Purifying the nation
Subtitle: population exchange and ethnic cleansing in Nazi-allied Romania
By: Vladimir Solonari.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894084
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania; Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Romania; Population transfers -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; Genocide -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Romania; Racism -- Political aspects -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Romania; Romania -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century; Romania -- Politics and government -- 1914-1944
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The national ideal; title: One ideal or many? : a short history; title: Colonization and resettlement : early Romanian experience; title: Into the Nazis' "fold"; title: Romanian eugenics : racism without a "race"; title: Modern science and nationalism : two Romanian cases; title: The population exchange with Bulgaria; title: pt. 2. Model province; title: The new regime; title: The project : "Model province"; title: Cleansing the terrain, I : mass murder; title: Cleansing the terrain, II : deportation; title: The cost of Utopia; title: What did they know? What did they do?; title: pt. 3. Between the dream and reality; title: Romanianization; title: Deporting Roma; title: Stopping deportations and changing course; title: "Voluntary" population exchange with Bulgaria; title: Getting ready for the world that never came : planning population exchanges; title: Letting them out, and keeping them out.