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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 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.
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.
Michael Hughes notes that in regards to Germany, "nationalism was a minority movement, deeply divided and with only a marginal impact on German political life". [10] German newspapers were almost exclusively concerned with local affairs or their respective state governments, and the individual German states cultivated loyalty towards themselves.
Selma Steinmetz was born in Vienna, the eldest of her parents' three recorded daughters.Heinrich Chaim Steinmetz (1882-1941/42), her father, worked as a retailer. He had come to the city originally from a village called Tyczyn near Łódź in what was known before 1915 as "Congress (Russian) Poland".
Heinrich Maier was born on 16 February 1908 at Großweikersdorf.His father, also named Heinrich Maier, was an official on the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways.His mother Katharina Maier, born Giugno (apparently from the Italian-speaking part of Austria-Hungary), [5] was the daughter of a policeman.
When he heard that his enemies were crossing the Piave, the Austrian commander turned back to give battle, intending to slow Eugène's pursuit of his army. Eugène ordered his vanguard across the river early in the morning. It soon ran into vigorous Austrian resistance, but the arrival of French cavalry stabilized the situation by mid-morning.
Engelbert Dollfuss [a] (alternatively Dollfuß; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian fascist politician who served as Chancellor and Dictator of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government.