Der Verein Fur das Deutschtum Im Ausland and Its Observations of Canada Prior to World War One
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Abstract
ABSTRACT/RESUME This work examines the publications of the Verein furdas Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA), Germany's longest running cultural institution interested in supporting the German language and culture abroad. Although this organization was initially formed in 1881 it still operates today, and its modern objectives are similar to its original goals. The VDA publications used in this article represent some of the oldest research ever completed on Canada's German speakers. Such works characterize material that was available to, and used by, the earliest scholars interested in German speakers in Canada. One example is Heinz Lehmann's pioneering research on Canada's ethnic Germans. Ce travail examine Ia publication du Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA), la plus vielle institution culturelle qui opere depuis ses debuts qui s'interesse au support de la culture et Ia langue allemande a l'etranger. Cette organisation qui a vue ses debuts lors du Kaiser Reich continue aujourd'hui avec des objectifs modernes similaire ses buts originaux. Les publications VDA utilises dans cette article represente les recherches les plus anciennejamais completer sur les aurateur allemand Canadien. Ces travaux characterise ]e materiel qui etait disponible au boursier de cette epoque interesse aux aurateurs allemand qui habitait au Canada. On peut en trouve un exemple en Heinz Lehmann durant sa recherche innovatrice entre les deux guerres. Der Verein fur das Deutschtum im Austand (The Society Germans Abroad - VDA) was formed as a private institution in 1881 as the Allgemeiner deutscher Schulverein (General Society of German Schools), but in 1908 was renamed the VDA with the mandate to defend the German language and culture in foreign countries through education. Its main areas of interest were the schools in the border regions of Austria-Hungary and the German settlements of central-eastern Europe. (1) It was the oldest private, non-political organization protecting German culture and heritage abroad from assimilation. (2) Prior to World War I (WWI) some interest was paid to distant lands such as Canada (3) - the VDA had written some articles on Canada's Deutschtum (4) and established preliminary contacts with the GermanCanadian press, e.g. Der Nordwesten, l907. (5) This article will examine the VDA's publications and their assessment of Canada and its Deutschtum (6) before the outbreak of WWI. These observations are based on correspondenc e to the VDA administration and travels in Canada by Alwin Oppel, Robert Streit, and Dr. Hammann-Perleberg - all correspondence took place after the turn of the century. Similar to many Germans, the VDA's vision of Canada was linked to its sparse population, large tracts of virgin land, beautiful scenery, (7) and abundant natural resources (8) -- the country was praised as a paradise hunters and fishers alike. (9) VDA contributor Dr. Hammann-Perleberg wrote that for most of those tin Germany] that belong to the educated elite Canada is hardly more than a geographical expression, but he also warned that Canadian misconceptions of Germany were of an equally grand scale. (10) The VDA's appraisal of the country was also influenced by current emigration trends from Germany, Eastern Europe, and the United States of America. It was widely recognized that the emigration of German citizens was a fraction of the German speakers entering Canada--most were from eastern Europe. Germans were generally recognized as being hardworking and ambitious contributors to Canadian society. (11) They were welcome additions not only due to their honesty and diligence, but also their thoroughness with any given task. (12) Especially after their immediate arrival, Germans were aware that moderate expectations and thriftiness were keys to achieving success, (13) yet the VDA bemoaned that Canada did not allow closed German settlements -- Canadian authorities called their dispersal among English speakers in order to accelerate their assimilation. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".