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Waffen-SS veterans and their sites of memory today
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Institute of Contemporary History. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6804-7732
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History.
2016 (English)In: The Waffen-SS: A European History / [ed] Jochen Böhler & Robert Gerwarth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 1Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Book abstract: This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought ― either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures ― for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East). Building on the findings of regional studies by other scholars ― many of them included in this volume ― The Waffen-SS aims to arrive at a fuller picture of those non-German citizens (from Eastern as well as Western Europe) who served under the SS flag. Where did the non-Germans in the SS come from (socially, geographically, and culturally)? What motivated them? What do we know about the practicalities of international collaboration in war and genocide, in terms of everyday life, language, and ideological training? Did a common transnational identity emerge as a result of shared ideological convictions or experiences of extreme violence? In order to address these questions (and others), The Waffen-SS adopts an approach that does justice to the complexity of the subject, adding a more nuanced, empirically sound understanding of collaboration in Europe during World War II, while also seeking to push the methodological boundaries of the historiographical genre of perpetrator studies by adopting a transnational approach.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 1.
Keywords [en]
Waffen-SS, veteran, WWII, national socialism, memory, foreign volunteers
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History
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Historical Studies; Baltic and East European studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31252ISBN: 9780198790556 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-31252DiVA, id: diva2:1050866
Available from: 2016-11-30 Created: 2016-11-30 Last updated: 2017-05-09Bibliographically approved

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