BOOKS AND EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF NAZIFICATION OF VOJVODINA GERMANS

Text topic: THE BOOK CULTURE OF THE MINORITIES IN VOJVODINA

Text author: Владимир Баровић

This paper analyses the book as a means of Nazi indoctrination of Germans in Vojvodina in the 1930s. The paper presents books by Nazi authors that were used as the main literature for ideological indoctrination in the Nazi spirit. Less well-known data are given from the Novi Sad bookstore “Kultura”, which specialized in wider scale Nazi literature. The Private German Teachers’ School in Novi Vrbas, which was the centre of Nazi propaganda, is a special focus. This isimportant to mention because future teachers used their position toideologically guide their students in the Nazi spirit through books. It was published and reported in the Serbian press of that time about the Nazi propaganda that was conducted in the area of the Danube County (Dunavska Banovina). The conclusion of this paper suggests that the books had a huge impact on the nazification of Germans as a Yugoslav minority, at a time when other media (except the press) were hardly present in the national community.