Suchergebnisse

Although the ethnic-German cooperative union in the Vojvodina, operating as a branch of the political minority movement, was designed to embrace as many economic and social organizations with ethnic-German members as possible, it did not remain united. The discord began with the establishment of welfare cooperatives as successors to former voluntary burial associations. The central organization of the ethnic-German welfare cooperatives, the Zewoge, was founded under the auspices of the ethnic-German cooperative union in 1931 and became the focal point for the former burial associations as well as newly established local welfare cooperatives. The driving force behind this development was Johann Wüscht who came into conflict with the physicians' section of the ethnic-German cultural organization. This began a process of separation of the Zewoge from the ethnic-German cooperative union. The Serbian union of welfare cooperatives assisted the Zewoge in gaining and securing its independence from the ethnic-German cooperative union in Novi Sad. This was surprising since Wüscht, the top manager of the Zewoge, announced that the ethnic Germans were involved in a demographic struggle with the Serbs in the Vojvodina. For strengthening the position of the minority, he advocated measures spanning from social hygiene to eugenics.

Bernd Robionek gives an overview of the development of ethnic-German cooperatives in Eastern Europe between the World Wars and analyses their political and economic role within German national revisionist policies.

This working paper provides a basis for the discussion of the political influences on lethal activities of Yugoslav state security services against militant émigrés in Western countries. In a first step, it outlines the development of the state security organization. This leads to the problems of political control. The paper shows that there was dissent among Yugoslav top politicians regarding the killing of apparently dangerous opponents abroad. It focuses on two ministers of the interior (Franjo Herljević from 1974-82 and Stane Dolanc from 1982-84), presenting controversial standpoints about the application of deadly means in the West. Also considered is Yugoslavia's international position between the superpowers which gave political leaders the background for the belief that their country was affected by a "special war".