The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Radford Ordnance Works Transcripts of Oral History Interviews,

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Neville ◽  
Debra A. McClane
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World War ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
The World ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Forging Germans under Germany

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-162
Author(s):  
Caroline Mezger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World War ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Minority Leadership ◽  
German Children ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The Church ◽  
Wartime Experience

Chapter 3 is dedicated to the German occupation of the Western Banat during World War II. Employing archival and press sources from Germany and Serbia, as well as original oral history interviews, it explores the interplay between Reich-German and local Donauschwaben authorities in shaping institutions that would profoundly affect ethnic German children and young people’s wartime experience and conceptualizations of “Germanness”: the National Socialist Volksgruppenführung (minority leadership), the German-language school, and the Church. As the chapter shows, experiences of violence, the Nazi takeover of virtually all local ethnic German organizations, and the disappearance of any official religious alternatives caused an at least public equation of “German” with “National Socialist”—a definition which would be promoted, ignored, and resisted by individual youth.

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