Imaginea Germaniei și a germanilor în jurnalele de călătorie românești publicate între 1900 și 1940
The image of Germany and the Germans in the Romanian travel journals published between 1900 and 1940

Summary/Abstract: In this ethno-historic study we deal with another category of documents contains German contemporary history having unpublished information about the hard socio-economic situation of German people within interwar period because of the intransigent Paris Peace Treaty System decisions after the First World War. It is clear, therefore, that there are significant differences between German official documents and the Romanian tourist or journalist point of view. The benefits of interpretation from such a very different range of information presented in this type of documents must be linked by the researching method itself. There are several and interesting differences in the manner that the travelers or journalist had understood historic events and how they were really interpret or misinterpret it. Each author has a different approach about this very interesting domain concerning the image of the others. In this essay, each person had refined and reinterpreted the information because of its various structures, but before deciding how to draw right conclusions, we need to examine the differences between the two types of documents. All official and some private document interpretation were under the overwhelming influence of Nazi ideology. So, that we have to tackle with prudence these kind of information. The range of subjects concerning within these documents in a broad sense of 20th century Nazi ideology is enormous. We hope that we had succeeded in our attempt concerning the extraction and analyzing main essential ethnologic and historic information from these books.

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