Victims' State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 Hsia Ke-Chin
Victims' State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 Hsia Ke-Chin The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global…
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Victims' State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 Hsia Ke-Chin
The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global conflict. Among those who lived, the wounded, the disabled, and their dependents constituted at least several million people whose survival was endangered both during and after the war. At the end of the war, it was estimated that 1.2 million soldiers, out of 8 million men and 100,000 women mobilized from an empire of 52 million, perished in service.
What care and support were offered to disabled soldiers and dead soldiers' surviving dependents?Victims' State offers the first integrated account of how the Austrian half of the empire and the successor Austrian Republic responded to the needs of citizen-soldiers and their families from the nineteenth How did the Habsburg Empire confront the scale of the casualties brought about by the First World War?