ABSTRACT
During the war, troops of all nationalities feared-whether as victors or losers —that they would be forgotten and their sacrifice made meaningless. In Germany these problems started right after the war with the need to meet war reparations leading to unemployment and poverty. The onset of the great depression saw economic recession become a worldwide problem which, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, affected many veterans, forcing some to live on the road.
