Caroline Mezger
Research Associate
Center for Holocaust Studies
The Institute for Contemporary History
Germany
Biography
Research Associate, Center for Holocaust Studies, The institute for Contemporary History, Munich.
Research Interest
History of the Second World War and the Holocaust in South Eastern Europe; Nationality policy in multiethnic border areas; German-speaking minorities in Central and South Eastern Europe; History of childhood and youth; Oral History.
Publications
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"From Hitler's Disciple to Wartime Refugee: Donauschwaben World War II Childhoods and the Crossroads of Historical Agency," edited by Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research
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"For you are the future of your people": Youth, Nation, and the Nazi Mobilization of Southeastern Europe's Donauschwaben, 1930s-1944, "National Socialism and Regional Consciousness in Eastern Europe. Ideology, power expansion, persistence, ed. Burkhard Olschowsky and Ingo Loose (Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016), pp. 105-126.
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"Entangled Utopias: The Nazi Mobilization of Ethnic German Youths in the Batschka, 1930s-1944," Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol. 1 (winter 2016), pp. 87-117.
