White vintage
White Year is a slang term for birth cohorts of the generation of men who because of not existing conscription no (basic) military service must pay or had to.
After the First World War , these were those born between 1901 and 1913 in Germany , as there was no conscription from 1919 to 1935 during the Reichswehr . These men were too young for military service in the old army or navy until 1918, and too old for military service in the (peace) armed forces until 1939. However, from 1934 onwards they were called up for a short training course.
After the Second World War , it was the male German nationals in West Germany or Austrian nationals born between 1929 and 1937 who had not been called up for service in the Wehrmacht, the Volkssturm or as flak helpers or navy helpers , or who were never conscripted were drafted into the Federal Armed Forces or the Austrian Federal Armed Forces .
These men were born between 1929 (reference date for Germany: January 1, 1929) and 1937 (reference date for Germany: June 30, 1937) and were too young for military service in the Wehrmacht and for service in the new Bundeswehr or in the Austrian Armed Forces already too old.
In West Berlin , this state of affairs lasted until reunification due to the four-power status . However, after October 3, 1990, the age groups up to 1969 were recorded retrospectively, so that only those born up to 1968 can be counted among the "whites".
The white cohorts in Austria include men born between 1930 and 1938.
Since compulsory military service in Germany was suspended in 2011, those born in 1993 or later are white.
Individual evidence
- ^ Press release ( memento of July 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the "Campaign against conscription" from 1996
- ↑ Gabriele Rosenthal: On the constitution of generations in family biographical processes. War, National Socialism and Genocide in Family History and Biography. In: Austrian Journal of History (ÖZG). Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 5 (1994), Volume 4: Biography and History , ISSN 1016-765X , p. 492.