Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South-East: Mobility and Transnational Transfers between Nazi Germany and the South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’

Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South-East: Mobility and Transnational Transfers between Nazi Germany and the South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’

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George Barițiu Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas e. V. an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
PLZ
400001
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Cluj
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Romania
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Vom - Bis
07.07.2022 - 09.07.2022
Von
Ralf Grabuschnig, Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas

This international conference aims to open a debate about the flow of discursive tropes and political practices between Nazi Germany and South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’, but also the entanglements connecting the Nazi movements within the German ethnic groups in the region.

Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South-East: Mobility and Transnational Transfers between Nazi Germany and the South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’

This international conference aims to open a debate about the flow of discursive tropes and political practices between Nazi Germany and South-Eastern European ‘Volksdeutsche’, but also the entanglements connecting the Nazi movements within the German ethnic groups in the region. The discussion will focus on transnational mobility and transfers as a key component of the emergence and structure of Nazi movements within the German minorities in Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Among the aspects of this topic which need further inquiry, we mention issues such as:

(1) youth mobility from German minorities in South-Eastern Europe to Nazi Germany; networks of personal relations created by this mobility and its role in the assimilation of Nazi ideology;

(2) the role of the transnational networks of personal relations in structuring the leadership of local Nazi movements and transferring political practices;

(3) the circulation of Nazi ideological tropes, institutional models and practices between Germany and South-Eastern Europe, with a focus on how the local Nazi elite understood and adjusted them to the local context;

(4) the discursive practices aiming at eradicating the social, religious, and cultural identity differences between the German groups in Romania with a view to create a “Nazi racial community” (Volksgemeinschaft);

(5) the afterlife of the aforementioned transnational networks after World War II.

Programm

Thursday (July 7, 2022)

Venue: King Ferdinand I Aula, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Napoca street 11

9.00–9.30 Registration

9.30–9.45 Conference Welcome and Announcements

9.45–11.00 Panel 1: Building the Volksgemeinschaft: From Theoretical Approaches to National Case Studies (I)

Chair: Virgiliu Țârău (Cluj-Napoca)

Constantin Iordachi (Vienna): Studying Fascism from a Transnational Perspective: Methods and Case Studies

Rachel O’Sullivan (München): Creating the “Volksgemeinschaft” in Annexed Poland: Nazi Germany’s Resettlement and Assimilation Policies through a Colonial Lens

11.30–12.45 Panel 1: Building the Volksgemeinschaft: From Theoretical Approaches to National Case Studies (II)

Chair: Enikő Dácz (München)

Winson Chu (Milwaukee/Wisconsin): Deconstructing “Volksgemeinschaft”: Regionalism and the German Minorities in Interwar Poland

Florian Kührer-Wielach (München): Which Volk? Which Gemeinschaft? Romanian Germans Between Nation, Reich, and Region. The Long-term Perspective

14.00–16.15 Panel 2: Mechanisms of Radicalization of the Volksdeutsche: Inner and Outside Factors

Chair: Florian Kührer-Wielach (München)

Michal Schvarc (Bratislava): Billige und zuverlässige Arbeitskräfte? Anwerbung und Einsatz der Deutschen aus der Slowakei im „Dritten Reich“

Beáta Márkus (Pécs): Ungarndeutsche in der Waffen-SS. Freiwillige Meldung als Folge der Kontakte zum „Dritten Reich

Ottmar Trașcă (Cluj-Napoca): Unternehmen „Regulus”. Die Zusammenarbeit deutscher Geheimdienste mit der Deutschen Volksgruppe aus Rumänien und der Eisernen Garde zur Errichtung eines deutschfreundlichen Widerstandsnetzes in Rumänien (September 1944–Mai 1945)

Norbert Spannenberger (Leipzig): Ideologische Radikalisierung wegen Expansion? Der Volksbund der Deutschen in Ungarn 1940–44

16.45–18.00 Panel 3: Youth, Mobility and Transnational Networks (I)

Chair: Ottmar Trașcă (Cluj-Napoca)

Ingrid Schiel (Gundelsheim/N.): Mobilität von Jugendlichen im Rahmen der Volksgemeinschaft der Deutschen in Rumänien

Zsolt Vitári (Pécs): Jugendmobilisierung bei den Ungarndeutschen nach reichsdeutschem Muster?

Friday (July 8, 2022)

Venue: King Ferdinand I Aula, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Napoca street 11

9.00–10.45 Panel 3: Youth, Mobility and Transnational Networks (II)

Chair: Beáta Márkus (Pécs)

Pauli Aro (Florence): For the Suffering Children of Vienna. Vienna’s Banat Swabian Community Between German Solidarities

Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest): German-Romanian Student Networks and the Transnational Far Right during 1933–1944

Adrian Defta (Cluj-Napoca): Youth Organisations of the German Ethnic Group in Romania

11.00–12.45 Panel 4: Cultural Transfers and Entangled Far Right Ideologies

Chair: Ingrid Schiel (Gundelsheim/N.)

Claudia Spiridon-Șerbu (Brașov): Eigen- und Fremdbilder in der Lyrik des “Klingsor”

Enikő Dácz (München): Karl Kurt Klein und Heinrich Zillich als Gestalter des literarischen Transfers zwischen dem Dritten Reich und Rumänien

Timo Hagen (Bonn): Gab es eine nationalsozialistische Architektur in Siebenbürgen – und wenn ja, wie viele?

14.00–15.45 Panel 5: Press and Nazi Propaganda in South-Eastern Europe (I)

Chair: Philippe Henri Blasen (Iași)

Filip Krčmar (Zrenjanin): “Volk und Arbeit”: Case Study of a Nazi Magazine in the Interwar Yugoslavia

Mihai Panu (Timișoara): Organizational Infrastructure of Nazi Ideology in Banat: The Case of Youth Movements

Corneliu Pintilescu (Cluj-Napoca): Historical Myths and Nazi Propaganda in the German Language Press in Romania (1940–1944)

16.15–17.30 Panel 5: Press and Nazi Propaganda in South-Eastern Europe (II)

Chair: Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy (Cluj-Napoca)

Daniela Popescu (Cluj-Napoca): Romanian Perspectives on the Propaganda of the German Ethnic Group

Manuela Marin (Cluj-Napoca): “Two Souls in One Chest”: The Creation of the German Ethnic Group as Reflected in the Romanian Press. The Case Study: “Universul”

17.30–18.45 Panel 6: Antisemitism and the Radicalization of the German Minorities in South-Eastern Europe

Chair: Winson Chu (Milwaukee/Wisconsin)

Mariana Hausleitner (Berlin): Verbreitung des Antisemitismus bei den Deutschen in der Bukowina und Bessarabien 1933–1939

James Koranyi (Durham): Fascist Pioneers: Germans and Antisemitism in Interwar Romania

Saturday (July 9)

Venue: King Ferdinand I Aula, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Napoca street 11

9.00–10.15 Church and National Socialism in Romania

Chair: Rudolf Poledna (Cluj-Napoca)

Ulrich A. Wien (Landau): Infiltration and Dissolution of Church Youth Work in the Evang. Landeskirche (1933-1942)

Philippe Henri Blasen (Iași): Antisemitism in the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession: The Question of the Baptism of the Jews (1940-1944)

10.45–13.00 Uses and Misuses of the Files: The Nazi Past in the Secret Police Archives of the Eastern Bloc

Chair: Remus Gabriel Anghel (Cluj-Napoca)

Hannelore Baier (Sibiu): Die Instrumentalisierung der NS-Sympathien von Bischof Friedrich Müller durch die Securitate, um ihn von der Leitung der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. zu entfernen

Virgiliu Țârău (Cluj-Napoca): Turning Old Files into New Ones: How the Securitate Seized and Instrumentalized the Former Archives of the German Ethnic Group in Romania

Stefan Lehr (Oldenburg): Die Instrumentalisierung der NS-Vergangenheit von Funktionären der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft und des Witiko-Bundes durch die sozialistische Tschechoslowakei

William Totok (Berlin): Nachrichtendienstliche Überwachung und Unterwanderung der Rumäniendeutschen durch die Securitate

14.30–16.00 Guided tour of the old town in Cluj

This conference is organized by the George Barițiu Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in partnership with the Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas e. V. an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München within the project “Building a Nazi Racial Community in the South-East: A Transnational Perspective on the German Ethnic Group in Romania”. This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2081, within PNCDI III”.

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