Kaksi eri teosta nimeltä "Between Hitler and Tito" - kukaan lukenut?

Aika äskettäin ilmestynyt myös Cambridgen yliopiston julkaisema "Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II".

Tekijä on Mirna Zakić.

Synopsiksesta: "The Banat Germans provided administrative and economic aid to the Nazi war effort, and took part in Nazi military operations in Yugoslav lands, the Holocaust and Aryanization. They ruled the Banat on the Nazis' behalf between 1941 and 1944, yet their wartime choices led ultimately to their disenfranchisement and persecution following the Nazis' defeat."


Mirna Zakić

Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II

Cambridge University Press

Katsoin tuon aloituslinkin listaamia teoksia ja silmään pisti I-kirjaimen kohdalla Anne Jung Holdenin "In search of a warm room".

"An unforgettable story of her family's life as ethnic Germans pre-WWII Yugoslavia. This story of exile and suffering in Yugoslavia toward the end of WWII attests to the fact that Jews were not the only ethnic group targeted during the war."

Eli kattaa siis Jugoslavian historiaa ENNEN toista maailmansotaa.


Anne Jung Holden
In search of a warm room

P.S. Olisi kiva, että näistä asioista voisi puhua objektiivisesti ilman, että tarvitsee jatkuvasti ilmiantaa ylläpidolle natsipellejen kommentteja. Saman tonavansvaabilais-sivuston linkki mainitsee toisen erityisen huomion arvoisen teoksen (F-kirjaimen kohdalta, täydempi synopsis Amazonista):

"The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."

"During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war's end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.

"The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil."

Ulrich Merten
Forgotten Voices: The Expulsion of the German from Eastern Europe After World War II