Power games: the German Nationality Policy (Volkstumspolitik) in Czernowitz before and during the Barbarrosa campaign

Czernowitz, capital of Romania's province of Bukovina, was a diplomatic, political, and ethnic battleground during World War II. The German Sonderkommande esconced itself in the city, arresting most of the Jewish population and killing hundreds. The Romanians herded 50,000 Czernowitz Jews into a ghetto, but they were not sent to death camps. After the war the Jews never re-established themselves in the city, once a vibrant centre of Jewish culture