The Third Reich and Yugoslavia : An Economy of Fear, 1933-1941

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Sources and literature overview
	Notes on terminology and disclaimers
1 Yugoslavia, South-Eastern Europe and economic decision-making in Hitler’s Germany
	Mitteleuropa, Grosswirtschaftsraum and German economic theories
	Polycracy in the Third Reich
2 The Austrian partnership
	The political context before 1933
	Germany, Yugoslavia and the Austrian question
	The road to neutrality
	From player to played
3 Economic relations under the auspices of Schacht’s New Plan
	The transition years 1930–3 in the Danube region
	End of German reparations
	German-Yugoslav economic relations in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power
	The May 1934 Trade Agreement
	Little Entente’s economic cooperation
	The war economy, Hjalmar Schacht and the New Plan
	German-Yugoslav economic relations after May 1934
	Towards import controls
	Political prey or economic outlet?
4 In the web of the Axis
	Germany and Italy in the Danube region
	Germany comes to the fore
	A mouse between the cats
5 Yugoslavia and the Four-Year Plan
	The beginnings of the Four-Year Plan
	Dresden and Berlin meetings
	Between Berlin and Dubrovnik
	Economic relations after the Anschluss
	Armament deliveries
	Elusive freedom
6 The Third Reich and the industrialization of Yugoslavia
	The consequences of the Abyssinian Crisis
	German investments in Yugoslavia
	Yugoslavia’s state purchases in Germany
	Germany and modernization of Yugoslavia’s agriculture
	Mutual importance
	The deployment of Germany’s soft power
	Yugoslav reaction to German economic theories
	Conflicting directions
7 Ideological traps in the Nazi decade
	Antisemitism in pre-1941 Yugoslavia
	Native fascism in the 1930s
	The Third Reich and Yugoslavia on ideological crossroads
	Yugoslav Volksdeutsche between homeland and fatherland
	Limited fear
8 Bringing Yugoslavia in line
	German armament deliveries after September 1939
	Before the fall of France
	Pre-1914 credits
	Economy and politics become one
	Economy of fear
9 Yugoslavia commits suicide
	Uncomfortable neutrality
	War comes to the Balkans
	The end
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography