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Ernst Kutzer: „And it is not in solitude that you fight the difficult battle …”, Propaganda postcard, 1914

Mythologisation of the “community of fate” between the German Reich and Austria, illustrated as two female figures under the “German” oak.

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Austrian National Library
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    The concept of ‘German Central Europe’

    In the 1980s the concept of ‘Central Europe’ experienced a renaissance in intellectual circles. From the Austrian point of view ‘Central Europe’ was understood as being made up of the successor states of the Monarchy, which some romanticized as having been a happily harmonious patchwork of peoples. The term was not always understood in this way: around 1900 ‘Central Europe’ had quite a different meaning.