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5 - The Hinterland

from Part II - The Rear

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2021

Włodzimierz Borodziej
Affiliation:
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
Maciej Górny
Affiliation:
Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau
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Summary

A visitor wandering the streets of Vienna, Belgrade, Berlin, or Bucharest in the penultimate year of the Great War would have witnessed more or less the same scene in each of those cities: men in oversized suits or uniforms and women in dresses that had fitted them perfectly a few years earlier. The same visitor would have also noticed a proliferation of fruit and vegetable gardens, even in front of the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna. The difference between the hinterland and occupied territories was simple: in the former these miniature garden-plots were owned by local residents, whereas on the boulevards of Belgrade or Bucharest they were owned partly by the residents and partly by the occupier’s military units stationed nearby. Life during wartime was hardly better in one’s ‘own’ hinterland than it was in occupied territories.

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Forgotten Wars
Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916
, pp. 161 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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