Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War : Goals, Expectations, Practices

Contents

Introduction: Contextualizing Territorial Revisionism: Goals, Expectations, Practices
Marina Cattaruzza and Dieter Langewiesche

    The European Scenario in the Interwar Period
    Revisionism in Practice
    The Minorities Issue
    The manifold problems of the heirs of the empires in East Central Europe
    An era of Revisionism?

Chapter 1. The Worst of Friends: Germany’s Allies in East Central Europe – Struggles for Regional Dominance and Ethnic Cleansing, 1938-1945
Istvan Deak

THE ROLE OF MINORITIES

Chapter 2. Minorities into majorities. Sudeten German and Transylvanian Hungarian political elites as actors of revisionism before and during the Second World War
Franz Horvath

    Introduction
    Some remarks on terminology (Minority groups, Revisionism, and Loyalty)
    Sudeten Germans and Transylvanian Hungarians as Revisionist Minorities
    Dominating the others. Sudeten Germans and Transylvanian Hungarians as Members of the Ruling Nation (1938/40-1944/45)
    Conclusion

Chapter 3. Germany turns eastwards: The “Volksdeutsche” in Central and Eastern Europe
Norbert Spannenberger

    Minority Politics and German “Volksgruppen” in the States of the South Eastern European Region
    A Sketch of National Socialist Volksgruppen Politics in Practice

REVISIONISM AS A DRIVING FORCE

Chapter 4. Revisionism in Regional Perspective
Holly Case

    Revisionism as Ideology
    Revisionist and Anti-Revisionist Solidarity: The Case of the Little Entente
    Lessons and Models in the Geopolitics of Revisionism: Bulgaria and Romania
    Revisionism and Domestic Policy
    Conclusion

Chapter 5. Hungarian Revisionism in Thought and Action, 1920-1941 (Plans, Expectations, Reality)
Ignác Romsics

    Hungarian Revisionist Conceptions after Trianon
    Hungarian Revisionist Politics by Negotiation and War

Chapter 6. Bulgarian Territorial Revisionism as the Driving Force for its Rapprochment with the Third Reich
Elżbieta Znamierowska-Rakk

    Postwar Revisionism and Postwar Alliances
    Germany as the Main Revisionist Power
    The Recovery of Southern Dobrudja
    Bulgaria’s Accession to the Pact of Three
    Conclusion

PRACTICES OF REVISIONISM

Chapter 7. Politics and Military Action of Ethnic Ukrainian Collaboration for the “New European Order”
Frank Grelka

    Political Collaboration
    Administrative Collaboration
    Military Collaboration
    Conclusion

Chapter 8. Civil War in Occupied Territories: The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict in the Interwar Years and in the Second World War
Frank Golczewski

    National Disappointment
    Hopes set on the Great Powers
    The Changes of 1941
    The Change of the Tide
    After the War

Chapter 9. The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and Bulgarian Revisionism, 1923-1944
Stefan Troebst

    Vision turned into Politics: The Bulgarian Syndrome of San Stefano
    Peaceful Revisionism“: Official Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period
    Militant Revisionism: Informal Bulgarian Interwar Balkan Policy
    Revision Achieved—And Lost Again: Bulgaria and IMRO in the Second World War
    Legacies: IMRO in Today’s Bulgarian and Macedonian Politics

Chapter 10. Romania in the Second World War: Revisionist Out of Necessity
Mariana Hausleitner

    Minorities Policies, Romanization and anti-Semitism in Romania 1918-1941
    The Redrawing of the Romanian Borders 1938-1940
    The so called \"Purification\" in the Bukovina, Bessarabia and Transnistria 1941-1944
    Who planned and organized the “national purification” of Romania
    Conclusion

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