A Study of the Germans' Eastward Emigration: the Historical Origion Regarding Hilter's Lebensraum

• Main Authors: Tu, Tzu-Hsin, 杜子信
• Other Authors: Wang, Tseng-Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95320837099854671965

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所 === 86 === Viewing generally from the German history, the Germans' Eastward Emigration, having influenced deeply on the European history an dbeing in the process of overall European territorial expansion and emigration, has lasted for quite a long time ranging from the eighth to the nineteenth century and been called across-centuries emigration movement. The Germans' Emigration districts being all over in the Central and Eastern Europe on the ground that the recent nationalism has spreaded throughout the Europe and quite a few countries in the Central and Eastern Europe turned into neonation states; meanwhile, the German minority were not satisfied with their status and incited by the Nazis. The Nazis thought of the German Emigration districts as the basis for the Eastward Expansion of Pan German Natonalism, especially with the extreme development of Hitler's "Lebenstaum", which finally caused the Nazis to invade eastward. Thsi thesis presents a detailed analysis of the Germans' Eastward Emigration. Firstly, the origin and the distribution of the German, besides the relationship between the Germans and the nations of the Central and Eastern Europe help us understand the situation in the Central and Eastern Europe before the Germans' Eastward Movement. Secondly, the cause, the process and the influence of the Germans' Eastward Evigration are analyzed carefully. Lastly, the problem caused by the districts of the German Eastward Emigration to contemporary Europe, with the analysis of the cause and effect for Pan German Nationalists and the basis taken by Hitler's Eastward Expansion. This thesis accordingly is divided into the following chapters:Introduction; 1. The historical background of the forming of the Germans; 2. The consequense of the German Eastward Emigration; 4. The problems resulted from the districts of the german Eastward Emigration to contemporary Europe and the solution after World War II; Conclusion. The thesis consludes that the discussion from theviewpoint regarding the equating the German Eastward Emigration in the Middle Ages with the contemporary German Eastward Expansion by the western and slavic historians form the German ones and the related materials.