New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Plasser, Fritz

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For more than a generation after World War II, offi cial government doctrine and many Austrians insisted they had been victims of Nazi aggression in 1938 and, therefore, bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years this myth has been revised to include a more complex past, one with both Austrian perpetrators and victims.

Part one describes soldiers from Austria who fought in the German Wehrmacht, a history only recently unearthed. Richard Germann covers units and theaters Austrian fought in, while Th omas Grischany demonstrates how well they fought. Ela Hornung looks at case studies of denunciation of fellow soldiers, while Barbara Stelzl-Marx analyzes Austrian soldiers who were active in resistance at the end of the war. Stefan Karner summarizes POW treatment on the Eastern front. Part two deals with the increasingly diffi cult life on the Austrian homefront. Fritz Keller takes a look at how Vienna survived growing food shortages. Ingrid Bhler takes a rare look at life in small-town Austria. Andrea Strutz analyzes narratives of Jewish refugees forced to leave for the United States. Peter Ruggenthaler and Philipp Lesiak examine the use of slave laborers. And Brigitte Kepplinger summarizes the Nazi euthanasia program.

The third part deals with legacies of the war, particularly postwar restitution and memory issues. Based on new sources from Soviet archives, Nikita Petrov describes the Red Army liberation. Winfried Garscha analyzes postwar war crimes trials against Austrians. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Eva Blimlinger present a survey of postwar restitution of property. And Heidemarie Uhl deals with Austrian memories of the war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 375
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351503136
• Artikelnr.: 49260950

Autorenporträt

Fritz Plasser

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; World War II Studies and Austria; The Anschluss in the
Rearview Mirror 1938-2008: Historical Memories between Debate and
Transformation; I. Soldiers; Austrian Soldiers and Generals in World War
II; Mental Aspects of Austrian Wehrmacht Service; Denunciating during World
War II in the Military Milieu: A Biographical Case Study Based on Oral and
Written Sources; Major and the Soviets: The Military Resistance in Vienna
1945; In Stalin's Custody: The Soviet Camp System for Prisoners of War
during and after World War II; II. Social and Economic Life; Eintopf for
the Austrian Gourmet: How even the Spoiled Austrians Learned to Love German
Hotchpotch *; Alte Kämpfer and New Houses in Dornbirn: A Case Study of a
Small to Medium-sized Austrian City under the Nazi Regime *; III. War
Crimes/Crimes Against Humanity; Split Lives: Memories and Narratives of
Austrian Jewish Refugees; The Utilization of Slave Labor in the Danube and
Alpine Gaue *; The National Socialist Euthanasia Program in Austria: Aktion
T4 *; IV. The Aftermath: Occupation, Restitution, Memory; The Internal
Troops of the NKVD in the System of Soviet Organs of Repression in Austria
1945-1946 *; Austrians and the Holocaust: A Reception History from the
Perspective of Postwar Volksgerichtsprozesse; Restitution and Compensation
of Property in Austria 1945-2007; Review Essays; Austrian Histories; Book
Review; Michael Gehler and Ingrid Böhler, eds., Verschiedene europäische
Wege im Vergleich. Österreich und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945/49
bis zur Gegenwart. Festschrift für Rolf Steininger zum 65. Geburtstag
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