On the run from Hitler through the Balkans

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Marie-Janine Calic

When Hitler came to power, the Balkans were "somewhere down there" for most Germans. Nevertheless, many did not flee to the democratic West and the communist Soviet Union, but to the supposedly backward south-east of Europe. The lecture traces the fates of German-speaking emigrants and refugees in the Balkan countries between 1933 and 1941.

Prof. Dr. Marie-Janine Calic is Professor of the History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. For her book "Balkan Odyssey. 1933-1941", she received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction category in 2026.

The lecture is part of the institute's own event series "Fluchtwege. Forced Migration in Biographies and Images" of the IKDE.

Admission is free. Registration is not necessary.