Social Actors, Practices and Conceptions of Revisionist Politics in Europe, 1938-45

From the 10th to the 12th September the second conference on the issue "Coalition of the Revisionists: The System of Alliance around Nazi-Germany during the Second World War. Aims, Motives and Ideas" will take place at the Department of History at the University of Bern (Switzerland).

The programs of both conferences were developed at the Department of History at the University of Bern (unit for modern and contemporary history) and in the frame of the special research project “War Experiences” at the University of Tübingen. The first conference was held in September 2008 at the guest house of the University of Tübingen in Blaubeuren (Germany) and focused on “Territorial Revisionism and Revisionism Inside”.

This second conference will be about social and political actors as well as conceptions and methods of revisionist politics in Europe during the Second World War. It aims to bring together outstanding experts to discuss the results of international research and forthcoming projects about "Europe and the Coalition of the Revisionists." It should be an opportunity to reflect on an often neglected, nonetheless urgent topic of 20th century history: How did the satellites of Germany fit into the vision of a "New Europe," which for many contemporaries seemed to be a realistic aim to be carried on in a coalition with the "Third Reich?"

Friday, September 11, 2009

I. Social and political actors of revisionist and separatist politics

09:15-09:30 Opening of the conference by Marina Cattaruzza and Dieter Langewiesche

09:30-10:00 Miroslav Tejchman (Prague)
Attempts to form antirevisionist Alliance inside the Axis: the Croatian, the Slovak and the Romanian Collaboration against Hungary 1941-1943

10:00-10:30 Franz Horvath (Ludwigslust)
Ethnic minority groups and revisionism: Hungarian and German minorities in comparison

10:30-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Ignac Romsics (Budapest)
Hungarian Revisionism in Thought and in Action, 1920-1941 (plans, expectations and reality)

12:00-12:30 Holly Case (Ithaca, NY)
Hungarian Revisionism in Regional Perspective

12:30-13:00 Discussion

13:15 Lunch

15:00-15:30 Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Berlin)
Tiso’s party and the influence of German National Socialism

15:30-16:00 Timothy Snyder (New Haven)
The Politics and Economics of Ukrainian Collaboration

16:00-16:30 Discussion

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:30 Stefan Troebst (Leipzig)
The Macedonian Emigré Organizations and Bulgarian Revisionism, 1938-1944

17:30-18:00 Traian Sandu (Paris) The Iron Guard and Antonescu’s regime in Romania

18:00-18:30 Discussion

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, September 12, 2009
II. Practices of revision

09:00-09:30 Constantin Iordachi (Budapest)
Beyond Intentionalism or Functionalism: Agency and Context in the Holocaust. The Case of Romania.

09:30-10:00 Alexander Korb (Berlin)
Croatian responsibilities in the Holocaust

10:00-10:30 Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Ottmar Trască (Cluj) Hungary’s Policy in the territories ceded by Romania after the Second Vienna Award

11:30-11:45 Discussion

11:45-13:00 Final Discussion

13:00 Lunch