Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe

<p>This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of the Holocaust. The approach breaks with the national narratives and "top-down" political and military histories that continue to be the predominant paradigms for the Second World War in this part of Europe.</p> <p></p><p>List of Contributors</p><p></p><p>List of maps</p><p></p><p>List of figures</p><p></p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p></p><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p></p><p>Local Approaches to the Second World War in Southeastern Europe: An Introduction</p><p>Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica</p><p></p><p>PART I – GROUP-MAKING AS A PROCESS</p><p></p><p>Chapter 1 – Heirs of the Roman Empire? Aromanians and the Fascist Occupation of Greece (1941-1943)</p><p>Paolo Fonzi</p><p>Chapter 2 – "The Task of the Century:" Local Dimensions of the Policy of Forced Conversion in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1942)</p><p>Daniela Simon</p><p>Chapter 3 – Forced Identities: The Use of the Category "Yugoslav" to Classify Inmates in the Mauthausen, Buchenwald and Dachau Nazi Concentration Camps (1941-1945)</p><p>Thomas Porena</p><p></p><p>PART II – LOCAL DYNAMICS OF VIOLENCE</p><p></p><p>Chapter 4 – Controlling Space and People: War, Territoriality and Population Engineering in Greece during the 1940s</p><p>Polymeris Voglis</p><p>Chapter 5 – Spatial and Temporal Logics of Violence: The Independent State of Croatia in the Districts of Glina and Vrginmost (April 1941-January 1942)</p><p>Drago Roksandić</p><p>Chapter 6 – Dynamics of Unrestrained Violence: The Massacre of Distomo (10 June 1944)</p><p>Janis Nalbadidacis</p><p></p><p>PART III – LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOLOCAUST</p><p></p><p>Chapter 7 – The Madding Clocks of Local Persecution: Anti-Jewish Policies under Bulgarian Occupation (1941-1943)</p><p>Nadège Ragaru</p><p>Chapter 8 – Resistance or Collaboration? The Greek Christian Elites of Thessaloniki facing the Holocaust (1941-1943)</p><p>Leon Saltiel</p><p>Chapter 9 – Being a Jew in Zagreb in 1941: Life and Death of Lovoslav Schick</p><p>Marija Vulesica</p><p></p><p>PART IV – EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION</p><p></p><p>Chapter 10 – Escape into Normality: Entertainment and Propaganda in Belgrade during the Occupation (1941-1944)</p><p>Dejan Zec</p><p></p><p>EPILOGUE</p><p></p><p>(Re-)Scaling the Second World War: Regimes of Historicity and the Legacies of the Cold War in Europe</p><p>Sabine Rutar</p><p></p><p>Index</p>