The Holocaust in Austria

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Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May 1944

Responsibility

|  Nazi Germany

People

* Major perpetrators
* Adolf Hitler
* Heinrich Himmler
* Joseph Goebbels
* Heinrich Müller
* Reinhard Heydrich
* Adolf Eichmann
* Odilo Globocnik
* Theodor Eicke
* Richard Glücks
* Ernst Kaltenbrunner
* Rudolf Höss
* Christian Wirth

Organizations

* Nazi Party
* Gestapo
* Schutzstaffel (SS)
* Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV)
* Einsatzgruppen
* Sturmabteilung (SA)
* Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT)
* Wehrmacht
* Trawniki men

Collaborators during World War II

Nazi ideologues

Early policies

* Racial policy
* Nazi eugenics
* Nuremberg Laws
* Haavara Agreement
* Madagascar Plan
* Forced euthanasia

Victims

* Jews
* Romani people (Gypsies)
* Poles
* Soviet POWs
* Slavs in Eastern Europe
* Homosexuals
* People with disabilities

Ghettos

* Będzin
* Białystok
* Budapest
* Kaunas
* Kraków
* Łódź
* Lublin
* Lwów
* Minsk
* Riga
* Sosnowiec
* Warsaw
* Vilnius

* * *

Jewish ghettos in
German-occupied Poland

* List of selected ghettos

Camps

|  Nazi extermination camps

* Auschwitz II-Birkenau
* Belzec
* Chełmno
* Jasenovac
* Majdanek
* Sajmište
* Sobibor
* Treblinka

Nazi concentration camps

* Auschwitz I
* Bergen-Belsen
* Bogdanovka
* Buchenwald
* Dachau
* Mittelbau-Dora
* Gonars (Italy)
* Gross-Rosen
* Gusen
* Herzogenbusch
* Janowska
* Kaiserwald
* Mauthausen
* Neuengamme
* Rab
* Ravensbrück
* Sachsenhausen
* Salaspils
* Stutthof
* Transnistria (Romania)
* Theresienstadt
* Uckermark
* Warsaw

Transit and collection camps

Belgium

* Breendonk
* Mechelen

France

* Gurs
* Drancy

Italy

* Bolzano

Netherlands

* Amersfoort
* Westerbork

Slovakia

* Sereď

Divisions

* SS-Totenkopfverbände
* Concentration Camps Inspectorate
* Politische Abteilung
* Sanitätswesen

Extermination methods

* Gas van
* Gas chamber
* Extermination through labour
* Einsatzgruppen
* Human medical experimentation

Atrocities

|  Pogroms

* Kristallnacht
* Bucharest
* Dorohoi
* Iași
* Izieu
* Szczuczyn
* Jedwabne
* Plungė
* Radziłów pogrom
* Kaunas
* Lviv (Lvov)
* Marseille
* Tykocin
* Vel' d'Hiv
* Wąsosz

Einsatzgruppen

* Babi Yar
* Bydgoszcz
* Częstochowa
* Kamianets-Podilskyi
* Ninth Fort
* Odessa
* Piaśnica
* Ponary
* Rumbula
* Erntefest

"Final Solution"

* Wannsee Conference
* Mogilev Conference
* Operation "Reinhard"
* Holocaust trains
* Extermination camps

End of World War II

* Wola massacre
* Death marches

Resistance

* Auschwitz Protocols
* Vrba–Wetzler report
* Czesław Mordowicz
* Jerzy Tabeau
* Rudolf Vrba
* Alfréd Wetzler
* Bricha
* Jewish partisans
* Sonderkommando photographs
* Witold Pilecki
* Resistance movement in Auschwitz
* Military Organization Union
* Witold's Report

Ghetto uprisings

* Warsaw
* Białystok
* Łachwa
* Częstochowa

International response

Joint Declaration by Members of
the United Nations

* Auschwitz bombing debate
* MS St. Louis
* Nuremberg trials
* Denazification

Aftermath

* Bricha
* Displaced persons
* Survivors
* Central Committee of the Liberated Jews

Reparations Agreement between
Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany

Lists

* Holocaust survivors

Deportations of French Jews
to death camps

* Survivors of Sobibor
* Timeline of Treblinka extermination camp
* Victims of Nazism
* Rescue of Jews
* Memorials and museums

Resources

* Bibliography
* Bibliography of Nazi Germany

The Destruction of the
European Jews

* Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

Functionalism versus
intentionalism

Remembrance

* Days of remembrance
* Memorials and museums
* Righteous Among the Nations

* v
* t
* e

Jews were systematically persecuted, plundered, and killed by German and Austrian Nazis in the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945.[1] Pervasive persecution of Jews was immediate after the German annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. An estimated 70,000 Jews (nearly 40%) were murdered and 125,000 fled Austria as refugees.

## Jews in Austria before 1938

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Further information: History of the Jews in Austria

In the 1930s, Jews flourished in Austria, with leading figures in the sciences, the arts, business, industry, and trades of all kinds.[2] At the time of Anschluss with Nazi Germany in 1938, the Jewish population of Austria was approximately 192,000,[3] mostly in Vienna.

Austria had a powerful legacy of antisemitism[4] which found its full expression in Adolf Hitler. In 1895, the Austrian anti-Semite Karl Luger won the majority of the seats in the Vienna municipality and was appointed mayor of the Austrian capital. In 1922, intending to mock vicious antisemitism in Vienna where Jewish university students were routinely attacked, the Austrian Hugo Bettauer wrote a futuristic novel entitled, The City Without Jews, which turned out to be tragically prescient.[5]

## Anschluss

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Main article: Anschluss

From 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the annexation of Austria became one of Germany's foreign policy goals.[6] Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich on March 13, 1938,[7] the day after German troops entered Austrian territory greeted by cheering Austrians with Nazi salutes and Nazi flags.[8] A law was published, declaring Austria "one of the lands of the German Empire" under the name "Ostmark". On April 10, an Anschluss referendum was held in Austria. According to official Reich data, with 99.08% of the population voting, the Anschluss was approved by 99.75%.[9]

## Antisemitic violence and persecution

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Persecution of Jews was immediate, and of stunning violence, after Anschluss.[10][11] German racial laws were enacted in Austria, under which Jews were disenfranchised. According to these laws, 220,000 people were now considered Jews in Austria, larger than the previously accepted figure of 182,000. A forced reorganization of Jewish communities was carried out, led by Adolf Eichmann. All Jewish organizations and newspapers were closed and their leaders and management imprisoned. Jews were no longer allowed on public transport. Many regular Austrians joined the Nazis in terrorizing Jews. In acts of public humiliation, Jews were forced to wash sidewalks and public toilets, at times with toothbrushes or their bare hands.[12] In one instance, a number of Jews were rounded up on the Sabbath and forced to eat grass at the Prater, a popular Viennese amusement park.[13] Jewish faculty members of Medical University of Vienna were dismissed.[14]

During Kristallnacht in November 1938, anti-Jewish pogroms took place throughout Germany and Austria. Synagogues were desecrated and destroyed,[15] houses and shops belonging to Jews were looted.[16]

On August 8, 1938, the first Austrian concentration camp is established at Mauthausen.[17]

## Plunder of Jewish property

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Jewish property was seized by Austrians as part of the Holocaust. There was a massive transfer of homes, businesses, real estate,[18] financial assets and artworks[19] from Jews to non-Jews.[20][21] A well-organised machinery of plunder, storage, and resale, involving the Gestapo, the Vugesta, the Dorotheum auction house, various transporters, and museums in Vienna moved artworks and other property seized from Jews into the hands of non-Jews.[22]

The book Unser Wien (Our Vienna) by Tina Walzer and Stephan Templ details how hundreds of Jewish businesses in Vienna were seized by the Nazis and never returned after the war.[23]

## Forced emigration

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In May 1938, the Nazis allowed the Jewish community in Vienna to resume activities, with one intended goal - to organize and accelerate mass emigration of Jews from Austria. The Palestinian Bureau of the World Zionist Organization was permitted to aid in Jewish emigration. In August 1938, the Central Office for Jewish Emigration was established under the leadership of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

Among the emigrants were such celebrities as Sigmund Freud and Imre Kalman.

After the arrest of all Jewish leaders in March 1938, Eichmann personally appointed Levengertz, Josef Löwenherz head of the Jewish community. On August 22, 1938, Eichmann wrote to Berlin that his office was providing documents for emigration to 200 Jews daily.

Fleeing persecution, 62,958 Jews emigrated in 1938, and another 54,451 in 1939. The so-called Kindertransport started with the transport of the first 600 Viennese Jewish children after a meeting of Dutch organizer Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer with Eichmann who gave her permission on Dec. 3rd, 1938. By the outbreak of war in September 1939 however, according to some estimates, as many as 126,445 Jews had departed Austria. Between 58,000 and 66,260 Jews remained in the country. Emigration from the Reich was ultimately banned in October 1941.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the following data were presented: 147,000 Jews emigrated from Austria from March 15, 1938, to October 31, 1941, 43,700 remained.

## Isolation, deportation, and extermination

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Deportation of Jews from Vienna, 1942

In October 1939, the deportation of Austrian Jews to Poland began, part of a larger plan to ultimately gather and restrict all of Europe's Jewish populace in one territory. 1,584 people were deported to the Lublin region.[24]

The deportation of Jews to death camps began in February 1941. After the Wannsee Conference, this process was accelerated. The Viennese community was officially liquidated on November 1, 1942, at which time approximately 7,000 Jews remained in Austria. The deportations continued until March 1945.[25][26]

As a result of the Holocaust, according to various sources, between 60,000 and 65,000 Austrian Jews lost their lives - almost the entire number of those who did not leave before the war. Fewer than 800 Jews (mostly spouses of Austrian citizens) survived until the liberation of Vienna by Soviet troops on April 13, 1945. By 1950, the Jewish community in Austria numbered 13,396 people (of whom 12,450 lived in Vienna).[27]

## Protests and resistance

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As of January 1, 2016, there were 106 Austrians recognized by the Yad Vashem Institute of Holocaust and Heroism as the righteous of the world, for aiding and saving Jews during the Holocaust at the risk of their own lives.[28]

## Holocaust remembrance

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Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Bruck an der Leitha

Up until the 1980s, Austrian society adhered to the "First Victim" narrative, which portrayed Austria as a victim, not an enthusiastic supporter of, Nazi Germany and therefore side-stepping responsibility for the crimes of the Third Reich.[29][30][31][32][33]

Although the Nazi genocide was well documented in the Archives of the Austrian Resistance during the 1960s, actual critical study of the Holocaust did not enter the mainstream of Austrian historiography until the 1980s. The impetus for this was the presidential elections in Austria in 1986, initiated by the scandal regarding the Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim.[34][35] In 1988, the Historical Commission was established to investigate the plundering of property during the Nazi period, as well as restitution and compensation after 1945.[36]

Austria is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

While many cities in Austria have constructed memorials to the victims of the Holocaust (see Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Vienna), a lack of specificity, for example the actual names of victims not being included, has also been criticised until recently. On November 9, 2021 (i.e., on the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht), the Austrian government inaugurated a "Shoah Wall of Names Memorial" at a prominent location (Ostarrichi Park) in central Vienna. This memorial monument is engraved with the names of 64,440 Austrian Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. It is known that an additional ~1,000 people were murdered, but their names have unfortunately been lost. This memorial monument consists of 160 granite slabs arranged in an oval pattern (each slab is 1 m wide and 2 m high).[37]"

Certain victims' monuments have been repeatedly vandalized.[38][39]

A study in 2019 found that most Austrian adults were largely ignorant about the Holocaust.[40][41][42]

## Holocaust denial

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Main article: Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial in Austria is a criminal offense.[43][44] Holocaust deniers are prosecuted under section 3 of the 1947 Constitutional Prohibition Act (Verbotsgesetz 1947), as amended in 1992. The law applies to individuals who publicly deny, belittle, approve, or justify the crimes of National Socialism. Violators are punished with imprisonment for a term of one to ten years (in especially dangerous cases up to twenty years)

This law has been repeatedly applied in practice. In particular, on January 14, 2008, Wolfgang Frolich was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, and on April 27, 2009, the writer Gerd Honzik was sentenced to 5 years in prison.[45] Judge Stephen Apostol called Honzik "one of the ideological leaders" of European neo-Nazis. The most famous case of prosecution in Austria for Holocaust denial was the arrest and trial of British writer of historical works David Irving in 2006.[46] Irving was sentenced to 3 years in prison, though after 13 months served, the court replaced the remaining term with a suspended sentence and deported him from the country.

## Austrian perpetrators of the Holocaust

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Adolf Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, one week before the end of war in Europe. The Austrian Nazi and, briefly, Chancellor of Austria, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, was condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials and executed in 1946. However, many Austrian Nazis escaped prosecution altogether. Franz Josef Huber, the Gestapo chief responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews, worked for German intelligence after the war and was shielded from prosecution.[47]

## Obstacles to restitution

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Restitution for the Holocaust has been controversial and faced difficulties in Austria.[48] For many years, Austria's official "first victim" historical stance removed the legal obligation to make reparations for Nazi crimes.[49][50][51] Austria's record on restitution has been problematic.[52][53][54][55][56]

The arrest and imprisonment of the author Stephen Templ, who had inventoried Nazi looted property in Vienna, was strongly criticized.[57][58] In 2021, in response to criticism about Austria's restitution policies, The City of Vienna threatened to sue an American descendant of the Rothschild family for libel.[59]

## See also

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* Antisemitism in contemporary Austria
* Anschluss
* Arthur Seyss-Inquart
* Aryanization
* Austria within Nazi Germany
* Commission for Provenance Research
* Deportation
* Gusen concentration camp
* History of the Jews in Austria
* Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
* List of Austrian Jews
* Therensienstadt
* Unser Wien (Our Vienna)
* Woman in Gold (film)

## Notes

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1. ^ "Austria". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
2. ^ "Vienna". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "In 1938, some 170,000 Jews lived in the city, as well as approximately 80,000 persons of mixed Jewish-Christian background. Including converts from Judaism, the Viennese Jewish population may have been as high as 200,000, more than 10 percent of the city's inhabitants. Vienna was an important center of Jewish culture and education. The city was also a center of Zionist thought and Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, had studied at the University of Vienna. Many Viennese Jews were well-integrated into urban society and culture. Jews made up significant percentages of the city's doctors, lawyers, businessmen, bankers, artists, and journalists."
3. ^ "Austria". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
4. ^ Murphy, Francois (2020-06-17). "Hitler's birthplace shows that confronting dark past can take decades". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
5. ^ "Austria's Jewish Question". The New York Times. 1981-05-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "Vienna, in Hugo Bettauer's day, was also a hotbed of antisemitism, as it had been for about 40 years. Jewish students were periodically beaten up at the University of Vienna while the police, barred from academic soil, watched with amusement as nationalistic fraternity members jumped isolated Jews and kicked them down the two central ramps of the pseudo-Renaissance building. Day after day, pan-Germanic groups and their press indulged in tirades about Vienna's Verjudung, the penetration by Jews."
6. ^ "German Foreign Policy, 1933–1945". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
7. ^ "Anschluss – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools". Retrieved 2021-04-08.
8. ^ Murphy, Francois (2018-03-12). "Austria remembers Anschluss, with far right now in power". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "Hitler sent troops into Austria, the land of his birth, on March 12, 1938, in pursuit of his dream of a "Greater Germany". They were greeted by cheering crowds who waved swastika flags and made the Nazi salute."
9. ^ "Propagandistische Vorbereitung der Volksabstimmung (10. April 1938)". 2007-04-04. Archived from the original on 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
10. ^ Hochstadt, Steve (2004), Hochstadt, Steve (ed.), "The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938–1939", Sources of the Holocaust, Documents in History, London: Macmillan Education UK, pp. 56–84, doi:10.1007/978-0-230-21440-8_5, ISBN 978-0-230-21440-8, retrieved 2021-04-09
11. ^ "Photograph of Jews Cleaning Streets in Vienna". perspectives.ushmm.org. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "In the days and weeks following the Anschluss, there was a rapid rise in anti-Jewish violence across Austria, particularly in Vienna, where 90 percent of Austria's Jewish population lived.2"
12. ^ "Jews Forced to Clean Vienna Streets". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
13. ^ "Timeline of Jewish Persecution in the Holocaust". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "April 23 Jews in Vienna, Austria, are rounded up on the Sabbath by Nazis and forced to eat grass at the Prater, a local amusement park. Many of the victimized Jews suffer heart attacks and a few die....May. Following the Anschluss, Austrians force Jewish men and women to scrub the streets with small brushes and with the women's fur coats."
14. ^ Ernst, E. (1995). "A leading medical school seriously damaged: Vienna 1938". Annals of Internal Medicine. 122 (10): 789–792\. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-122-10-199505150-00009. PMID 7717602. S2CID 820239.
15. ^ "Map: Synagogues Destroyed during Kristallnacht — Media — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". ushmm.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
16. ^ "Timeline: History of Jews in Vienna". Jewish News From Austria. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
17. ^ "Timeline of Jewish Persecution in the Holocaust". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
18. ^ ktv_wwalter. "Real property, tenancy rights, personal property - expropriation during the Nazi era". wien.gv.at. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
19. ^ "Recovering Stolen Art from the Holocaust". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
20. ^ "Vienna's tourist trail of plunder". the Guardian. 2002-05-21. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
21. ^ Conference, Claims. "History of the Austrian Jewish Community". Claims Conference. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "On April 27, 1938 all Jews with total assets (in real estate, personal possessions, bank or savings accounts, securities, insurance policies, pension payments, etc.) worth more than ATS 7,500 ($2,000) were ordered to declare them by the end of June 1938 (Vermögenserklärungen). These assets of 47,768 valid declarations totaled over $800 million at that time. The Nazi authorities wanted to loot these assets, which would contribute to their war preparations. Private Nazis looted these assets as contributions to their own pockets. The night of November 8–9, 1938 there were violent riots, wild arrests, and the burning of synagogues and Jewish prayer houses (known as Kristallnacht – or "the night of broken glass"). Some Jews were sent to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen. Others were sent to firms, construction sites, etc. as forced laborers. By December 3, 1938, there was an "order regarding the use of Jewish assets." By February 1939, the head of a major Nazi-controlled Austrian bank consortium, Hans Rafelsberger, noted that 77.6% of the aryanization of Jewish shops and businesses (of a total of more than 36,000) that were to be kept functioning (about 4,000) had been achieved. The majority had gone to Nazi Party members."
22. ^ "The Vugesta - The Gestapo Office for the Disposal of the Property of Jewish Emigrants - Art Database". kunstdatenbank.at. Archived from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
23. ^ "Books and Publications: Unser Wien: "Arisierung" auf Österreichisch (Our Vienna: "Aryanisation" the Austrian Way)". lootedart.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
24. ^ "Austria" (PDF). Yad Vashem. "In October 1939, 1,584 Austrian Jews were deported to the Lublin district of Poland, as part of a grand plan to concentrate all of Europe's Jews in one area of the Generalgouvernement (see also Nisko and Lublin Plan). In February and March 1941 some 5,000 Austrian Jews were deported to Kielce in Poland; during 1942 they were exterminated in Belzec and Chelmno. In October 1941 the Nazis began deporting the Jews of Austria en masse. Thousands of Jews were sent to Lodz and ghettos in the Baltic region. After the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, during which steps were taken to better coordinate the murder of Europe's Jews, deportations from Austria were sped up. Thousands were transported to Riga, Minsk, and Lublin. During the second half of 1942 nearly 14,000 Jews were sent to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. The Jewish community of Vienna was liquidated in November 1942, leaving only 7,000 Jews in Austria - most of whom were married to non-Jews. All those strong enough to work were placed in forced labor. Small-scale deportations continued into 1943; by the end of 1944 only some 6,000 Jews remained in Vienna."
25. ^ ktv_wwalter. "Expulsion, Deportation and Murder - History of the Jews in Vienna". wien.gv.at. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
26. ^ "The Deportation of Austrian and German Jews". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
27. ^ Редакция. "Австрия". Электронная еврейская энциклопедия ОРТ (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-04-09.
28. ^ "Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem by 1 January 2020 AUSTRIA" (PDF).
29. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Austria's Nazi past: Belated recognition for murdered Jews | DW | 08.08.2020". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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31. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Austria debates its role in the Nazi era | DW | 11.03.2013". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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35. ^ "U.S. bans Austrian president for suspected WWII war crimes". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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38. ^ "Austria breaks ground on Holocaust memorial in Vienna". AP NEWS. 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
39. ^ JTA and TOI staff. "Photos of Holocaust survivors on exhibit in Vienna vandalized for 3rd time". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
40. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Austrians lack crucial Holocaust awareness, study finds | DW | 02.05.2019". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
41. ^ "Austrians' Holocaust knowledge has major gaps: study". POLITICO. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
42. ^ Schwartz, Yaakov. "Most Austrians don't know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey finds". timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
43. ^ "David Irving arrested in Austria". the Guardian. 2005-11-17. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
44. ^ "Holocaust Denial Laws and Other Legislation Criminalizing Promotion of Nazism | www.yadvashem.org". holocaust-denial-laws.html. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
45. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Holocaust denier on trial after 15 years on the run | DW | 20.04.2009". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
46. ^ "Holocaust denier jailed | Guardian Weekly | guardian.co.uk". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
47. ^ "Huber case: Nazi police chief in Vienna spied for West Germany". BBC News. 2021-04-06. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "A Nazi SS general responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews to death camps worked for West German intelligence after World War Two, shielded from prosecution.The protection given to Franz Josef Huber was revealed by the German spy service BND, in archives seen by German public broadcaster ARD. Huber ran the Gestapo in Vienna, the Nazis' second-biggest secret police HQ after Berlin. The US military knew about his crimes. Huber took charge of the Gestapo in Vienna immediately after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938 and held that post until late 1944."
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49. ^ Conference, Claims. "History of the Austrian Jewish Community". Claims Conference. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2021-04-09. "A large obstacle preventing legal justice, from the point of view of Jewish and other persecuted victims, was that the State of Austria relied on the 1943 Moscow Declaration by the Allies, which claimed the State of Austria as the first victim of Nazi aggression – and thus without any legal obligation to make reparations for Nazi crimes. Expediently overlooked if not ignored at the time, however, was that the Declaration also stated that Austrians, as a people, were co-responsible. In other words, the Moscow Declaration also gave Austria the status of "enemy state" – and thus the need for the 10-year "Allied" occupation."
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52. ^ Cohan, William D. (2015-10-22). "This Man Was Jailed for Seeking Restitution of Property Stolen by the Nazis". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
53. ^ "Austria Criticized for Restituting Klimt Painting to Wrong Family". artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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## Literature

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* Михман Д. Катастрофа европейского еврейства. — 1. — Тель-Авив: Открытый университет Израиля, 2001. — Т. 1–2. — ISBN 965-06-0233-X.
* Михман Д. Катастрофа европейского еврейства. — 1. — Тель-Авив: Открытый университет Израиля, 2001. — Т. 3–4. — ISBN 965-06-0233-X.
* Doron Rabinovici. Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938–1945. — Polity, 2011. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-0745646824.
* Gardiner, Muriel. Code Name «Mary»: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.
* Paucker, Arnold. Standhalten und Widerstehen: Der Widerstand deutscher und österreichischer Juden gegen die nationalsozialistische Diktatur. Essen: Klartext, 1995.
* Österreichisches Gallup-Institut. Attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust in Austria: a public-opinion survey conducted for the American Jewish Committee. — American Jewish Committee, 2001. — 32 p.

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* The Holocaust in Austria
* "Энциклопедия Катастрофы - Австрия". Яд ва-Шем. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
* Австрия — статья из Электронной еврейской энциклопедии
* "Austrian Victims of the Holocaust". Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) -. Retrieved 2014-06-01.

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The Holocaust in Germany

Part of
The Holocaust

By region|

* Austria
* Bohemia and Moravia
* East Upper Silesia
* Luxembourg
* Sudetenland

Preceding events|

* Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
* Anti-Jewish legislation
* Aryanization
* Judenvermögensabgabe
* Kristallnacht
* in Leipzig
* Mass arrests
* Emigration

Deportation|

* Fabrikaktion

Camps|

* Bergen-Belsen
* Buchenwald
* Dachau
* Flossenbürg
* Hinzert
* Mittelbau-Dora
* Neuengamme
* Ravensbrück
* Sachsenhausen

Rescue|

* Rosenstrasse protest
* Operation 7
* Jews in hiding in Berlin
* Bund: Gemeinschaft für ein sozialistisches Leben

Aftermath|

* German collective guilt
* Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Related articles|

* History of the Jews in Germany
* Nazi Germany

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