Abstract Despite a minority status that often left them viewed as outsiders, German Catholics – like their compatriots more generally – rallied behind the war effort in 1914. Indeed, intense involvement in the war effort came to be seen as a way to finally squash any remaining suspicions about whether Catholics could truly ever be at home in a country with a Protestant majority. Yet, as the war continued and conditions in Germany worsened, the divisions both within the Catholic Centre Party and among all political parties in the Reich began to resurface and cast a shadow on the common war effort. In an attempt to maintain unity and continued mobilisation for the war, Catholic rhetoric in outlets like the newspaper Germania – a leading organ of the Centre Party – crafted a narrative that redrew the mental map of the German homeland. To do so, the rhetoric relied upon formative geographic tropes established right after unification in 1871 that stressed regionalism and diversity as the hallmark of unity and Germanness. At first sticking closely to efforts at emphasising the centrality of Catholic regions on the periphery, the rhetoric in late 1915 and early 1916 turned towards stretching the map of the German homeland east, especially to the Baltics.

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重新规划德国家园：第一次世界大战期间日耳曼和天主教努力动员持续支持

摘要 尽管少数群体的地位常常让他们被视为局外人，但德国天主教徒——更普遍地像他们的同胞一样——在 1914 年团结起来支持战争努力。事实上，强烈参与战争努力被视为最终压制任何剩余的人的方式。怀疑天主教徒是否真的能在一个新教徒占多数的国家待在家里。然而，随着战争的继续和德国局势的恶化，天主教中间党内部和帝国所有政党之间的分歧开始重新浮出水面，并给共同的战争努力蒙上了阴影。为了保持团结和继续为战争动员，中间党的主要机关《日耳曼尼亚》等媒体上的天主教言论精心编造了一种叙事，重新绘制了德国家园的心理地图。为此，这种修辞依赖于 1871 年统一后确立的形成性地理比喻，强调地区主义和多样性是统一和德国性的标志。1915 年末和 1916 年初的言论首先密切关注强调外围天主教地区中心地位的努力，后来转向将德国家园的地图向东延伸，尤其是波罗的海地区。