Eighty four years ago on March 12, 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In January 1933, Germany’s Jews were already under the grip of Nazism with the rise of the Nazi party, and just five years ...

"Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust. Almost 105 years old, he shared with ...

“Anschluss” (union) of Germany and Austria was officially proclaimed from the upper balcony of the Chancellery in Vienna. The Austrian people will vote on the union by plebiscite on April 10.

Chiang Wei-kuo was the son of China's generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, received military education in Bavaria, and even commanded a Panzer regiment as Germany annexed their southern neighbour. My videos ...

AUSTRIA:PRESIDENT HEINZ Fischer of Austria has said his country's annexation to the Third Reich, 70 years ago yesterday, sealed the country's fate as both Nazi victim and perpetrator. The march of ...

A vibrant city of poets, artists and thinkers in the early 1900s, it went down in a sea of swastikas after Hitler's triumphant return: Vienna after the Anschluss lost not only many of its people, but ...

The Nation watches in horror as Hitler takes his first step down "the road to world empire." Crowds cheer the Nazis as they arrive in Vienna, Austria. Photo via the German Federal Archive. By signing ...

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