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Our wounds still burn deep! The First World War Disabled Veterans in Local Communities in the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia and in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

It is the common knowledge The First World War had gain epithet the Great because the conflict involved 36 states and 70 million mobilized soldiers. During the War 10 million soldiers died and there were 20 million disabled. But even today we have only some rough estimation on how many Croatian citizens were mobilized, died, or wounded during the War, and after the War, how many there were Croatian disabled veterans, former Austro- Hungarian soldiers. In the recent years due to the First World War centenary (2014-2018) researchers and academic community offered some more concrete insights on the First World War history on the territory of today Republic Croatia (Heman Kaurić, 2020) although the veteran’s and disabled’s question in interwar and socialist period is still under researched. At the end of the Great War the pictures of the wounded soldiers were every day occurrences in Croatia. At the beginning of 1919 they already organized themselves in humanitarian disabled veteran organizations, but their position as former Austro-Hungarian soldiers were somewhat different than those of soldiers who fought on the victorious side. Local communities, such as Koprivnička Podravina, northern Croatian region on the border with Hungary is taken as an example, for the micro analysis of position of disabled war veterans in the first and the second Yugoslavia. This paper examines WWI invalids question within the composite and multi-ethnic and multiregional state(s) of Yugoslavia but through the prism of the local communities and it is a part of continuous research on relationship of government toward the First World War veterans and their position in multiethnic and multinational states such were Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia and Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.

The First World War disabled veterans ; local communities ; Yugoslavia

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