New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II

ISBN-13: 9781412808835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str.

Ga1/4nter Bischof; Fritz Plasser; Oliver Saasa

Opis

For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim 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 view of the past-one with both Austrian perpetrators and victims. This volume richly illustrates this view. Gerhard Weinberg places the role of Austrians within the larger story of World War II. Oliver Rathkolb analyzes the postwar trajectory in the politics of memory of the Anschluss of 1938.

Spis treści

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 (StudienVerlag: Innsbruck, 2007); Peter Ruggenthaler, ed, Stalin’s großer Bluff: Die Geschichte der Stalin-Note in Dokumenten der sowjetischen Führung (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007); Klaus Hödl, Wiener Juden—jüdische Wiener: Identität, Gedächtnis und Performanz im 19. Jahrhundert , Schriften des Centrums für Jüdische Studien 9 (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2006); Klaus Zeyringer, Ehrenrunden im Salon. Kultur – Literatur – Betrieb. Essay (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2007); Charles W. Ingrao and Franz A.J. Szabo, eds., The Germans and the East (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008); Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott, eds., The New Eastern Europe (Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations / JHU-SAIS, 2007); Annual Review

O autorze

Fritz Plasser