Romanians in Austro-Hungarian Army

[Najroda]

The source of the nationality data I posted is the 1910 (Austro-) Hungarian census, which is surprisingly consistent with the post-WWI Romanian censuses, apart from the fact that the first categorized the census subjects according to their self-declared nationality, while the latter administratively reduced the number of Hungarians by deducting those who declared themselves Hungarian by nationality but at the same time jewish, lutheran, greek catholic etc. by religion, and put them in the Jewish, German or Romanian category.

[johnny_bi]

Hmmm. About the complexity of the situation I can give you the examples of my relatives: two of my grand-grand fathers were drafted in the A-H army. One if them, apparently fought in the Balkans and the other one in Italy (he was wounded there and he died 20 years later because of an infection - the doctors could not extract the "schrappnels" from his backbone). An other grand-grandfather was drafted in the Romanian army and he participated, at least, in the actions against the Bolshevics in Hungary.
I think this is a tragic situation for the nationalities, other than Hungarian, Austrian and German, that fought in the A-H Army. And this tragic situation was above the figures.

[Dénes]

Here are a few a postcards of Rumanian ethnic Austro-Hungarian soldiers, sent during W.W. 1:




From eBay.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on September 29, 2004 07:16 pm