O wie Optimism

Buchenau, Peter; Hofmann, Alexander

doi:10.1007/978-3-8349-6852-4_6

Die Performer-Methode 2012

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-6852-4_6

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O wie Optimism

Peter Buchenau¹,

Alexander Hofmann²

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“…In Mexico, Austrian and Swiss nationals, as well as other groups of Mennonites from Canada, paralleled the Menno Colony in their indifference to Germany, Nazi or otherwise. 52 Business-minded Germans sensed the potential for increased trade with the homeland under the Nazis but they were wary of its aggressive geopolitics. In urban centers, exiled artists and intellectuals attacked Nazi Germany as a corruption of Germanness and established a network of anti-fascist groups.…”

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Rustic Reich: The Local Meanings of (Trans)National Socialism among Paraguay's Mennonite Colonies

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This article compares two German-speaking Mennonite colonies in Paraguay and their encounters with Nazism during the 1930s. It focuses on their understandings of the Nazi bid for transnationalvölkischunity. Latin America presents a unique context for studying the Nazis’ relationship to German-speakers abroad because it held the allure of being the last prospect for German cultural and economic expansion, but was simultaneously impossible for the German state to invade. The Menno Colony was made up of voluntary migrants from Canada who arrived in Paraguay in the 1920s. The Fernheim Colony was composed of refugees from the Soviet Union who settled alongside the Menno Colony in the 1930s. Both groups shared a history in nineteenth-century Russia as well as a common faith and culture. Nevertheless, they developed radically different opinions aboutvölkischnationalism. The Menno Colony's communal understanding of Germanness madevölkischpropaganda about Hitler's “New Germany” unappealing to their local sensibilities. They rejected all forms of nationalism as worldly attempts to thwart their cultural-religious isolationism. The refugees of Fernheim Colony, by contrast, shared little communal unity since they originated from diverse settlements across the Soviet Union. They viewed Germanness as a potential bridge to an imagined German homeland and believed that the highest goal ofvölkischunity was to promote communal unity. Resembling other German-speaking communities in Latin America, the two colonies—which seemed identical to Nazi observers—held vastly different interpretations ofvölkischnationalism at the height of the Nazi bid to establish transnational German unity in Latin America.

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