Sankt Raphaels Verein and German-Catholic Emigration to Canada from 1919 to 1939

Grams, Grant W.

doi:10.1353/cat.2005.0105

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“…A Sankt Raphaels Verein zum Schutze Katholischer Deutscher Auswanderer (Sociedade São Rafael de Proteção aos Emigrantes Católicos Alemães), fundada em 1871, negociou condições de emigração com funcionários de governos, igrejas e companhias de navegação e forneceu uma rede de apoio, abrigo e assentamento aos católicos alemães que tinham como destino, principalmente, países da América. A Sankt Raphaels Verein operou, de forma mais intensa, no período anterior a Segunda Guerra Mundial(GRAMS, 2005).…”

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Martin Fischer: Imigração e Intelectualidade

Dirk

2021

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Martin Robert Richard Fischer, natural da Prússia Oriental, graduou-se e doutorou-se em Direito. Participou da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Esteve no Brasil na década de 1920 onde desenvolveu atividades de jornalista. De volta à Alemanha trabalhou em agência de notícias do governo. Em 1934 vem para Buenos Aires, para dirigir a agência noticiosa DNB. Não querendo prolongar seu contrato devido a questões com o Partido Nazista, passou a sofrer perseguições. Decidiu, então, refugiar-se no interior do pequeno município de Iraí, no norte do Rio Grande do Sul, onde se instalou em uma pequena propriedade rural. Em 1951 transferiu residência para Ijuí, onde colaborou em jornal impresso e em empresa de rádio. Foi também o primeiro diretor do Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana.

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Martin Fischer: Imigração e Intelectualidade

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2021

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“…42 Now the VDA looked on the colony in the heart of South America as a strategic agrarian connection to the "homeland." 43 To colonists, the VDA's well-oiled propaganda machine was inspiring. The Third Reich represented a global community of peers that they were invited to join.…”

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

Eicher

2018

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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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“…Members of the Auswärtiges Amt (German Foreign Office-AA) and supporters of the German culture observed that German nationals had higher standards and expectations than other immigrants. Some claimed that their arrogance and disdain for nonprofessional work complicated their predicament (Grams 2001(Grams , 2005Rehwinkel 1965;Tischler 1981). During a Sask.…”

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