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“The rape of the Germans”, propaganda postcard, 1897

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    Fear of losing hegemony: The German-Austrians in the Austrian multi-national state

    In the nineteenth century the Germans were considered by many to be the most important ‘guarantors of culture’ in Central Europe and were themselves convinced that they had a special cultural ‘mission’ to fulfil. This assumption, however, was increasingly challenged by the newly founded nationalist movements of the smaller peoples of the region.