El nacionalismo radical alemán y la cuestión de las minorías nacionales durante la República de Weimar (1919-1933)

Resumo

After its defeat in World War I, Germany was obliged to face with a new problem: the protection and defence of the interests of the new Germán minorities dispersed through East-Central Europe. The intenese pressure exerted by a complex network of organisations, some of them existing prior to 1914, devoted to the defense of Germán minorities abroad, added a new element to the minorities policy developed by the Weimar Republic in Geneva. The movement for the defence of Germans abroad reinforced its links with the vólkisch-oriented Germán nationalism, and as a result of this a new theory on the national «reestructuring» of Europe was elaborated. The emphasis put on Germán minorities being a kind of «purest» expression of the Germán national character adopted a clear conservative and antiliberal stance. One of the main theoreticians of this nationalist trend was Max-Hildebert Boehm. After 1933, many of the proposals put forward by these theoreticians were transformed and reoriented by National-Socialism.