Hermann Neubacher and the German Politics in South East Europe in World War II

在这个项目的开始，人们观察到德国在第二次世界大战中对巴尔干地区的占领政策是跨国运作的，并切断了不同的政策领域。史学主要是从各个东南欧民族国家的角度来考察这一地区的。与此相反，本项目以传记的方式从两个方面分析了德国的政策：作为一套超国家的政策，以及占领、经济剥削和灭绝之间的相互作用。纳粹政策在东南欧的具体发展和动态，与第二次世界大战的其他战场明显不同，可以通过关注其最重要的倡导者之一赫尔曼·纽巴赫来分析。与此同时，已经开始记录结果。但是，由于在10个国家的24个档案中进行了广泛的研究，而且东南欧档案的条件极其困难，进展不可避免地受到拖延。然而，这些档案的研究对本研究的方向是不可或缺的，而且确实是决定性的，其未来的影响将以一种新的和不同的方式揭示东南欧的德国政治。由于该项目不属于更广泛的研究集群的一部分，而是由一个人承担，因此我们在此申请额外一年的资助，以便完成。

At the beginning of this project stood the observation that the German occupation policies in the Balkans in World War II operated transnationally and cut different policy areas. The historiography has examined this region mainly from the perspective of the respective southeast European nation states. In contrast to this, the present project analyses German policies by the way of a biographi-cal approach in two ways: as a supranational set of policies as well as an interplay between occu-pation, economic exploitation and annihilation. The specific developments and dynamics of Nazi policies in Southeastern Europe, which differed markedly from other theatres of World War II, can be analysed by focusing on one of their foremost exponents, Hermann Neubacher. Meanwhile, a start has been made on writing up the results. However, owing to the extensive re-search in 24 archives in ten countries, and to the extremely difficult conditions in the Southeastern European archives, progress has suffered unavoidable delays. Research in those archives, however, was indispensable and indeed decisive for the direction of this study, whose prospective im-pact will reveal the German politics in South East Europe in a new and different light. As the project does not form part of a broader research cluster, but is undertaken by a single individual, we hereby apply for a further year of funding in order to allow for completion.