Read the Kantonspflicht part. They were drafted peasants.
>Yes. The only escape for peasants in the 1800's to >1930s was to go on pilgrimages.
Read old newspapers and alamanachs. They regularly locked vagabunds up into workhouses and the "euthanization" in the camps starting 1930 was just a continuation of that policy. Religous pilgrimage, entering servitude (sailor on ships etc.) or being rich was the only way to be able to migrate over long distances.Of course there were the usual religous purges, which pushed parts of the population to migrate to "safe havens" in the local klein-staaterei.
>The crusader knights surely promised the conquered lands to peasants who would follow them
I was wrong there. It was mostly greek-orthodox and armeniens. If you read the sources, the whole crusade affairs were a mess, regularly bogging down in local warfare and criminal activity along the road.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldatenhandel_unter_Landgraf_...
Read the Kantonspflicht part. They were drafted peasants.
>Yes. The only escape for peasants in the 1800's to >1930s was to go on pilgrimages.
Read old newspapers and alamanachs. They regularly locked vagabunds up into workhouses and the "euthanization" in the camps starting 1930 was just a continuation of that policy. Religous pilgrimage, entering servitude (sailor on ships etc.) or being rich was the only way to be able to migrate over long distances.Of course there were the usual religous purges, which pushed parts of the population to migrate to "safe havens" in the local klein-staaterei.
https://wiki.genealogy.net/Franken_J%C3%BCdisch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugenotten#Hugenotten_in_Deuts...
>The crusader knights surely promised the conquered lands to peasants who would follow them
I was wrong there. It was mostly greek-orthodox and armeniens. If you read the sources, the whole crusade affairs were a mess, regularly bogging down in local warfare and criminal activity along the road.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCrstentum_Antiochia#Geog...