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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

VIENNA, March 12 (Reuters) - With a party founded by ex-Nazis back in government, Austria marked the 80th anniversary of its annexation by Adolf Hitler's Germany on Monday with greater public ...

Vienna is rapidly becoming a city without Jews, as only some 43,000 Jews remain since Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich in 1938, Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the Joint ...