Loialitate dublă. Evoluții politice în cadrul minorității germane din România, 1933–1940
Double Loyalty. Political Developments within the German Minority in Romania, 1933–1940

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of the German minority between 1933 and 1940 was largely determined by the emergence and expansion of the National Socialist ideology. The influence exerted by the National Socialist current left its mark particularly on the way the German minority expressed in political terms, the result being the gradual and continuous radicalization of the political discourse, especially in the years 1938-1939. Regarding the attitude adopted by the German minority towards the Romanian state during this period, it was obviously influenced both by domestic developments and, especially, by the international context. In the years 1933-1937, the leadership of the German minority supported on every important occasion the need to promote a loyal attitude towards the Romanian state. Instead, between 1939-1940 as a result of the international context in which the National Socialist Germany played an important role, the leadership of the German minority adopted an increasingly intransigent attitude, loyalty to the Third Reich coming to the fore.

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