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 ...

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 ...

More than 82 years after Adolf Hitler's troops annexed Austria in March 1938, construction of a wall of names to commemorate the lives of Jews murdered during the Shoah has finally begun. Why has it ...

With Austria in the news recently, I’m reminded of scenes from a favorite movie. Capt. Von Trapp sings “Edelweiss” in a melancholic farewell with his family before fleeing the country to escape being ...

A vibrant city of poets, artists and thinkers in the early 1900s, it went down in a sea of swastikas after Hitler's triumphant return: Vienna after the Anschluss lost not only many of its people, but ...

Among the listings for houses, stamps and musical instruments for sale in the summer of 1938, the Manchester Guardian carried a series of advertisements from Austrian parents seeking homes in Britain ...

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 ...