Output details
30 - History
University of Nottingham
Mobilisierung oder Erfassung? Studentischer Aktivismus und deutsche 'Volkstumsarbeit' in Jugoslawien und Rumänien 1933-1941
This article examines the activism of National Socialist students in relation to areas of German-speaking settlement in Yugoslavia and Romania during the period 1933-41. This activism was part of wider attempts during the interwar period to incorporate far-flung and scattered enclaves of German-speakers in eastern and south-eastern Europe into a wider notion of ‘Germandom’ and to investigate their ‘biological’ and economic condition. Nazi student activism combined a political mission to German minorities abroad with the accumulation of ‘ethnocratic expertise’ about them. The article also points to the subsequent careers that some student activists pursued within the Nazi resettlement programme.