Comrade lace-up

Comrade Schnürschuh were called Austrian soldiers by their German comrades during World War I , because they wore laced and not closed boots ( Knobelbecher ) like the German soldiers. There is a certain disdain with the term .

See also

• Mate lace-up syndrome

literature

• Bertrand Michael Buchmann: Austrians in the German Wehrmacht, everyday soldiers in World War II . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78444-9 .
• Rainer F. Schmidt : Germany and Europe . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08262-X , p. 133.

Web links

• Comrade Schnürschuh Im Spiegel (25/1972) June 12, 1972.
• Common war, divided memory: 1914 in Germany and Austria. Interview with the historian Brigitte Hamann. In: The world. June 2004.
• Beloved contemporaries

source

1. ↑ Sven Kellerhoff in conversation with Brigitte Hamann : Comrade Schnürschuh. Common war, divided memory: 1914 in Germany and Austria. In: The world . June 24, 2004, accessed on July 24, 2015 : "In Germany [...] the Austrians - 'Comrade Schnürschuh' - have never been fully taken for granted [...]"