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Children of the Danube
Numerous histories and studies of the Great Swabian Migration of the 18th century have been written and published, and the tragic fate of many of their descendants in our own time has also been chronicled. Most of these are available in languages other than English. Much of that research forms the backdrop of "Children of the Danube," which is the author's attempt at telling the stories behind the history. Personal stories that weave the tapestry of the lives of his extended family with those of the other families and individuals who joined them after venturing down the majestic, sometimes turbulent, Danube River, taking them on a quest that is common to all people: the search for the Promis...
Casualty of War
Not all casualties of war die on the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic origins and the conscription of their fighting-age men into the Waffen SS, the Volksdeutsche, as these settlers were called, were rounded up at the war's end and herded into concentration camps. Those who were not murdered or did not die from the harsh conditions were expelled from the village homes their families had known and loved for three hundred years. Nine years old when she entered the concentration camp in 1945, author Luisa Lang Owen survived the persecution of the Danube Swabians, ev...
Beyond Nationalism
In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin, education, training, code of honor, lifestyle, and political role of the Habsburg officers. Simultaneously conservative and liberal, the officer corps, originally composed mainly of noblemen, willingly coopted thousands of commoners--among them an extraordinary number of Jews. Even during World War I, the army and its officers endured, surviving the dissolution of the state in October 1918, if only by a few days. The end of the multinational Habsburg army also marked the end of confessional and ethnic tolerance in Central and East Central Europe.
Forgotten Voices
The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war's end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten...
The Danube Swabians
Sedulo curavi humanas actiones non rid ere , non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere. SPINOZA This monograph is an attempt to present some information on the fabric and patterns of an ethnic minority group whose destiny was totally deflected by Hitler and his war. The people in question are the Danube Swabians, German populations who were so called because of their habitat in the middle Danube region of east-central and south-eastern Europe. Research for this study was done in 1964 in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany, in which countries the author contacted persons of competence and made use of archives and other sources. He also attended the annual con v...
Das Ungarnbild der deutschen Historiographie
Die Frage nach dem literarischen, politischen, publizistischen oder landeskundlichen Ungarnbild in Deutschland wird immer wieder gestellt, nicht jedoch nach einem Ungarnbild der deutschen Historiographie! Anhand ausgew�hlter Themen, Historikerpers�nlichkeiten oder am Beispiel der Werkstattarbeit zeigt der Sammelband, wie das Ungarnbild der deutschen Historiographie in den einzelnen Epochen entsteht. Ist dieses Bild mit Emotionen, Stereotypen, Mythen oder Vorurteilen befrachtet oder wertfrei? Ein Einblick in die Rechtsgeschichte und weitere Exkurse beantworten diese Frage. Die Bedeutung der Kenntnisse ueber Entstehung, Entwicklung oder Ver�nderung des Ungarnbildes ist nicht nur wissenschaftsimmanent begruendet. Institute, popul�rwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen und Geschichtslehrbuecher vermitteln einem breiten Publikum die wissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnisse, die wiederum das Bild einer Gesellschaft ueber ein anderes Volk und Land nachhaltig beeinflussen und sich dadurch zugleich auf die Beziehungen in vielen Bereichen des Lebens auswirken k�nnen. .
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Generative Sozialisation und/oder ethnische Mobilisierung
In der Zwischenkriegszeit kollidierten ungarische Homogenisierungstendenzen und Gruppenbildungsprozesse der Deutschen in Ungarn. Der Jugend kam dabei eine besondere Rolle zu. Für die Wahrnehmung dieser neuen Position war eine zweifache Emanzipation nötig. Eine Emanzipation als Jugend, also im sozialen Sinne, und eine Emanzipation als Minderheitenjugend, also im ethnischen Sinne. Wegen fehlender Voraussetzungen musste diese Emanzipation von außen angekurbelt werden und war mit einer Mobilisierung, Politisierung und Uniformierung verbunden. Letztendlich kulminierten diese Vorgänge in der 1941 gegründeten Deutschen Jugend. Der Missbrauch im Krieg und die forcierte Angleichung an Traditionen im 'Reich' machten die zwischenzeitlich erreichten Fortschritte der Ethnisierung jedoch schnell wieder rückgängig.
Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs
These essays, by the leading historian of the Austro-Hungarian empire, explore the political and religious history of the Habsburg lands. They also describe key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe over more than two centuries of cultural and social transition.
