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As a little girl in 1940, Gita Kaufman escaped Vienna with her family at the last possible moment. Austria had been under German control for two years, following the bloodless “Anschluss,” or union, ...

August 1938: Young German officers watching a group of elderly Jewish men scrubbing the streets of Vienna. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ...

With antisemitism rearing its ugly head around the world, it is particularly gratifying and encouraging to see an enriching Holocaust-related offering on display at the Austrian parliament in Vienna.

SALZBURG, Austria (AFP) — “Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels,” says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust. Almost 105 ...

Austria today (12 March) marks the 80th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany, with the country's President Alexander Van der Bellen urging young people not to be "taken in" by neo-fascist and ...

French politics were in turmoil in March 1938. Two days before Germany invaded Austria the entire French government had resigned. France was not in a position to oppose the invasion. In March 1938, ...

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The Nazi-Austrian Interior Minister, Seyss-Inquart, was ordered by Hitler to ask for German help in restoring order in Austria. a propanganda campaign encouraged people to vote for Anschluss Austrian ...

Last night, in Vienna — Hitler’s city — before Shabbat, I was assaulted by a mob of Islamist thugs at an anti-Israel “Free Palestine” rally. I was shoved, kicked, and manhandled — just for wearing my ...