Franziska Zaugg has been a lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History/University of Fribourg since February 2022 and is an Associate Researcher at the University of Bern. Her work focuses on various areas. On the one hand, she has spent years researching the Waffen-SS, its recruitment methods, the aftermath of the organization and its members to our days—primarily in southern and southeastern Europe. Old and new forms of fascisms and (hyper-)nationalisms are an important part of her studies, especially when it comes to tracing “longue durée” developments, for example in Southeast Europe, but also in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. In doing so, she also examined the opposites of fascism and anti-fascism, as well as collaboration and resistance, which enabled her to capture various shades of gray that are often overlooked in research. From 2015 to 2018 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin/Centre for War Studies within the Project “The Waffen-SS: A European History” and from 2016 to 2018 an Early Career Researcher at the University of Oxford within the “Transnational Resistance Project”. She is co-founder of the working group “History-Society-Violence” (Geschichte-Gesellschaft-Gewalt), since 2013.

  • Xhafer Deva: Nationalism, Collaboration and Mass Murder in Pursuit of a ‘Greater Albanian’ State, in: Journal of Modern European History, 2(2024), pp. 151-168, https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944241241446

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