This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a ...

The Historical Commission In 1998 the Austrian Historikerkommission (Historical Commission) was set up to examine Austria's role in the expropriation of Jewish assets during the period of Nazi ...

Austria was greatly diminished after World War One, no longer at the centre of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Under these circumstances, a joining with fellow German speakers in an economic and ...