of a practical accommodation to the dominant Nazi racial ideology. Contrary to the general historiographical view, which has either downplayed or ignored the important place of race, not only in Ustasha ideology and politics, but more generally in modern Croatian and Yugoslav nationalism, this work stresses the significant role that theories of ethnolinguistic origin and racial anthropology played in defining Croat nationhood from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Upon the basis of older ideological and cultural traditions, the Ustasha state constructed an ideal Aryan racial type.

When Courage Prevailed

When Courage Prevailed
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Publisher : Paragon House
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1557788944
ISBN-13 : 9781557788948
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis When Courage Prevailed by : Esther Gitman

A historical study of the treatment of Jews in Yugoslavia after Nazi ideology was adopted, with an emphasis on the ways Jews survived and were rescued by those who put their own lives in great peril. When Courage Prevailed examines the ways Jews were rescued and survived in a country which the Ustaše, with their roots in Yugoslavia's nationality conflicts and politics, adopted the Nazi ideology which emphasized that there could be no compromise in regard to the Jewish Question and the Final Solution: no Jews deserved rescue. Survival of Jews was complicated by Yugoslavia's dismemberment at the hands of the Axis Powers; Germany and Italy and its satellites and puppets. The Nazi propaganda machine advocated that Jews must be exterminated for the good of the Aryans which included the Volksdeutsche, (Yugoslav of German ancestry), the Croats and the Muslims. Those who dared to defy German commands suffered severe penalties.

Honorary Aryans

Honorary Aryans
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9781137339126
ISBN-13 : 1137339128
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Honorary Aryans by : N. Bartulin

From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and how the "Croats of the Mosaic faith" were eventually rejected as racial aliens.

Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945

Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781496211323
ISBN-13 : 1496211324
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 by : Anton Weiss-Wendt

In Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1938–1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial science, preexisting racist sentiments, and pseudoscientific theories of race that were preeminent in interwar Europe ultimately facilitated Nazi racial designs for a “New Europe.” The volume examines racial theories in a number of European nation-states in order to understand racial thinking at large, the origins of the Holocaust, and the history of ethnic discrimination in each of those countries. The essays, by uncovering neglected layers of complexity, diversity, and nuance, demonstrate how local discourse on race paralleled Nazi racial theory but had unique nationalist intellectual traditions of racial thought. Written by rising scholars who are new to English-language audiences, this work examines the scientific foundations that central, eastern, northern, and southern European countries laid for ethnic discrimination, the attempted annihilation of Jews, and the elimination of other so-called inferior peoples.

Joining Hitler's Crusade

Joining Hitler's Crusade
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9781316510346
ISBN-13 : 1316510344
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Joining Hitler's Crusade by : David Stahel

A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Visions of Annihilation

Visions of Annihilation
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9780822977933
ISBN-13 : 0822977931
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Visions of Annihilation by : Rory Yeomans

The fascist Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyzes the Ustasha movement's use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies. He shows how the movement attempted to mobilize poets, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and intellectuals as purveyors of propaganda and visionaries of a utopian society. Meanwhile, newspapers, radio, and speeches called for the expulsion, persecution, or elimination of "alien" and "enemy" populations to purify the nation. He describes how the dual concepts of annihilation and national regeneration were disseminated to the wider population and how they were interpreted at the grassroots level. Yeomans examines the Ustasha movement in the context of other fascist movements in Europe. He cites their similar appeals to idealistic youth, the economically disenfranchised, racial purists, social radicals, and Catholic clericalists. Yeomans further demonstrates how fascism created rituals and practices that mimicked traditional religious faiths and celebrated martyrdom. Visions of Annihilation chronicles the foundations of the Ustasha movement, its key actors and ideologies, and reveals the unique cultural, historical, and political conditions present in interwar Croatia that led to the rise of fascism and contributed to the cataclysmic events that tore across the continent.

Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia

Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9783030502591
ISBN-13 : 3030502597
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia by : Vedran Duančić

This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia – a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works describing interwar Yugoslavia, the book focuses on the engagement of geographers in the on-going political conflict over the national question. Duančić shows that geographers were uniquely equipped to address the creation of the new country and the numerous problems it faced, as they provided accounts of Yugoslavia’s past, present, and even future, all of which were understood as inherently embedded in geography. By analyzing a large body of geographical narratives on the Yugoslav state, the book follows both the attempts to “naturalize” and present Yugoslavia as a sustainable political and cultural unit, as well as the attempts to challenge its existence by pointing to unresolvable, geographically conditioned tensions within it. The book approaches geographical discourse in Yugoslavia as part of a wider European scientific network, pointing to similarities and specifically Yugoslav characteristics.

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 968
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ISBN-10 : 9789004471054
ISBN-13 : 9004471057
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina by : Francine Friedman

A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945

The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : 9781472533562
ISBN-13 : 1472533569
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 by : Marius Turda

The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages into English for the first time and key contributions from leading scholars in the field from around Europe. This volume examines the main eugenic organisations, as well as individuals and policies that shaped eugenics in Austria, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. It also explores the ways in which ethnic minorities interacted with national and international eugenics discourses to advance their own aims and ambitions, whilst providing a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of eugenics in East-Central Europe more generally. Complete with a glossary of terms, a list of all eugenic societies and journals from these countries, as well as a comprehensive bibliography, The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 is a pivotal reference work for students, researchers and academics interested in East-Central Europe and the history of science and national identity in the 20th century.