| Title |
"Memelenderių" daryba, arba ideologinis 1939 metų Klaipėdos krašto aneksijos parengimas |
| Translation of Title |
The making of "Memelländer": how the 1939 Klaipeda region annexation was ideologically prepared? |
| Authors |
Safronovas, Vasilijus |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Acta historica universitatis Klaipedensis: Klaipėdos krašto aneksija 1939 m.: politiniai, ideologiniai ir kariniai aspektai = The 1939 annexation of Klaipėda region: political, ideological, social and military issues.. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2010, [t.] 21, p. 32-68.. ISSN 1392-4095. eISSN 2351-6526 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Klaipėda Region ; public communication space ; identity making ; Memellander ; German nationalism |
| Abstract [eng] |
By using the tension, as well as the experience of unification of local population, the new organization Memeldeutscher Kulturverband shifted the semantics of the pro-German identity ideology towards consolidation of the Region's inhabitants in terms of training their loyalty to National-Socialism and to the ideas of German nationalism. [...] Another periodical rite that performed the function of consolidation was the remembrance of the inhabitants of Klaipeda Region fallen in World War 1 which was annually implemented on the occasion of Toten-sonntag in Klaipeda's Heldenfriedhof. In contrast to Germany, where the aspirations to create a central monument of all-Germany to the fallen in the World War were unsuccessful until 1935, in Klaipeda such a monument to memory of the fallen Memellander was erected as early as in 1931. A collection that was taken up in the Region to build this monument, as well as constant nurturance of the burial-ground, was repre-sented as a tribute to the memory of the fallen for Heimat. Only at the turn of 1938/39, Memeldeutscher Kulturverband began to adjust the whole of the regional rites to the culture of remembrance of National-Socialist Germany. In the analysis of the possibilities of the impact of the pro-German identity ideology, it should first of all be emphasized that 24,24 percent of the Memellander, recorded during the 1925 regional population census, can not be regarded as a figure objectively mirroring the proportion of the Region's inhabitants who might have identified themselves with the meanings that were created within public communication space and associated with 'Memellander' concept. The identification with concepts - both of Memellander and Memeldeutsche - was situational. [...]. |
| Published |
Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2010 |
| CC license |
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