Хорватские ветераны и инвалиды Первой мировой войны в Копривницком округе
Croatian First World War veterans / dissabled persons in Koprivnica county

Summary/Abstract: The research project «The First World War in the Culture of Memory. Forgotten Heritage» has entailed, among others, research subjects related to the First World War veterans and disabled Croatian soldiers as well as work of their associations in Croatia. While, on one hand, a scarce literature about Croatian First World War veterans and disabled persons was ascertained, the project itself has pointed out, based on the researched archival records, the veterans’ associations mimicry, and great heterogeneity of this population in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. Research investigations have indicated how Croatian First World War veterans / disabled persons — former soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army — in the post-war (between two world wars) economic circumstances and social conditions, have immersedthemselves either into veterans’ culture of unification (and victory), or they had vanished in the culture of forgetting. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide an insight into Croatian veterans/disabled persons agency in the Koprivnica area after the First World War. Namely, based on researched available archival records and scholarly/expert literature, the aim is to provide evidence to their presence in local community life. The study case of Croatian war veterans/disabled persons in the Koprivnica County, has enabled one to determine according to analyzed archival records — newspapers — what kind of their organized (local) agency was evident in the public. In doing so, this research represents an initial effort to grapple with issues related to forgotten history of the First World War in Croatia, and in particular with research problems related to local levels of microhistory of everyday life of Croatian war veterans.

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