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Navigating the Middle: Integration of Inland Navigation in Central Europe and the Second World War

Publikace na Filozofická fakulta |
2022

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Bulk of literature situates the end of "internationalisation" of waterways in Central Europe to the 1936 and links it to the rise of Nazism. Others identify the arrival of the Iron Curtain as the decisive moment.

Some even combine the two, seeing the Sinaia Agreements of 1938 as a turning point leading to a "de-internationalisation", after which the Danube became a semi-international river of the Soviet Bloc". From the perspective of history of infrastructural systems, it seems that the main discontinuity was not linked to the wartime regimes and organisations, but rather to implementation of the liberal international system during the interwar period.