‘Mentally broken, physically a wreck…’: Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service

Hämmerle, Christa

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“…For example, using autobiographical accounts of nurses in the Austro-Hungarian forces Hammerle has shown that these women too encountered trauma and psychological problems as result of their war service. 32 Battlefield trauma among military and nursing personnel of both genders was different from the experiences endured by civilians but the impact of the war was no less traumatic on civilians. Proctor's work on the effects of the First World War on civilians recorded an estimated six million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, adding 'many more faced loss of health, mind and property in the course of the conflict'.…”

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War trauma among Belgian refugee women in Scotland in the First World War

Jenkinson

Verdier

2019

Women's History Review

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This article analyses the evidence for war trauma suffered by First World War Belgian female refugee civilians using a range of primary sources which describe the period of their residence in Scotland. Evidence of such war trauma is explored by analysing the descriptions of symptoms and applicant behaviour for a cohort of case studies of women (and several children and men) which have been constructed from the detailed personal information provided in Poor Law admission registers and patient case notes from psychiatric and general hospital stays. The individual case histories discussed are considered in relation to internationally recognised definitions of war trauma. The article places the original primary source findings in the context of the vast traditional historiography on 'shell shock' and the more recent writing on female civilians in war. This article sheds fresh light on historical debates about human security in the First World War, gender issues in war, understandings of war trauma, and family life on the home front.

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War trauma among Belgian refugee women in Scotland in the First World War

Jenkinson

Verdier

2019

Women's History Review

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“…The title of Adrienne Thomas's(1897Thomas's( -1980 novel Die Katrin wird Soldat: Ein Roman aus Elsass-Lothringen (Katrin Becomes aS oldier,1 930) squarely places women on the "front" while serving behind the scenes.A lso basedo n ad iary,h er novel provides an intimate view of women'sw ork duringW orld WarIand the horrors of patchingt ogethert he wounded in order to return them to battlefields.⁹ Indeed, women contributed substantiallyt othe war effort as nurses, ambulance drivers, spies, reporters, workers in munitionsfactories¹⁰ and as female au- See Brian Murdoch (1992) and Walter Hinck (2009) for moreo nT homas'sn ovel. On German and Austrian women'sw orkb ehind the lines as nurses and memberso ft he women'sa uxiliary service, see, for instance, Regina Schulte (1997), Bianca ), Helen Boak (2013, and Christa Hämmerle (2014).  Formoreonwomen'shistorical contributions to and experiences of World WarIinternationally, see for instance, Gail Braybon (1981), Margaret R. Higonnet,e ta l. (1987), Higonnet (2011), thors and artists who, broadlyspeaking,narrativized, for the most part critically, the war experience in essays,l iterature, sculptures and etchings.B ertha von Suttner (1843Suttner ( -1914 heralded pacifisma lreadyi n1 889,p rior to majorG erman colonial wars and World WarIin her famous pacifist novel Die Waffen nieder!…”

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Women Writing War

2018

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Springorum (2002) focus on the German contexti nt heir texts. Cardinal'sdiscussionincludes novels (Bertha vonSuttner,Käte Kestien, Clara Viebig), novellas (ClaireG oll), diaries and memoirs (JoM ihaly/PieteK uhr,A nna Eisenmenger, AdaS chnee), fictional diaries (Adrienne Thomas), poetry (Berta Lask, Ricarda Huch), letters( Rosa Luxemburg), political writings (Clara Zetkin, HedwigD ohm, Annette Kolb), plays (Ilse Langner), songs (Hedda Zinner)a nd artwork (Käthe Kollwitz).  See, for example,FriederikeEmonds'sexamination of the concepts of Heimat and Vaterland in Ilse Langner's Frau Emma kämpft im Hinterland (FrauE mma fights in the hinterland, 1929) (1998) and Inca Rumold's "Der Malik: Else Lasker-Schüler'sA nti-WarN ovel" (1998).  Fori nstance, CarolineB land analyzes the notion of sacrificei nWorld WarInovels by Lily Braun and Clara Viebig (2007).  See, for instance, Patricia Marchesi (2004).  Forexample, Ulrike Tanzer (2013) and Dorothee Wierling( 2013) both examine archival materials to offer new insights regarding the livesa nd works of Rosa Mayreder and LilyB raun respectively,i np articular their evolvingt houghts on the war,women'sr oles and pacifism.  See, for instance, ErikaQuinn's "At War: Thea vonHarbou, Women, and the Nation" (2017). related to the colonial wars and World WarIdrawso nm ultiple genres to deal with the complexities of violence and crisis. Novels, novellas and autobiographical accounts such as diaries, letters and reports,oralhistory (songs, interviews), visual art,p ublic lectures, and av ariety of print media, includingn ewspapers, magazines and journals provide generic frameworks to organize meaning.

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Palmer¹

2021

Nurse Memoirs From the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

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‘Mentally broken, physically a wreck…’: Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service

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War trauma among Belgian refugee women in Scotland in the First World War

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