Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Kühberger Christoph
    Europe as a ”bundle of rays“. Conceptions and legitimations of a European cooperation at the foundation of the “Europäischer Jugendverband” (European Youth Association) in 1942
    in Journal of European Integration History , vol. 15, n. 2 ,  2009 ,  11-28
    Baldur von Schirach, Reich governor and Reichsleiter of the Hitler Youth, founded the «European Youth Association» with other European youth leaders in 1942. Due to the lack of official documents on the official ideology of this association, this article tries to reveal its political visions and fundaments by national as well as international newspaper coverage, records on the inauguration which are archived in Vienna (Archiv der Republik), official speeches and publications of the organisers. Through these documents it can be shown that – even on an official level – there were different conceptions of Europe in Nazi-Germany. The European Youth Association can be regarded as a product of an ideological circle around Baldur von Schirach, which granted a certain amount of sovereignty to the member states during World War II.
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