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Unser Wien : "Arisierung" auf österreichisch (German)
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The Austrians had a good run, for many years, as the ''first victim'' of Adolf Hitler, who occupied his native Austria in March 1938. But two historians have now documented the extent to which the Austrians were among the first war profiteers, moving quickly to expropriate the property of Vienna's Jews.''In the pillaging of their Jewish neighbors, the Viennese played a leading role for the entire Thousand Year Reich,'' write Tina Walzer and Stephan Templ in their acerbic new book about the so-called Aryanization of Jewish property in Vienna, where some 200,000 Jews once lived.What distinguishes the book is less its history, which was broadly known, than its details: a long section, called ''The Topography of Robbery,'' lists businesses, addresses and former and current owners.The book provides a bizarre walking guide to one of Europe's great cities. The Bristol and Imperial Hotels, two of Vienna's proudest, were partly owned before the war by a Jew, Samuel Schallinger, who died in 1942 at the Theresienstadt camp near Prague. The Cafe Bräunerhof, known before 1938 as the Sans Souci, was among the many cafes that were Aryanized, as was the famous restaurant Zu Den Drei Husaren. (English)
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Enjoy the romance of the big wheel, order a bespoke suit for the opera at Knize, have a coffee in Cafe Mozart and a sandwich at an Anker bakery, followed by a film at the Burg-Kino before spending the night at the Hotel Bristol.The itinerary could be that of any visitor to the Austrian capital. For the Viennese, the names and places could not be more familiar. But as well as figuring prominently in tourist guides to Vienna, these names have something else, rather sinister, in common: they were once in the hands of Jewish owners before their confiscation under the Nazis.A new book details for the first time the extent to which Vienna's Jews were stripped of their property following the 1938 annexation of Austria, and the degree to which ordinary Viennese profited from the plunder. (English)
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The Austrians had a good run, for many years, as the ''first victim'' of Adolf Hitler, who occupied his native Austria in March 1938. But two historians have now documented the extent to which the Austrians were among the first war profiteers, moving quickly to expropriate the property of Vienna's Jews.''In the pillaging of their Jewish neighbors, the Viennese played a leading role for the entire Thousand Year Reich,'' write Tina Walzer and Stephan Templ in their acerbic new book about the so-called Aryanization of Jewish property in Vienna, where some 200,000 Jews once lived.What distinguishes the book is less its history, which was broadly known, than its details: a long section, called ''The Topography of Robbery,'' lists businesses, addresses and former and current owners.The book provides a bizarre walking guide to one of Europe's great cities. The Bristol and Imperial Hotels, two of Vienna's proudest, were partly owned before the war by a Jew, Samuel Schallinger, who died in 1942 at the Theresienstadt camp near Prague. The Cafe Bräunerhof, known before 1938 as the Sans Souci, was among the many cafes that were Aryanized, as was the famous restaurant Zu Den Drei Husaren. (English)
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Austrian-Jewish historian Stephan Templ is serving a one-year jail term for defrauding his country’s government in a restitution case, despite the discovery of new evidence that reportedly refutes the fraud allegations of which he was convicted.Templ, 55, is the author of Unser Wien [Our Vienna], a book detailing all the real estate in the Austrian capital which was confiscated from Jews in the days and months leading to the Holocaust and never returned to its owners. He has been a vocal and prominent critic of Austria’s Holocaust-era conduct. (English)
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Unser Wien. 'Arisierung' auf österreichisch
17 October 2020
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- enwiki Unser Wien (Our Vienna)
- frwiki Unser Wien