Im Schatten des Weltkriegs: Massengewalt der Ustaša gegen Serben, Juden und Roma in Kroatien, 1941–1945, Alexander Korb (Hamburg: Hamburg Edition, 2013), 510 pp., paperback €28.00, electronic version available
In this monograph, Alexander Korb explores the sources, role, and impact of violence under Ustaša misrule. Propelled onto the historical stage as the Axis powers dismembered Yugoslavia, this self-delusional, murderous group of fanatics sought to transform “a multiethnic society into a homogeneous en...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 330-332 |
| Review of: | Im Schatten des Weltkriegs (Hamburg : Hamburger Ed., 2014) (Black, Peter)
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| Summary: | In this monograph, Alexander Korb explores the sources, role, and impact of violence under Ustaša misrule. Propelled onto the historical stage as the Axis powers dismembered Yugoslavia, this self-delusional, murderous group of fanatics sought to transform “a multiethnic society into a homogeneous entity,” creating in Croatia “an unmanageable violent space … [where] even the German occupiers no longer felt safe. …” (pp. 432–33, 437). Ultimately the Ustaše took the lives of more than 310,000 Serbs, 26,000 Jews, and 20,000 Roma. The Ustaša-imagined ethnic nation offered space for Muslims and for some Serbs and Jews divorced from their ethnic-religious identity. It thus reflected ethnic distribution in enlarged Croatia, where Croats constituted 51% of the population (p. 78). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu023 |