During Europe's 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however; immigrants from the Balkans have ...streamed into West Germany in massive numbers throughout the long postwar era.Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germanytells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political emigres, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. While Yugoslavs made up the second largest immigrant group in the country, their impact has received little critical attention until now. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a key way in which Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war.
Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European ...communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in this work is largely based on media reporting and comment between the years 2005-15. From this basis a solid, informative background to the explosive mass Muslim immigration to Europe and the terror, conflict, racism, religious, social and political clashes of today is framed. No other scholarly work, yet one written in an empirical, attainable style, succeeds in presenting a more comprehensive, coherent and cohesive overview of the elements behind the headline-making news emerging from the tumultuous state which is Europe today.
Accident of fate Rochlitz, Imre; Rochlitz, Joseph
Accident of fate,
c2011, 2011, 2011-07-07
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Offers an account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. This book helps to clarify and render accessible the complexities and contradictions of conflict and ...genocide in wartime Yugoslavia.
The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully ...integrated American, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past.
After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, no-one was prepared for the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Suddenly old terms like chetnik and ustasha found new currency, and a new term surfaced – ...'ethnic cleansing' – with its sickening echo of 'final solution'. The upsurge of nationalist sentiment in Eastern Europe raises the question whether the wars in the former Yugoslavia are harbingers of things to come. Will the racist idea of the ethnically pure state crush the humanist ideal of the multicultural society? Yugoslavian Inferno provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of Yugoslavia and the ensuing fratricidal warfare. It pays particular attention to the role of religion in fanning the flames of interethnic hatred and is written by a scholar uniquely placed to write it. A Yugoslavian- American with roots in both Croatia and Serbia, whose religious tradition is Protestant, rather than Catholic, Orthodox, or Muslim, Paul Mojzes is an internationally recognized authority on religion in Eastern Europe. Based on travels in the region, interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, as well as news accounts and monographs in generally inaccessible languages, and formulated after a lifetime of scholarly achievement, Yugoslavian Inferno presents insights that only a native can provide and the critical objectivity that only an outsider can offer.
Making Yugoslavs Nielsen, Christian Axboe
Making Yugoslavs,
2014, 20141015, 2014, 2014-10-15, 2014-11-05
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Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of King Aleksandar's dictatorship's program of forced nationalization in the interwar era.
U radu se na osnovi izvora, literature i tiska analiziraju napori jugoslavenske diplomacije u cilju ekstradicije bivšega poglavnika Nezavisne Države Hrvatske Ante Pavelića tijekom pedesetih godina ...prošloga stoljeća i reakcije argentinskih državnih organa na te zahtjeve. Posebna pozornost obraća se na političku pozadinu tih reakcija i djelovanje jugoslavenskoga predstavništva u Buenos Airesu.
The former leader of the Independent State of Croatia Ante Pavelić was in Argentina from November 1948. Yugoslav diplomats found out about this in the following months. In the first period they gathered information considering Pavelićʼs whereabouts and susbmitted formal inquiries to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When Pavelićʼs activities became more frequent and more organized, especially with the forming of his government in exile, Yugoslav diplomacy decided to act. In May 1951, the formal extradition was asked. It appears that Argentina never officially replied to the request. The Yugoslav side continued to put pressure on the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which made them change their tactics. Obviously, in agreement with Pavelić himself, they tried to make it appear that he had left Argentina and moved to Uruguay. In order to support this hypothesis, Pavelić made his speeches through Radio Montevideo and in interviews, he insisted that journalists write that he was anywhere but Argentina. Argentine officials also spread rumors that he was in Uruguay in conversations with Yugoslav colleagues. Very soon they saw through this game because it was clear that Pavelić was still in Buenos Aires. In the following years there was a similar game. Yugoslav diplomacy tried to convince Argentine colleagues that Pavelić was in their country and they that he was not. The fall of the Peron regime in 1955, did not change the situation. The Yugoslav side tried to use the animosity that the new government had for its predecessors but with little success. Only in 1957 did the situation change as a result of an assassination attempt on Pavelić. At that point it was clear that he was still in Buenos Aires. Yugoslav diplomacy made another request for his extradition only a few days after the assassination attempt. The pressure that was exerted led Pavelić to go into hiding, first in Argentina after which he fled to Chile and finally to Spain at the end of 1957. Unaware of the fact that Pavelić left Argentina, Yugoslav diplomacy continued to fight for his extradition in the following year. They changed tactics and asked for extradition, according to the Argentine law relating to common criminals. This attempt had a flaw in its design. The death penalty that obviously awaited Pavelić in Yugoslavia was not allowed by Argentine laws. The Yugoslav side put itself in a difficult situation because it could not bring itself to declare that Pavelić would not be sentenced to death after extradition. This urged them to slow down the process even more. Pavelićʼs death in 1959 put an end to this eight year long procedure for his extradition to Yugoslavia.
Debating the End of Yugoslavia Bieber, Florian; Galijas, Armina
2014, 20160513, 2016-05-13, 2016-05-20, 2014-10-28
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Countries rarely disappear off the map. In the 20th century, only a few countries shared this fate with Yugoslavia. The dissolution of Yugoslavia led to the largest war in Europe since 1945, massive ...human rights violations and over 100,000 victims. Debating the End of Yugoslavia is less an attempt to re-write the dissolution of Yugoslavia, or to provide a different narrative, than to take stock and reflect on the scholarship to date. New sources and data offer fresh avenues of research avoiding the passion of the moment that often characterized research published during the wars and provide contemporary perspectives on the dissolution. The book outlines the state of the debate rather than focusing on controversies alone and maps how different scholarly communities have reflected on the dissolution of the country, what arguments remain open in scholarly discourse and highlights new, innovative paths to study the period.
