LEADER 04712nam 2200709 450 001 9910464995203321 005 20210701021423.0 010 $a0-8014-7118-4 010 $a1-322-52242-1 010 $a0-8014-7119-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801471193 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216381 035 $a(OCoLC)887802696 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10904421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001290986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11722463 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001290986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11244995 035 $a(PQKB)10623437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138629 035 $a(OCoLC)967522954 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51943 035 $a(DE-B1597)478310 035 $a(OCoLC)979577560 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801471193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138629 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904421 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683524 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216381 100 $a20140815h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe impossible border $eGermany and the east, 1914-1922 /$fAnnemarie H. Sammartino 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2010. 210 4$d©2010 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-4863-8 311 0 $a0-8014-7946-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty --$t1. "German Brothers": War and Migration --$t2. "Now We Were the Border": The Freikorps Baltic Campaign --$t3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost --$t4. "We Who Suffered Most": The Immigration of Germans from Poland --$t5. "A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners": The Frustrations of Border Control --$t6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War --$t7. "A Firm Inner Connection to Germany": Naturalization Policy --$t8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum --$tConclusion: The Legacy of Crisis --$tAppendix: Maps --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new Polish state, Russian émigrés poured into the German capital, and East European Jews sought protection in Germany from the upheaval in their homelands. Nor was the movement in one direction only: German Freikorps sought to found a soldiers' colony in Latvia, and a group of German socialists planned to settle in a Soviet factory town.In The Impossible Border, Annemarie H. Sammartino explores these waves of migration and their consequences for Germany. Migration became a flashpoint for such controversies as the relative importance of ethnic and cultural belonging, the interaction of nationalism and political ideologies, and whether or not Germany could serve as a place of refuge for those seeking asylum. Sammartino shows the significance of migration for understanding the difficulties confronting the Weimar Republic and the growing appeal of political extremism.Sammartino demonstrates that the moderation of the state in confronting migration was not merely by default, but also by design. However, the ability of a republican nation-state to control its borders became a barometer for its overall success or failure. Meanwhile, debates about migration were a forum for political extremists to develop increasingly radical understandings of the relationship between the state, its citizens, and its frontiers. The widespread conviction that the democratic republic could not control its "impossible" Eastern borders fostered the ideologies of those on the radical right who sought to resolve the issue by force and for all time. 606 $aCitizenship$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xTerritorial questions$zGermany 607 $aGermany$xBoundaries 607 $aGermany$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1871-1918 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCitizenship$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xTerritorial questions 676 $a940.3/1 700 $aSammartino$b Annemarie$0973884 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464995203321 996 $aThe impossible border$92216452 997 $aUNINA