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- Title
第二次世界大戦における武装親衛隊と民族ドイツ人.
- Authors
Shiba Kensuke
- Abstract
This article deals with the question of the so-called “ethnic Germans” (Volksdeutsche) in Romania and attempts to examine their relationship with the Romanian state and then with Germany (at the time of the Third Reich) in historical and political context. World War I changed drastically the political map of Southern and Eastern Europe. In Romania, German communities existed as a result of the immigration of Germans throughout the Medieval and Modern Periods. These communities constituted approximately 4 percent (over eight hundred thousand people) of the whole Romanian population, and these consisted of various groups such as Transilvanian Sachsen (Saxon), Banat Schwaben (Swabia), Bessarabians, Dobrudscha Germans. After World War I,as a result of the “Romanization” policies pursued by the Romanian government against the German minorities, these “ethnic Germans” increasingly began to be influenced by the National Socialist Movement in Germany. Finally, after the advent of the Third Reich, Romania became an ally state of Nazi Germany, and these “ethnic Germans” played an important role as a source of manpower for the first mass recruitment for the Nazi Waffen-SS (the Armed SS) outside Germany. They eventually provided the biggest source for compulsory conscription for the Waffen-SS as well. This article analyses the reasons why the “ethnic Germans” in Romania joined the Waffen-SS. It also examines the origin and development of the “Prinz Eugen” (the SS 7. Division), the first “ethnic German” division, which committed massacres against civilians in the anti-Partisan war. Making use of the Nuremberg Trials materials as well, this article attempts to shed light on various aspects of the “ethno-management” policy pursued by National Socialism towards the “ethnic Germans” outside Germany.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; GERMANS; ROMANIAN history, 1914-1944; ROMANIAN politics &; government, 1914-1944; WAFFEN-SS; NATIONAL socialism; ETHNICITY; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 -- Foreign relations; TWENTIETH century; GOVERNMENT policy; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Historical Studies / Rekishigaku Kenkyu, 2011, Issue 883, p13
- ISSN
0386-9237
- Publication type
Article