The Defeated in Victorious State: Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Bohemian Lands and Their (Re)mobilization in the 1930s

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.81" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.81</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.81" target="_blank" >10.14220/zsch.2020.47.1.81</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Defeated in Victorious State: Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Bohemian Lands and Their (Re)mobilization in the 1930s

Original language description

This article focuses on organized veterans whohad fought in the Habsburg army during World War One and their (re)mobilization in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. While the state enabled “defeated” veterans to set up various associations that mirrored different interpretations of their war experiences, it was not willing to include them in its policy towards veterans, which gave preference to exsoldiers who had volunteered for the victorious pro-Entente armies. In the late 1930s, the state additionally recognized volunteers from the post-1918 borderland wars as a new group of veterans with special status. It also brought together Czech veterans from the Austro-Hungarian Army into a central organization as “reservists and ex-soldiers” of the Czechoslovak Army. No matter how diversified German veterans in the Bohemian lands were in practice, they were mistrusted by both the state and most Czech veterans. Hence, German veterans were eventually left open to political instrumentalization by the Sudeten German Party, which used them to gain support for its irredentist policy in 1938. This internal problem of Czechoslovak veterans’ politics became internationalized by the fascist-dominated Comit8 International Permanent (CIP), which sought to overcome the unequal treatment of Czech and German veterans by using the fascist myth of the frontline soldier as a shorthand for criticising Czechoslovak statehood.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GF17-33831L" target="_blank" >GF17-33831L: WWI Veterans in Czechoslovakia and Austria 1918-38</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeitgeschichte

ISSN

0256-5250

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

81-105

UT code for WoS article

000524247900004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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