Lokales Leid - Globale Herausforderung: Die Verschickung Osterreichischer Kinder nach Danemark und in die Niederlande im Anschluss an den Ersten Weltkrieg

The humanitarian aid for Austrian children from many parts of the world is to be understood as a social, political and societal reaction to the experience of the First World War. This help is still inscribed in the urban fabric of Vienna today: the names of Schwedenplatz or Argentinierstrasse go back to these relief actions. In 1918, 91% of school-age children in Vienna suffered from malnutrition. Embedded in previously untapped archive material, experience reports and numerous interviews, Isabella Matauschek succeeds in creating a vivid history of one of the first globally understood humanitarian aid actions in a comparison of Denmark and the Netherlands. The host country remained the nostalgically glorified second home for many of the children from Vienna who were sent away.