14 March 1938: the Guardian reports on the annexation of Austria into the German Reich Austria was last night officially proclaimed a “State of the German Reich.” The Anschluss has been brought into ...

Eighty four years ago on March 12, 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In January 1933, Germany’s Jews were already under the grip of Nazism with the rise of the Nazi party, and just five years ...

HAT is Austria and who is she? . . . She is a miserable spittoon.’ Thus contemptuously did Mussolini, almost exactly ten years ago, refer to the tiny nation to his north which, periodically since the ...

When the Nazis marched into Austrian on March 12, 1938, hundreds of thousands of Austrians turned out to welcome them. But after the war, the country preferred to see itself as just another of ...

In 1938, Adolf Hitler was greeted by boisterous crowds in Vienna as Nazi Germany annexed Austria. President Alexander Van der Bellen said Austrians "were not only victims, but also perpetrators." ...

Austria's new National Exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial underscores one main point: the country has dropped its victim myth. It has taken Austria a long time to decide on how to narrate ...

A flag is carried by Austrian Nazi at a rally circa 1930(Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Austria's relationship with the Nazis was complex. Adolf Hitler was Austrian, yet Austria was ...

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A new report on stolen property during the Nazi era says Austria's record on restitution has been 'half-hearted'. British historian Robert Knight served on the commission that produced the report, and ...