User:Gopp22/Germans of Serbia/Bibliography

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Bibliography

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Bibliography[edit]

Zakić, M. (2014). The price of belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, land redistribution and aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941–4. Journal of Contemporary History, 49(2), 320–340. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009413515539

Panagiotidis, J. (2016). Sifting Germans from Yugoslavs: Co-ethnic Selection, Danube Swabian Migrants, and the Contestation of Aussiedler Immigration in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In J. Coy, J. Poley, & A. Schunka (Eds.), Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (pp. 209–226). Berghahn. https://books.google.com/books?id=X1SNCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Giergiel, S., & Katarzyna Taczyńska. (2024). Heritage without heirs: The German legacy in Serbia. The case of the museum of Danube Swabians. Acta Poloniae Historica, 128, 127–150. https://doi.org/10.12775/aph.2023.128.06

Anderson, T. G. (2020). Cameralism and the production of space in the eighteenth-century Romanian Banat: The grid villages of the “Danube Swabians.” Journal of Historical Geography, 69, 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.04.012

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-invasion-of-yugoslavia. Accessed on 1/29/2024.

Antolović, M., & Marković, S. (2015). Executioners and/or victims—German minority in Serbian, Croatian and German historiographies (1945–2010). Journal of Balkan and near Eastern Studies, 19(2), 209–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2015.1096135

Janjetovic, Z. (2002). The disappearance of the Germans from Yugoslavia: Expulsion or emigration? Revue Des Études Sud-Est Européennes, 40, 216.

Lyon, P. W. (2008). After empire: Ethnic Germans and minority nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia [Dissertation]. https://stats.lib.pdx.edu/proxy.php?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/after-empire-ethnic-germans-minority-nationalism/docview/275637349/se-2?accountid=13265

Mezger, C. (2020). Forging Germans : Youth, nation, and the national socialist mobilization of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944. Oxford University Press.

Prusin, A. V. (2017). Serbia under the swastika : A World War II occupation. University of Illinois Press.

Zakic, M. (2019). Ethnic germans and national socialism in yugoslavia in world war ii. Cambridge University Press.

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Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
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Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
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Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
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References[edit]

Outline of proposed changes[edit]

Lead[edit]

Germans of Serbia (existing article): Germans of Serbia

This article is a start-class article and associated with two WikiProjects around Serbia (low-importance) and Germany (mid-importance) to increase the coverage of topics around those countries. My idea is to make edits in order to improve the article with more historical information and credible sources.

Article body[edit]

EDIT #1 - Here is one edit I plan to use to add to this article to create more depth around the history of the German origins in Serbia:

"The history of Germans in the territory of present-day Serbia (in Serbian, the population is referred to as Podunavski Nemci/Švabe, in English as Danube Swabians, and in German as Donauschwaben) dates back to the turn of the seventeenth century and is connected with the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from Pannonia. At that time, the Habsburg state began establishing settlements in the areas abandoned by the Turks."^[1]

References[edit]

A NOTE ON THE ARTICLE'S CURRENT REFERENCES:

I will be evaluating the references in this article as well as adding to them. I have compiled a list of references to use and add to this article in the Bibliography area.

There are virtually NO references in this article, and of the 6 references that are used, only TWO seem to be legitimate / trustworthy sources.

To summarize:

Reference 1 - looks valid (census office of Serbia): http://media.popis2011.stat.rs/2012/Nacionalna%20pripadnost-Ethnicity.pdf

Reference 2 - Christopher Ailsby, Hitler's renegades: foreign nationals in the service of the Third Reich, Brassey's, 2004 also looks valid

Reference 3 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-invasion-of-yugoslavia. Also looks valid

Reference 4 leads the reader here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090812223533/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=12&dd=16&nav_id=46226 which looks skeptical.

References 5 and 6 are both dead links.utline.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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^ Giergiel, Sabina; Taczyńska, Katarzyna (2023). "Heritage Without Heirs: The German Legacy in Serbia. The Case of the Museum of Danube Swabians". Acta Poloniae Historica. 128: 127–150. doi:10.12775/APH.2023.128.06. ISSN 2450-8462.

[1] Giergiel, Sabina; Taczyńska, Katarzyna (2023). "Heritage Without Heirs: The German Legacy in Serbia. The Case of the Museum of Danube Swabians". Acta Poloniae Historica. 128: 127–150. doi:10.12775/APH.2023.128.06. ISSN 2450-8462.

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