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Resistance in Austria During WWII

Austrian scholar Brigitte Bailer, the academic director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, will give a lecture on the resistance movements in Austria during the Second World War and thereafter.

Putting up resistance to a totalitarian regime that suppresses people by means of terror, requires a high degree of courage and willingness to risk all, even one’s life – a sacrifice few are willing to make. Organizing resistance in Austria in 1938 faced considerable difficulties. As the resistance organizations operated for the most part separately from their German counterparts, it was a genuinely Austrian resistance. It was structured along political and ideological lines.

Austrian refugees also participated in the resistance against the Nazi-regime: as members of resistance groups in territories occupied by Hitler-Germany as well as part of the Allied Armies. The proportion of Jewish resistance fighters in exile was relatively high. For instance, following Germany’s occupation of France and Belgium, numerous Austrian refugees joined the local resistance. Thousands of Austrians fought in the armies of Great Britain, France, USA, the Soviet Union, and the Foreign Legion.

The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was founded in 1963 by ex-resistance fighters and historians. It performs research on resistance, persecution, and right-wing extremism today. Three permanent exhibitions inform about the crimes of National Socialism.











When: Thu., Sep. 27, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Where: Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 E. 52nd St.
212-319-5300
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Austrian scholar Brigitte Bailer, the academic director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, will give a lecture on the resistance movements in Austria during the Second World War and thereafter.

Putting up resistance to a totalitarian regime that suppresses people by means of terror, requires a high degree of courage and willingness to risk all, even one’s life – a sacrifice few are willing to make. Organizing resistance in Austria in 1938 faced considerable difficulties. As the resistance organizations operated for the most part separately from their German counterparts, it was a genuinely Austrian resistance. It was structured along political and ideological lines.

Austrian refugees also participated in the resistance against the Nazi-regime: as members of resistance groups in territories occupied by Hitler-Germany as well as part of the Allied Armies. The proportion of Jewish resistance fighters in exile was relatively high. For instance, following Germany’s occupation of France and Belgium, numerous Austrian refugees joined the local resistance. Thousands of Austrians fought in the armies of Great Britain, France, USA, the Soviet Union, and the Foreign Legion.

The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was founded in 1963 by ex-resistance fighters and historians. It performs research on resistance, persecution, and right-wing extremism today. Three permanent exhibitions inform about the crimes of National Socialism.

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