HAT is Austria and who is she? . . . She is a miserable spittoon.’ Thus contemptuously did Mussolini, almost exactly ten years ago, refer to the tiny nation to his north which, periodically since the ...

When the Nazis marched into Austrian on March 12, 1938, hundreds of thousands of Austrians turned out to welcome them. But after the war, the country preferred to see itself as just another of ...

The black and white photo was taken in Vienna 70 years ago this week: it shows a crowd of ordinary Austrians and a handful of officials sporting swastika armbands. All of them are grinning or smirking ...

More than 82 years after Adolf Hitler's troops annexed Austria in March 1938, construction of a wall of names to commemorate the lives of Jews murdered during the Shoah has finally begun. Why has it ...

A new report on stolen property during the Nazi era says Austria's record on restitution has been 'half-hearted'. British historian Robert Knight served on the commission that produced the report, and ...

"There is no great chance of a European war developing directly from the Austrian crisis," William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, predicted last night as he told an audience of 200 in ...

With Austria in the news recently, I’m reminded of scenes from a favorite movie. Capt. Von Trapp sings “Edelweiss” in a melancholic farewell with his family before fleeing the country to escape being ...