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Programme

Wednesday, 4 October (Venue: Topography of Terror)

7 - 8.30 p.m. Greetings - Thomas Lutz (Topography of Terror Foundation, Felix Klein (Federal Foreign Office)

The Other War in the East: World War, Occupation and Violence in Southeastern Europe

Discussion - Xavier Bougarel (Paris), Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal), Michael Wildt (Berlin)

Moderation - Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)

8.30 p.m. Reception

Thursday, 5 October (Venue: Centre Marc Bloch, after early dinner Topography of Terror)

9 a.m. Registration

9.15 a.m. Opening - Catherine Gousseff (Berlin)

9.30 a.m. 1. Panel: Transnational Perspectives on Occupation in Southeastern Europe

“Hitler’s Soldiers” in the Balkans: the Wehrmacht, the SS, the Police - Ben Sheperd (Glasgow)

Italians in the Balkans: Protectorates, Occupation, Camps, Internees - Eric Gobetti (Turin)

11 a.m. Coffee break

11.30 a.m. The Exploitation of Economies and Manpower - Zoran Janjetović (Belgrade),

Occupied Societies - Towards a Transnational Social History of the War - Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)

Chair - Hans-Christian Jasch (Berlin)

1 p.m. Lunch

2 p.m. 2. Panel: Resistance and Collaboration. Shifting Loyalties

Jewish Refugees in the Balkans: A Transnational Historical Puzzle - Bojan Aleksov (London)

Serbs, Croats, Chetniks, Ustasha, Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia - Xavier Bougarel (Paris)

3.30 p.m. Coffee break

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4 p.m. Partisans and Civilians in Greece - Spyros Tsoutsoumpis (Manchester)

Shifting Loyalties in a Time of Extremes: Local Public Employees in Wartime Bessarabia

- Svetlana Suveica (Regensburg)

Chair - Masha Cerovic (Paris)

5.30 p.m. Early dinner

7 p.m. The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe – History and Controversies

Panel Discussion - Marija Vulesica (Berlin), Iason Chandrinos (Regensburg), Nadège Ragaru (Paris), Diana Dumitru (Chisinau)

Chair - Susanne Heim (Berlin)

Friday, 6 October

9 a.m. 3. Panel: War, Economy and Regimes of Supply

„Aryanization“ and Jewish Property in the Context of Supply Regimes in Yugoslavia

- Sanela Schmid (Nürnberg) / Christian Schölzel (Berlin)

Physical Labour and Survival: Supplying Miners in Yugoslavia - Sabine Rutar (Regensburg)

Supply Regimes in Greece - Paolo Fonzi (Berlin)

10.30 a.m. Coffee break

11 a.m. Discussion 3. Panel

Chair - Ottmar Trasca (Berlin)

12 a.m. Lunch

1 p.m. Round Table: Explaining Dynamics of Violence. Greece and Yugoslavia

Stathis Kalyvas (New Haven), Polymeris Voglis (Athens), Tomislav Dulić (Uppsala), Nadège Ragaru (Paris)

Chair - Hannes Grandits (Berlin)

3 p.m. Coffee break

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3.30 p.m. 4. Panel: Remembrance, Amnesia, Obfuscation: Communicating War(s)

Counting and Re-counting Victims - Ivo Pejaković (Zagreb)

German Controversies, Amnesia, Remembrance (And Who Knows About the „Südost-Generäle“?)

- Annette Weinke (Jena)

Narrating War and Violence in Romania and Moldova - Felicia Waldman (Bucharest)

The Image of the War in History Teaching - an Entangled View - Falk Pingel (Bielefeld)

Chair - Thomas Lutz

5.30 p.m. Coffee break

6 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Discussion

Xavier Bougarel (Paris), Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal), Sabine Rutar (Regensburg)

Chair - Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)

7 p.m. End of the conference

8 p.m. Joint dinner (Location: ???)