This article applies a (micro)biographical approach to the life stories of two Ottoman orphans sent to Germany to receive vocational training during World War I, Ali and İ smail Dağlı. Coupling family archives, oral and visual sources with state documentation, I elaborate on the post-Ottoman afterl…
Policy transfer was a key element in the unification of both German states. Although a policy of "no experiments" initially prevailed, it proved to have multidimensional consequences that varied across policy sectors and included imitation, adaptation, and limited innovation. Later, triadic forces o…
