Anschluss and Austria's guilty conscience Seventy years after the Nazis' annexation of Austria, questions remain over whether its citizens were victims or accomplices ...

As a little girl in 1940, Gita Kaufman escaped Vienna with her family at the last possible moment. Austria had been under German control for two years, following the bloodless “Anschluss,” or ...

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 self-examination than usual.

MOST Americans who have heard of the great dispute about the Anschluss of German Austria with the German mother-country have ranged themselves on the side of those who favor this union. They have ...

“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.

The exhibition goes by the self-explanatory and emotive title of Torn from Life – The Fate of the Austrian Jews after the Anschluss in 1938 and was curated by Yad Vashem Museum Division ...

Julian Borger traced his father's escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir ...

On the eve of the Anschluss – the 1938 unification of Austria with Germany via annexation by Adolf Hitler – some 170,000 Jews plus 80,000 people of mixed Jewish-Christian background lived in ...