GERMAN COLONISTS’ ASSISTANCE TO THE FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Based on the State Archive of Volgograd Region)

Morozova Natalia Vladimirovna

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities,
“Rise” Branch of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Akhtubinsk
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St. Dobrolubov, 5, 416501 Akhtubinsk, Russian Federation

Nazarova Tatyana Pavlovna

Candidate of Historical Sciences,
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, History and Political Science,
Volgograd State Agrarian University
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Prosp. Universitetsky, 26, 400002 Volgograd, Russian Federation


Abstract. The study analyzes the main directions of the assistance to the front during the First World War, provided by German colonists, which allows to show the German colonies not as closed societies separated from the rest of the world, but as part of a uniform civil society, covered by the General Patriotic feelings and willing to actively participate in helping
their homeland.

Key words: the First World War, the Germans of Volga region, charity.