New Perspectives on Austrians and WWII PB

New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II

by Gunter Bischof, Fritz Plasser and Barbara Stelzl-Marx
Paperback
375 Pages

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.

Gerhard Weinberg places the role of Austrians within the larger story of World War II. While Oliver Rathkolb analyzes the postwar trajectory in the politics of memory of the Anschluss of 1938.