This book arose in the context of a French-German project entitled "New Approaches to the Second World War in Southeastern Europe" carried out between 2014 and 2016. The project's goal was twofold: to establish a critical review of the existing historiography on the Second World War in Southeastern Europe, and to identify new directions for research. In the course of the project, two workshops were held (one in Paris and one in Berlin), followed by a final conference in Athens. Two publications resulted from the project: the first one is a special issue of the journal Südosteuropa about "The Second World War in Historiography and Public Debate," 1 the second is the present book on "Local Approaches to the Second World War in Southeastern Europe." Its aim is not to propose another political history of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe, but to focus on local histories of the war, the social upheavals caused by the eruption of violence, the transformations and continuities of everyday life, the strategies and choices of ordinary actors in an extraordinary context (including a particular focus on local perspectives on the Holocaust).