"A People with Two Souls": The Dual Identity of the Germans in Hungary, 1918-1944 (Research Brief)

My research this year has proven to me that the situation, that is the “ethnic identity” of the Hungarian Germans, is much more complicated and much more nuanced. Also, the overused dichotomy of civic and ethnic nationalism is in many ways too black and white. My work on the example of the Ethnic Germany minority in Hungary will enhance future discussions on ethnicity and nationalism as well as help us rethink our views of national and ethnic minorities today.

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John C. Swanson, of the Utica College of Syracuse University, was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.