Executioners and/or victims-German minority in Serbian, Croatian and German historiographies (1945-2010)

This paper discusses the interpretative framework that Serbian and Croatian historiographies on one side, and German historiographies on the other side, used when studying the past of the German minority in Yugoslavia. Pointing out a strong influence of ideologies on historical writing, the authors...

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Published in:Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern studies 2017-03, Vol.19 (2), p.209-224
Main Authors: Antolovic, Michael, Markovic, Sasa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Historiography
Post Cold War period
Victims
World War II
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Summary:This paper discusses the interpretative framework that Serbian and Croatian historiographies on one side, and German historiographies on the other side, used when studying the past of the German minority in Yugoslavia. Pointing out a strong influence of ideologies on historical writing, the authors distinguish two periods with regard to this issue: 'Cold War historiography', from the end of the Second World War until the beginning of the 1990s; and 'post-Cold War', that is, contemporary historiography. Ideological antagonisms and personal experiences of contemporaries, which marked the Cold War historiography, have been gradually overcome during the past two decades, due to the revision of previous assessments in all three historiographies.
ISSN:1944-8953
1944-8961
DOI:10.1080/19448953.2015.1096135