This article analyses the use of Europeanizing discourses in the travel writing of Croat visitors to the Third Reich. Situating these visits in the context of transnational exchanges in Hitler’s new Europe and the war against the Soviet Union, it considers a number of specific case studies of travel between Croatia and Nazi Germany. It argues that the European discourse of writers, journalists, and youth activists in the Ustasha-led Independent State of Croatia served a number of specific purposes. First, they created a space of normality in an extremely violent state, providing an illusion of stability. By bringing the sights, sounds, and pleasures of travel to the near abroad back to Croatia in the form of books, magazine articles, and mobile film reels, they also gave citizens a glimpse of the good life, consumption, and materiality. As such, these travelogues and accounts of journeys overseas also aimed to persuade intellectuals and members of the cultural elite who did not support the Ustasha regime of the various material and professional “club goods” that might accrue to them by becoming active supporters of the regime. Furthermore, they served to create an impression of mobility in a surveillance state in which even internal travel was extremely restricted. Finally, in depicting Nazi-led war in the East and the struggle against the “East within”—in the form of the campaign of genocide against Serbs, Jews, Roma and so-called “asocials”—to building European brotherhood, modernization, and becoming an essential member of the new Europe, they became a source of regime legitimation, thereby telling us important things about the subjectivity of both the state and ideological tourists in a time of terror, war, and occupation.

本文分析了欧化话语在第三帝国克罗地亚游客旅行写作中的运用。将这些访问置于希特勒新欧洲的跨国交流和反苏战争的背景下，它考虑了克罗地亚和纳粹德国之间旅行的一些具体案例研究。它认为，在乌斯塔沙领导的克罗地亚独立国中，作家、记者和青年活动家的欧洲话语服务于许多特定目的。首先，他们在极度暴力的状态下创造了一个正常的空间，提供了一种稳定的错觉。通过以书籍、杂志文章和手机电影卷轴的形式，将远近国外旅行的景象、声音和乐趣带回克罗地亚，也让公民瞥见了美好的生活、消费和物质。像这样，这些游记和海外旅行记述还旨在说服不支持乌斯塔沙政权的知识分子和文化精英成员接受各种物质和专业“俱乐部商品”，这些物质和专业“俱乐部物品”可能通过成为该政权的积极支持者而获得。此外，它们还有助于营造一种在监视状态下移动的印象，在这种状态下，即使是内部旅行也受到极大限制。最后，在描绘纳粹领导的东方战争和与“东方内部”的斗争——以对塞尔维亚人、犹太人、罗姆人和所谓的“非社会人士”的种族灭绝运动的形式——以建立欧洲兄弟情谊、现代化、并成为新欧洲的重要成员，他们成为政权合法化的源泉，