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Migration and Mobility. By Marlou Schrover. There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in fact lead to drastic changes in migration and migration policies. The war certainly resulted in numerous severe disruptions in migration patterns: while some migrations came to a standstill because of the war but reappeared ...
- Introduction
- The Size and Destination of The Refugee Population
- The Politics and Practice of Emergency Relief in Wartime
- Refugeedom: The Politics of Cultural Representation
- Aftermaths: Refugees and Relief Workers
- Conclusion
The issue of forced resettlement during the First World War has been given considerable academic attention elsewhere. This article considers the overall scale of population displacement in different locations, and the reception that Europe’s refugees encountered in the destinations they reached.1 The ramifications of the refugee crisis were conside...
The magnitude of the wartime refugee crisis is difficult to establish with precision. It was characterised by multiple flows of human beings, and therefore an imaginary census at a given point in time would underestimate the real total of those who were displaced. Nevertheless, data from different countries suggest that at least 10 million people w...
Against this complex background, involving large numbers of displaced persons, their abrupt departure, and the multiple interpretations given to their displacement, we can begin to trace the efforts made to deal with the consequences of wartime movements. Once urgent needs of food and shelter had been assessed, answers had to be found to the questi...
The flight and expulsion of civilians was shaped by cultural production, which was in turn connected to domestic politics in a broad sense. For example, to dwell on organised expulsions or evacuations was to draw attention to the pernicious consequences of enemy action (as in “atrocity” stories), but it might equally be a means of advertising uncom...
The Russian Revolution as well as the formation of new nation-states contributed to a post-war refugee crisis whose ramifications were no less serious and which rapidly became internationalised. The “successor states” were hostile to Bolshevism and feared that the repatriation of refugees from Soviet Russia would threaten political and social stabi...
The mass movement of civilians during the First World War directly affected millions of men, women and children – refugees and non-refugees alike – but also affected the conduct of belligerent states, civic organisations and diasporic groups in far-flung locations. The burden of assistance posed enormous challenges on state budgets, and this afford...
Physical cost of the war. The cost of the First World War for Germany is estimated to be in the region of $38 Billion. In addition to this consider the massive loss of life. Germany suffered the loss of 1.7 million young men, with another 4.3 million men being wounded during the conflict.
When the Allies liberated Germany and the countries occupied by it, they encountered between 10 and 12 million people who were no longer in their countries of origin on account of Nazi persecution. They were referred to as Displaced Persons (or personnes déplacées – DPs for short), a term that covered a group of people with very different backgrounds and experiences of persecution.
World War I and the Jews. Among the tragic events that occurred in this mourning period of the Jewish calendar was the outbreak of World War I. Naively termed the “Great War,” it was the catalyst for World War II, the Holocaust, and all the other murderous events that would follow in the 20th century. It was brought about by catastrophic ...
Overview. World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. The German population responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]
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Jun 27, 2019 · Millions of people had been displaced. At least 3.5 million German combatants, and at least 750,000 German civilians were dead. Most of Germany’s institutions had crumbled, and its populace was ...
