Primary Sources of 20th century Austrian History

• Overview of the ranks of the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, German police and SA and the U.S. Army and Royal Air Force and the Austrian Bundesheer for comparison
• Documentation of the History of South Tirol
• Austria and European Integration 1947-1995
• State and Society before World War I
• Austria during World War I 1914-1918
• November 12, 1918 to Mar.13, 1938: The Road to the "Anschluß"
• February 12, 1934: Social Democracy and Civil War
• "Christian Corporative State". Austria 1934-1938
• The failed Coup of the National Socialist Party in Austria, July 25, 1934
• Anti-Semitism from Schönerer to Hitler
• Resistance, Persecution and Forced Labour 1934-1945
• The Home Front: From "Ostmark" to the "Alpen- und Donaugaue" 1939-1945
• The Expulsion of Reason: The Case of Moritz Schlick
• The Moscow Declaration of 1943 and Allied Postwar Planning
• The Holocaust and the Rejection of Guilt. From Genocide to a Collective Victim Status
• Allied Planning and Policies towards Austria 1940-1954
• Austria under Allied Occupation 1945-1955
• The Way to the Austrian State Treaty
• The Coalition Governement 1945-1966
• The "Kreisky-Era" 1970-1983
• The Waldheim Affair: A Case Study in dealing with Austria's Nazi-Past during the late 1980ies
• Austrian Economy. Basic Developments

Except from the chapters "Overview of the ranks", "Documentation of the History of South Tyrol" and "Austria and European Integration" the collection comes from: Rolf Steininger/Michael Gehler (Hrsg.), Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Studienbuch in zwei Bänden. (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher. Grundlagen des Studiums), Wien - Köln - Weimar 1997.

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