Делатност југословенских дипломатских представника у Немачкој на онемогућавању ревизионизма у историографији, књижевности, позоришној и филмској уметности око питања избијања Првог светског рата
Activities of Yugoslav Diplomatic Representatives in Germany on Prevention of Revisionism in Press, Literature, Theatre and Film related to the issue of Outbreak of WWI

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after the end of the Great War in defeated countries, preferably in Germany and Austria, “revisionist literature” related to the issue of war guilt started to emerge. It was related to internal needs of German society as well moving to the direction of political right. In addition, world economic crisis and different restrictions imposed to Germany represented fertile soil for development of these tendencies. Versailles peace treaty, being a dictate by winning powers, produced negative impact within German society. Kingdom of Yugoslavia was also faced with crisis, economic as well political due to the unsolved national question. Personal dictatorship of King Alexander introduced in 1929 tried to resolve these issue forcefully by putting them of the agenda. In years of 1929–1931 Yugoslav diplomatic representatives in Berlin and Munich developed extensive activities in following of historiography, literature and arts. They used institutional as well informal ways to intervene against revisionism which was seen as reviewing of was guilt for the outbreak of WWI. Revisionism accused panslavic policies of Russian Empire as well its backing up of Serbia in its Yugoslav irredentism which was directed against integrity of Austria-Hungary. Interesting moment was that certain emigrants also got involved in this polemics like former diplomat Miloš Bogićević who as an “insider” was familiar with many covert details of pre – WWI Serbian politics. Being close to the leader of Black Hand Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević – Apis he tried to rehabilitate him and his organization as well to accuse Pašić policies as adventurous and uncritically Russophile. Plenty of books were censored and their entry to Yugoslavia was forbidden according to the decision of police which was preceded by denunciation of Central Press Bureau.

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