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When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new identity based on being a "victim" of Nazi Germany. Cold war Austria, however, envisioned herself as a neutral "island of the blessed" between and... Read more
Introduction; 1,000 Years of Austria and Austrian Identity: Founding Myths; National Identity or Regional Identity: Austria Versus Tyrol/Salzburg; The Politics of Memory: Austria’s Perception of the Second World War and the National Socialist Period; Taboos and Self-Deception: The Second Republic’s Reconstruction of History; They Were All Victims: The Selective Treatment of the Consequences of National Socialism 1; The Present State of the Waldheim Affair: Second Thoughts and New Directions; The Silent Revolution: Austria’s Accession to the European Union; Public, Prívate, and Popular: The United States Remembers World War II; Proposals by the Advisory Commission on the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial *; FORUM Toward a History of Austrian Intelligence Studies; Early CIA Reports on Austria, 1947-1949; Documentation; The Situation in Austria, February 1947; The Current Situation in Austria, April 1948*; Possible Developments in Soviet Policy Toward Austria, February 1949; The Current Situation in Austria, August 1949; Research Note: My Files at the Czech Ministry of the Interior Archives, Prague, May 1995; Research Note: German and Austrian Losses in World War II; Founding Myths and Compartmentalized Past: New Literature on the Construction, Hibernation, and Deconstruction of World War II Memory in Postwar Austria; Austria-Hungary and World War I; Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Rudolph Je?ábek, Leopold Kammerhofer, EDS., Protokolle des Kabinettsrates der Provisorischen Regierung Karl Renner 1945, vol. 1: 29. April bis 10. Juli 1945 (Horn: Berger 1995).; Klaus Eisterer, “Die Schweiz als Partner:” Zum eigenständigen Außenhandel der Bundesländer Vorarlberg und Tirol mit der Eidgenossenschaft 1945-1947, in Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Föderalismusforschung, vol. 64 (Vienna: Braumüller, 1995).; Rolf Steininger with Ingrid Böhler, eds., Der Umgang mit dem Holocaust: Europa-USA-Israel (Vienna: Böhlau, 1994).; Franz OLAY, Die Erinnerungen (Wien-München-Berlin: Amalthea, 1995).; Heinz Fischer, Die Kreisky-Jahre: 1967-1983, 3rd ed. (Vienna: Locker Verlag, 1994).; Wolfgang C. Müller, Fritz Passer, Peter A. Ulram, eds., Wählerverhalten und Parteien wettbewerb. Analysen zur Nationalratswahl 1994 (Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1995).; Survey of Austrian Politics: 1995; List of Authors
Biography
Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka
