Austrian Democratic Union

The Austrian Democratic Union (German: Österreichische Demokratische Union) was a grouping formed by Austrian exiles in Britain in August 1941 during the Second World War. It was based at the Austrian Office or Austrian Centre and consisted of Social Democrats and Liberals - alongside the mainly Austrian monarchists of the Austrian League (signatories of the Austrian Society declaration) who made up the dominant group in the 30,000 strong exile community in wartime Britain. By 1944, the ADU had attracted around 300 members, primarily intellectuals, bankers, businessmen and lawyers.[1] The British government unofficially favoured the monarchists.

## See also

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* Austria portal
* Monarchy portal
* Socialism portal
* Liberalism portal
* United Kingdom portal

* Anschluss
* Moscow Declaration (including the "Declaration regarding Austria") of 30 October 1943.
* Austrian resistance

## References

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1. ^ Austrian Exodus: the creative achievements of refugees from ...; Edward Timms, Ritchie Robertson - 1995. "Social Democrats, the liberals within the Austrian Office formed the Austrian Democratic Union in August 1941, which by 1944 had attracted about 300 members, for the most part intellectuals, bankers, businessmen and lawyers."

## Further reading

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* Marietta Bearman. Out of Austria: The Austrian Centre in London in World War II. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. ISBN 9781441600073.

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Governments in exile during World War II

Belgium|

* Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot

Czechoslovakia|

* President: Edvard Beneš
Prime Minister: Jan Šrámek

France|

* Charles de Gaulle
* Henri Giraud
* French Committee of National Liberation (1943–1945)

Greece|

* King George II
Prime Minister: Emmanouil Tsouderos (1941–1944), Sofoklis Venizelos (1944), Georgios Papandreou (1944–1945)

Luxembourg|

* Grand Duchess Charlotte
Prime Minister: Pierre Dupong

Netherlands|

* Queen Wilhelmina
Prime Minister: Dirk Jan de Geer (1940), Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1940–1945)

Norway|

* King Haakon VII
Prime Minister: Johan Nygaardsvold

Poland|

* President: Władysław Raczkiewicz
Prime Minister: Władysław Sikorski (1939–1943), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1943–1944), Tomasz Arciszewski (1944–1945)

Yugoslavia|

* King Peter II
Prime Minister: Dušan Simović (1941–1942), Slobodan Jovanović (1942–1943), Miloš Trifunović (1943), Božidar Purić (1943–1944), Ivan Šubašić (1944–1945)

Unrecognised or non-autonomous bodies|

* Austria
* Denmark
* Philippines
* Thailand

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