Sovereignty and Empire in the North Sea, 1807-1918
Sovereignty and Empire in the North Sea, 1807-1918
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北海的主权和帝国，1807-1918 年
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10.1093/ahr/119.2.313
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2014
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Rüger J
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1916年2月，西奥多·卢厄斯自愿参加第一次世界大战。他觉得是时候尽自己的一份力了。澳大利亚当局则不那么信服。当然，他们迫切需要志愿者——两个新的步兵师被派往欧洲，他们的队伍必须填补。lhrs符合要求：他的年龄合适，没有健康问题。但他也是德国人，至少国防部是这么认为的。在长达六个月的时间里，国务院与其他政府部门讨论了他的案件，在这个案件中，“国籍”、“忠诚”和“帝国”这三个词似乎令人沮丧地相互矛盾。lhrs出生在英国在北海的殖民地黑尔戈兰。1890年，该岛被割让给德意志帝国。当地居民有权继续做英国臣民，而他的父母却没有这样做。但是，“不喜欢德国统治”的<s:1>赫斯特人离开了这个昔日的直辖殖民地，在英国船只上服役。1910年12月，他申请在澳大利亚定居，找到了工作，并娶了“一个塔斯马尼亚女孩”。就他而言，他是帝国的臣民。澳大利亚军队不同意。在它看来，l<s:1> hrs的父母已经从天然出生的英国国民变成了德国国民：因此他是“敌对的外国父母”。许多当地政要写信抗议，称l<s:2> hrs是“帝国的忠实臣民”，“没有德国倾向”。相反，他“一直为自己出生在英国国旗下而自豪”。但是外交部明确表示：“不允许有敌人血统的人加入澳大利亚帝国军队。”发现这是“一个极其尴尬和不幸的处境”的lhrs继续坚持说他不是格尔
IN FEBRUARY 1916, THEODOR Luhrs VOLUNTEERED to fight in the Great War. It was time, he felt, that he did his bit. The Australian authorities were less convinced. Certainly, they desperately needed volunteers—two new infantry divisions were to be sent to Europe, and their ranks had to be filled. Lührs fitted the bill: he was the right age and had no medical conditions. But he was also German, or so the Department of Defence thought. For six months it discussed his case with other government departments, a case in which the terms “nationality,”“loyalty,” and “empire” seemed frustratingly confficted. Lührs had been born in Heligoland, a British colony in the North Sea. In 1890, the island had been ceded to Imperial Germany. The inhabitants had been given the right to remain British subjects, which his parents had chosen not to do. But Lührs,“not liking the German rule,” had left the erstwhile crown colony to serve on British ships. In December 1910, he had claimed residence in Australia, found work, and married “a Tasmanian girl.” As far as he was concerned, he was a subject of the empire.The Australian Army disagreed. In its view, Lührs’s parents had turned from natural-born British subjects into German nationals: thus he was of “enemy alien parentage.” A number of local dignitaries wrote to protest that Lührs was “a loyal subject of the Empire” and had “no German leanings.” On the contrary, he had “always been proud to have been born under the British ffag.” 1 But the Department of External Affairs was clear:“the enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force of men of enemy parentage is not permitted.” 2 Lührs, who found this to be “an extremely awkward and unfortunate position,” continued to insist that he was not Ger-