LEADER 04688cam a2200421Ia 4500001 136071 005 20240621182509.0 008 080117s2006 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3193570 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocn302267837 035 136071 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DB2742.G4 |bM66 2007 100 1 Morrissey, Christof Nikolaus. 245 10 National socialism and dissent among the ethnic Germans of Slovakia and Croatia, 1938-1945 / |cChristof Nikolaus Morrissey. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2006. 300 vii, 400 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2006. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-400). 520 The velvet revolutions of 1989-1991 that rearranged Europe's political map also altered the landscape of its historiography, creating new interest in "ethnic cleansing," particularly of Germans from the east and southeast following World War II. Since notions of "collective guilt" have always been implicit in the expulsion debate, historians might have been expected to shift their attention to the experiences of these Germans under Nazism in the years before 1945, Surprisingly, Christof Morrissey's study on the Germans of Slovakia and Croatia represents one of the earliest attempts to analyze ethnic German diasporas under Nazism using current understandings of how the dictatorship functioned in ordinary people's lives and drawing on post-1989 research into the Nazi racial empire.Histories of ethnic Germans under National Socialism traditionally fall into one of two categories. The majority, often written by "expellee" authors, focus exclusively on one German "ethnic group," defined by the international boundaries of the day. Most others approach the subject from the vantage point of Berlin's foreign and "Germandom" policies, only rarely considering views from within the diasporas. Anthropological or social-historical studies, for example of German migration to the Danube basin, sometimes transcend such conceptual limitations but usually only touch on Nazism as the tragic closing chapter of a much longer history. Morrissey breaks these molds. His study of Germans in two of the Reich's "client states" considers their experiences in the context both of Reich policies and their Slavic "host countries." He examines how ethnic German experiences varied, not only between states but between regions and social groups. In doing so, Morrissey lends a voice to a wide range of actors who represent dissenting (and consenting) viewpoints and testify to considerable diversity within the German populations.Employing the concepts "dissent" and "fields of conflict" defined by religion, political ideology, class, and ethnic identity, Morrissey identifies and explores "fault lines" within ethnic German populations to reconstruct how different groups and individuals responded to National Socialism. In addition to outlining particulars of ethnic German experiences in Slovakia and Croatia, he illuminates the general nature of Nazism in the diasporas.Morrissey draws on organizational, regional, and state archives in Germany, Slovakia, and Croatia. He makes extensive use of archival material previously unexplored in Western historiography, while integrating memoirs and expellee histories as both primary and secondary sources. National Socialism and Dissent among the Ethnic Germans of Slovakia and Croatia, 1938-1945 contributes to the growing scholarship on individual and group behavior under National Socialism, the emerging body of work on ethnic Germans in the Nazi racial empire, and the literature on interethnic relations. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2007. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Germans |zSlovakia |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Germans |zCroatia |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Slovakia |xHistory |y1918-1945. 651 0 Croatia |xHistory |y1918-1945. 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1014335291&sid=7&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib136071/3193570.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hDB2742.G4 |iM66 2007 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook