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Deutsche Kulturpolitik und öffentliche Meinung in Südosteuropa. Die Wiener Presse- und Kulturberichte Südosteuropa

Public opinion in the Balkans was monitored regularly between 1939 and 1945, and press digests were regularly returned form the region’s capitals to Vienna for further distribution in the Reich. These reports focussed on public responses to Axis policies and German propaganda, and they provided intelligence on the qualified support for German leadership in Europe. The more conservative ‘cultural’ themes of Germany’s new order ideology resounded well with local elites, but the more radical political implications of Nazi plans for the political and economic re-ordering of the continent were perceived as an encroachment of the national sovereignty of ‘small’ states.