The collective memory of the Second World War also concerns the resistance and its protagonists. For the first time, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters has now been in the focus of research as a non-state player. New insights have been brought to light about the transformation of the notion of resistance and the formerly […] Continue reading “Changing memories of resistance”
Moving pictures and music are an ideal and/or lethal combination if you want to win over the minds and hearts of people. In Nazi propaganda these tools were orchestrated almost to perfection. But how exactly did film music support the Nazi ideology and what was the contribution of “Wien-Film”, the Vienna film company which was […] Continue reading “Wien-Film as an ideological music lab”
How did children and adolescents from intermarriages experience the Nazi regime? Historian Michaela Raggam-Blesch has interviewed contemporary witnesses and opened up new sources. Her research highlights the daily dilemmas and experience of persecution of those affected during the Second World War. Continue reading “Race ideology: “absurd and contradictory””
Up until now, knowledge of the Nazis’ persecution policy in Austria has lacked an essential perspective: that of the Jewish population itself. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, hitherto unpublished sources have now been systematically explored and set in an overall Austrian context. Continue reading “Historical knowledge supplemented by Jewish perspective”
With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the historian Margit Reiter investigated the social environment of former proponents of National Socialism in Austria. Her investigations provide new insights into political and ideological continuities in post-war Austria. Continue reading “The milieu of the “Ehemaligen” in Austria”
Between 1942 and 1945, Associated Press cooperated closely with the Nazi Regime – with the blessing of the highest echelons in Washington. This is one of the facts discovered by the German historian Norman Domeier, currently doing research under a Lise-Meitner Fellowship at the University of Vienna. Continue reading “Photos for the Führer”
In an extensive research effort the art historian Imma Walderdorff investigated the Nazi past of Klessheim Palace, unearthing hitherto unknown facts and making an important contribution to provenance research. Continue reading “The Führer’s lavish guest house”
The history of academic psychology after the “Anschluss”, the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, and its role as a discipline used in National Socialist policies is being examined systematically for the first time in a research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “Austrian Psychology during the National Socialist Era”
The contemporary historian Bertrand Perz on redesigning the Mauthausen Memorial, surprising insights from studies of the concentration camp’s staff there and on why science has become a luxury. Continue reading ““In history, violence is the rule””