A Partnership of the Weak: War Victims and the State in the Early First Austrian Republic

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29 septembre 2016

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innsbruck university press

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Post- World War I Empire autro-hongrois République Première Guerre mondiale History HIS040000 HBJD

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Victims of war

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Ke-chin Hsia, « A Partnership of the Weak: War Victims and the State in the Early First Austrian Republic », innsbruck university press, ID : 10670/1.dlxjf8

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This essay examines one specific aspect of what actually was happening in immediate post-WWI Austria: How did war victims, a group of people most directly and adversely affected by the war’s destructive power, interact with the new republican state? Understood by contemporaries to consist mainly of disabled veterans, widows and orphans, war victims were especially vulnerable — economically and physically — in postwar Austrian society. Lacking viable work abilities and opportunities in a broke...

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