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Racial and Balkanist Undercurrents among German and Italian Occupation Forces during World War Two

8 August 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr Bojan Aleksov has been awarded a Return Fellowship with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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will be visiting Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) from December 2024 to February 2025 to work on his project ‘Racial and Balkanist Undercurrents among German and Italian Occupation Forces during World War Two’. The project looks into the ferocity of Nazi occupation, and is particularly interested in racial and cultural perceptions of the Balkans and Slavs among German soldiers and officers, and their empirical reverberations.

Dr Aleksov is Associate Professor of South-East European History at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË SSEES and author of Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945.

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