The black and white photo was taken in Vienna 70 years ago this week: it shows a crowd of ordinary Austrians and a handful of officials sporting swastika armbands. All of them are grinning or smirking ...
Taylor in 1961, The Origins of the Second World War. In a memo written for the Volker Fund, he said: “The central theme of ...
August 1938: Young German officers watching a group of elderly Jewish men scrubbing the streets of Vienna. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ...
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From Anschluss to Sudetenland: How Appeasement Fed Hitler’s Rise
With the increasing aggression of Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s, the League of Nations is becoming increasingly ...
As a little girl in 1940, Gita Kaufman escaped Vienna with her family at the last possible moment. Austria had been under German control for two years, following the bloodless “Anschluss,” or union, ...
“We will dedicate our seventh goal to our wives, and the eighth to our dogs.” West Germany did not expect to be troubled by Algeria at the 1982 World Cup. As one of their players remarked, as per The ...
SALZBURG, Austria (AFP) — “Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels,” says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust. Almost 105 ...
Austria today (12 March) marks the 80th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany, with the country's President Alexander Van der Bellen urging young people not to be "taken in" by neo-fascist and ...
The Nazi-Austrian Interior Minister, Seyss-Inquart, was ordered by Hitler to ask for German help in restoring order in Austria. a propanganda campaign encouraged people to vote for Anschluss Austrian ...
French politics were in turmoil in March 1938. Two days before Germany invaded Austria the entire French government had resigned. France was not in a position to oppose the invasion. In March 1938, ...
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