Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"germans"”.
-
Reluctant Germans: performing identity abroad
This thesis deals with members of a particular age cohort of German migrants in Cape Town. The informants all belong to Germany's 'post-boomer' generation, which has been the subject of much recent popular media coverage in Germany. Similar situations have been portrayed in writings from the USA. …
-
Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… and eighteenth centuries, around 250,000 Germans served in the Dutch East India Company in its territories in southern Africa and southeast Asia, totalling over a quarter of the Company’s workforce. Germans enlisted primarily as sailors and soldiers, and to a lesser extent as artisans, …
-
The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War
The German Army, also known as the Wehrmacht, fought a brutal war on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. These soldiers, under the command of military officials of the Nazi state, vowed to destroy Bolshevism and Jewish populations. By examining letters from soldiers to family members on …
-
Encountering Germans: the Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-1918
… occupation culture demanded opposition to the Germans and expressions of patriotism, often containing a performative element. This could be achieved through the protests of French notables, symbolic gestures carried out by the wider population, and active resistance involving a minority of …
-
The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
… if the Jews are studied not as Jews but as Germans. If the reactions of German Jews to Nazism were not as exceptional as one would have expected, perhaps it was because German Jews would not accept or believe that they were outsiders who were shunned by Germans–even National Socialist …
-
Construction of national identity and national pride of Germans in the intercultural context
… One focus group was conducted to analyze how Germans construct and/or reinvent their national identity when communicating with individuals from other nations.</p> <p>The results show that German national identity and national pride are strongly intertwined and poise a unique problem for every …
-
The British army of the Rhine and the Germans (1948-1957): from enemies to partners
… official contacts between the Services and the Germans, but also the more individual levels of contact, including living conditions of troops, social interaction and points of friction between soldiers and civilians. The thesis argues that the success of the transformation of the BAOR from a …
-
Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
This study examines the socioeconomic lives of artisans of German descent who worked within Wythe County, Virginia from 1780 to 1830. It is particularly concerned with how a distinct German-American culture manifests over time as seen through these artisans' produced materials and structures. This …
-
"""For God, Mac, and country"": The political worlds of midwestern Germans during the Civil War era"
… war aims, and emancipation. In addition, Germans continued to voice concern with perceived threats to their ethnic identity. The German-language press wrote often about temperance agitation, Sabbatarianism, and other attempts at social control. Involvement in the political process meant …
-
Nazis into Germans : re-education and democratisation in the British and French occupation zones, 1945-1949
… democratic ideas were to be firmly rooted in the Germans' collective consciousness. This research focuses on the democratisation policies of the two smaller of the four Allied powers, France and Great Britain, during the four years between the collapse of the Third Reich and the foundation of the …
-
“Not With an Iron Fist, But With a Velvet Glove”: The ‘Good Germans’ Theory in Nazi Occupied Denmark
… the Danes were able to foil a plan that took the Germans a month to create.</p> <p>This result gave rise to a theory conceived by some historians known as the ‘Good Germans’ Theory. It holds that the deportation in Denmark was initiated and then deliberately sabotaged by the local German …
-
A Comparative study of language attitudes, use and identity in two returnee migrant contexts: Greek-Brazilians and Greek-Germans in Greece
Language is an important tool in the construction and expression of ethnic and socio-cultural identity. This study explores language use, attitudes and code-switching practices, in the (re)construction and (re)positioning of identity in a migrant context of three generations of Greek-Brazilian and …
-
The Germans of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation and the Making of a German-American Community in Acadia Parish, 1881-1917
The Germans of Geilenkirchen-Hengesburg region of Germany were convinced by relative and friend, Father Peter Leonard Thevis, of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, to emigrate to the United States for a number of reasons: political, religious, and economic. After establishing themselves on land …
-
The German Canadians in Saskatchewan with Particular Reference to the Language Problem, 1900-1930
… their language and culture. Thousands of Germans were attracted to Saskatchewan because of the prospect of being able to retain their Deutschtum (Germanism) and the availability of fertile and inexpensive land. The majority of Germans came from countries other than Germany but they had …
-
Negotiating the atrocious past : an exploration of the impact of the legacies of the Nazi-period on the third generation of post-war Germans
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-89).
-
The Historiography of the Allied Bombing Campaign of Germany.
… which is the question of remembrance and Germans as victims of the war.</p><p>This study concludes that the strategic bombing campaign of Germany was a success but not in the sense that prewar planners had anticipated. The moral implications of the bombings were horrific, but given the …
-
La Représentation des Allemands dans le Roman Français de l'immédiat Après-Seconde Guerre Mondiale / Representations of Germans in French Novels in the Aftermath of World War II
Cette etude se divisera en cinq chapitres. Le premier, intitule 'Entre souvenirs, rumeurs et fantasmes : la (re)decouverte des Allemands dans Les chemins de la Liberte de Jean-Paul Sartre', s'attachera a suivre I'apparition progressive du danger allemand aux yeux du personnel romanesque de la …
Page 1 of 8