IDEJA AUTONOMIJE BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE 1941-1945. U OKVIRIMA IZVORA I HISTORIJSKE REKONSTRUKCIJE
THE CONCEPT OF BOSNIAN AUTONOMY 1941-1945 IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ARCHIVAL SOURCES AND HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author examines the issue of autonomy of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War in Yugoslavia (1941-1945). He draws attention to some contentious moments and methodological limitations in consideration of the problem within the existing historical works, as well within the references offered by the available historical sources. According to his opinion, the major difficulties in efforts of reliable historical reconstruction of the problem are made by the fact that the basic knowledge on the concept of Bosnian autonomy during the Second World War is mainly not provided by the mere exponents of the autonomist aspirations inherent to the Bosniac/Muslim citizenry, but by those who were opposing the idea among the Ustasha and German officials. The author points out the importance of further scientific research on the issue of Bosnian autonomy and its protagonists’ activities in the Second World War. The research should be based on discovering and using new sources on the issue, but also on bigger sensitivity and responsibility towards the existing ones, during their textual analysis and mutual consideration and understanding, taking into account the background, motives and wider context of military and political relations in Independent State of Croatia and in the Balkans.

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