Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia

Yeomans, Rory

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“…The fight against the abortions in Slovakia therefore did not sound as relentless as, for example, in the Independent State of Croatia, where draconian punishments for abortions were proposed. 81 The approach towards fundamental aspects of family policy such as birth control by the HSĽS regime, which in this case worked closely with the Catholic clergy, shed new light on the intertwining of Slovak nationalism and Catholicism in the first years of the Slovak state. Ideological innovations such as racial hygiene did not prevail, either among the clergy or in population policy, despite its explicit pronatalism.…”

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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Szabó

2023

Journal of Family History

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This study deals with the intersections but also the unrelenting tension between the Catholic Church und politics and efforts to regulate society through eugenics in order to heal it in the context of the establishment of the Slovak state between 1938 and 1941, which was based on a specific conception of traditional family. In the first step, the discourse of the national revolution in the period of Slovak autonomy at the turn of 1938 and 1939 is analyzed, with emphasis on the requirement of “national health” through measures of so-called positive eugenics. Subsequently, the article examines the efforts to institutionalize this discourse in the context of the establishment of a museum of hygiene according to the German model. Finally, it outlines the impact of this context on the preparation and implementation of the anti-interruption law on “fetal protection” of 1941.

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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Szabó

2023

Journal of Family History

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Eugenics and racial anthropology in the Ukrainian radical nationalist tradition

Rudling

2019

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ArgumentEugenics and race played significant roles in Ukrainian interwar nationalism, yet remain largely unstudied. The Ukrainian nationalists’ understanding of the racial makeup of their imagined community was contradictory as they struggled to reconcile their desire for racial “purity” with the realities of significant variations between the populations inhabiting the enormous territories which they sought to include in their intended state project. The “turn to the right” over the 1930s placed an increased onus on race, and eugenics came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in Ukrainian radical nationalism from around 1936. In 1941, the leading Ukrainian far-right organization, the OUN had developed a project for eugenic engineering, for their aborted state, declared in L’viv on June 30, 1941. Racial conceptualizations of the Ukrainian community figured prominently well into the Cold War era, gaining a new actuality and meaning in an émigré community dispersed across several countries.

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Contested cooperation: the ethnic-German welfare cooperatives in the Vojvodina (1930s)

Robionek

2018

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Although the ethnic-German cooperative union in the Vojvodina, operating as a branch of the political minority movement, was designed to embrace as many economic and social organizations with ethnic-German members as possible, it did not remain united. The discord began with the establishment of welfare cooperatives as successors to former voluntary burial associations. The central organization of the ethnic-German welfare cooperatives, the Zewoge, was founded under the auspices of the ethnic-German cooperative union in 1931 and became the focal point for the former burial associations as well as newly established local welfare cooperatives. The driving force behind this development was Johann Wüscht who came into conflict with the physicians' section of the ethnic-German cultural organization. This began a process of separation of the Zewoge from the ethnic-German cooperative union. The Serbian union of welfare cooperatives assisted the Zewoge in gaining and securing its independence from the ethnic-German cooperative union in Novi Sad. This was surprising since Wüscht, the top manager of the Zewoge, announced that the ethnic Germans were involved in a demographic struggle with the Serbs in the Vojvodina. For strengthening the position of the minority, he advocated measures spanning from social hygiene to eugenics. Introduction: cleavage of a minority This article deals with the ethnic-German welfare cooperatives (Wohlfahrtsgenossenschaften, short form: Wogen) in the Vojvodina in the 1930s. Although a contribution about welfare cooperatives might seem out of place in a special issue about voluntary associations, in fact they shared some significant features. First, both the welfare cooperatives and some voluntary associations aimed at the social care of their recipients, and were run along nonprofit lines. Therefore, considering the historical roots, the statutory goals and the concrete practices of the welfare cooperatives under examination, in this article I will use the notion KEYWORDS

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Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia

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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Eugenics and racial anthropology in the Ukrainian radical nationalist tradition

Contested cooperation: the ethnic-German welfare cooperatives in the Vojvodina (1930s)

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