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The Austrian resistance was launched in response to the rise of the fascists across Europe and, more specifically, to the Anschluss in 1938 and resulting occupation of Austria by Germany. An estimated 100,000 people [ 1 ] were reported to have participated in this resistance with thousands subsequently imprisoned or executed for their anti ...
The ELAS grew to become the largest resistance movement against the fascists in Greece. The Luxembourgish general strike of 1942 was a passive resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht. A national general strike, originating mainly in Wiltz ...
As a result, he joined the Austrian resistance and became one of the central figures of the O5 movement in Switzerland. [2] In 1944, he became head of the "Austria Student Association" in Geneva. Thereafter, Treu repeatedly crossed the border to what was then the Ostmark (Austria) to establish contact with Austrian resistance fighters. Sworn to ...
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II.Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her ...
Joseph Maria Casimir Konrad Michael Benedictus Maurus Placidus, Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (30 September 1910 - 7 October 1963) was an Austro-German philologist, dissident and later US Army Lieutenant attached to the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and to the Austrian 'O5' resistance movement against the Nazi Regime.
Needle of Honor of the Austrian Resistance Movement Diploma of Honor of the League of the United Nations Annual Award of Merit of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, Chicago, Illinois, 1978 Diploma of Honor of the Organization of Jewish War Veterans in USA Honorary Member of the French Institut de Recherches de Psychotherapie
The forum was founded in 1945 as "International College Weeks" by Otto Molden, who had been active in the Austrian resistance movement, and Simon Moser. [1] Nowadays, more than 4,000 people from over 70 countries accept the invitation to participate in the European Forum Alpbach each year. Participation is open to all interested parties.
The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from 1938 until 1945, exile, Nazi crimes, right-wing extremism after 1945, and victims' reparations. Its main seat is located in the former town hall of Vienna on Wipplingerstraße.