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

TERRITORIAL REVISIONISM AND THE ALLIES OF
GERMANY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

A USTRIAN AND H ABSBURG S TUDIES

General Editor: Gary B. Cohen

Published in Association with the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota

Volume 1

Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Edited by David F. Good, Margarete Grandner, and Mary Jo Maynes

Volume 2

From World War to Waldheim: Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Edited by David F. Good and Ruth Wodak

Volume 3

Rethinking Vienna 1900

Edited by Steven Beller

Volume 4

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

Edited by Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph

Volume 5

Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

Edited by Nancy M. Wingfield

Volume 6

Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

Edited by Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit

Volume 7

The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Edited by Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. Cohen

Volume 8

Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 18901914

Daniel Mark Vyletta

Volume 9

The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Sumbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Edited by Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky

Volume 10

Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe

Edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo

Volume 11

Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Differences in Central Europe, 15001800

Edited by Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen, and Franz A. J. Szabo

Volume 12

Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Sicle to the Present

Hillary Hope Herzog

Volume 13

Sexual Knowledge: Feeling, Fact and Social Reform in Vienna, 19001934

Britta McEwen

Volume 14

Journeys Into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber

Volume 15

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

Edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff, and Dieter Langewiesche

Volume 16

The Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-Siecle Culture

Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, and Simon Shaw-Miller

Volume 17

Understanding Multiculturalism: The Habsburg Central European Experience

Edited by Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen

Goals, Expectations, Practices

Edited by

Marina Cattaruzza

Stefan Dyroff

and

Dieter Langewiesche

First edition published in 2013 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2013, 2015 Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff and Dieter Langewiesche
First paperback edition published in 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Territorial revisionism and the allies of Germany in the Second World War : goals, expectations, practices / edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff and Dieter Langewiesche.

p. cm. (Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v.15)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-85745-738-7 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-78238-920-0 (paperback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-85745-739-4 (ebook)

1. World War, 1939-1945Occupied territories. 2. World War, 19391945 Territorial questionsEurope, Eastern. 3. World War, 19391945Territorial questionsEurope, Central. 4. World War, 19391945CollaborationistsEurope, Eastern. 5. World War, 19391945CollaborationistsEurope, Central. 6. Europe, EasternBoundariesHistory20th century. 7. Europe, CentralBoundariesHistory20th century. 8. NationalismEurope, EasternHistory20th century. 9. NationalismEurope, CentralHistory20th century. I. Cattaruzza, Marina, 1950 II. Dyroff, Stefan, 1976 III. Langewiesche, Dieter.

D802.E92T47 2012

940.532dc23

2012017044

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Printed on acid-free paper

ISBN: 978-0-85745-738-7 hardback
ISBN: 978-1-78238-920-0 paperback
ISBN: 978-0-85745-739-4 ebook

Marina Cattaruzza and Dieter Langewiesche

Istvn Dek

Franz Sz. Horvth

Norbert Spannenberger

Holly Case

Ignc Romsics

Elbieta Znamierowska-Rakk

Frank Grelka

Frank Golczewski

Stefan Troebst

Mariana Hausleitner

The editors heartily thank the following institutions for their financial support for the project Territorial Revisionism and for the publication of this volume: the DFGSonderforschungsbereich Kriegserfahrung [German Research FoundationSpecial Research Cluster Experiences of War] at Tbingen University; the Swiss National Science Fund; the Max and Elsa Beer-Brawand Foundation in Berne; the Hochschulstiftung der Burgergemeinde Bern; the Italian Culture Institute in Zrich; and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne. They also thank Nicholas Zcker for his help in the editing of the translated texts. Finally, they express their gratitude to Gary Cohen for his readiness to include their book in the Austrian and Habsburg Studies series.