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Impérial Gaga, French caricature, 1915

The caricature shows Franz Joseph as a senile old man sitting in a pram. From La Baionette, issue of 5 August 1915, p. 1.

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    Forms of Masculinity – Hierarchies, Rivals, Competitors

    In the First World War the unique multinational concept underlying the Habsburg Monarchy’s army, according to which the different ethnicities were committed to the emperor and the idea of a common ‘fatherland’, led to different forms of military masculinity determined by region, faith and social background.