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

在这一项目开始时，人们注意到第二次世界大战期间德国在巴尔干的占领政策跨国家运作，并削减了不同的政策领域。史学主要从东南欧民族国家的角度来考察这一地区。与此相反，本项目以传记的方式从两个方面分析德国的政策：作为超国家的一套政策，以及占领、经济剥削和灭绝之间的相互作用。东南欧纳粹政策的具体发展和动态与第二次世界大战的其他战区截然不同，可以通过关注其最重要的代表之一赫尔曼·诺伊巴赫来分析。与此同时，已经开始撰写结果。然而，由于对10个国家的24个档案馆进行了广泛的研究，而且东南欧档案馆的条件极其困难，进展受到了不可避免的拖延。然而，对这些档案的研究对于这项研究的方向是不可或缺的，甚至是决定性的，其未来的影响将以新的和不同的视角揭示德国在东南欧的政治。由于该项目不是更广泛的研究集群的一部分，而是由单个人承担的，我们在此申请延长一年的资金，以便能够完成。

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.