The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945: Rescue and DestructionIlana Fritz Offenberger
Austrian history, notoriously, has suffered a memory void: from March 1938 until April 1945 it disappears. This is partly because of the official reason: the state of Austria had ceased to exist after the Anschluss, swallowed up by Hitler’s German Reich, and only returned to life in April 1945 as th...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 321-323 |
Review of: | The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938 - 1945 (Cham, 2017) (Beller, Steven)
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Summary: | Austrian history, notoriously, has suffered a memory void: from March 1938 until April 1945 it disappears. This is partly because of the official reason: the state of Austria had ceased to exist after the Anschluss, swallowed up by Hitler’s German Reich, and only returned to life in April 1945 as the Second Republic. There is also the fact that this period shows most Austrians behaving extremely badly, almost all obeying the Third Reich and a significant number perpetrating heinous atrocities, probably with even more gusto than their “fellow Germans” in Germany proper. |
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ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa031 |