1. Lost Brothers and Spoiled Children.
- Author
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Sveholm, Nicholas
- Subjects
EUROPE description & travel ,GERMANS in foreign countries ,TRANSYLVANIAN Saxons ,SOLIDARITY ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,VACATIONS ,NATIONALISM ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY ,HISTORY of nationalism - Abstract
From 1917 to 1924, groups of German children were sent on Erholungsreisen (vacation journeys) to German-speaking villages in Transylvania. These trips were organized jointly by nationalist associations in Germany and their partners in Transylvania, who hoped to reinforce bonds between Germans abroad and the Mutterland. The success of the 1917 trip contrasts with the failure of later campaigns. Empathy between Reichsdeutsche and Ausländsdeutsche was immediately intelligible in the context of a common war effort, but later trips foundered a divergence of opinion about where charity was needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015
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