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Vienna's tourist trail of plunder (English)
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A third of the 900 stalls on Vienna's open-air Nasch market were Aryanised, along with half of the city's chemists, 74 cinemas, the Anker bakery chain, the bespoke tailors Knize, and the lingerie boutique Palmers. The list also includes no less than 70,000 flats and thousands of artworks. (English)
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Unser Wien - Our Vienna - even offers a "topography of robbery": more than 100 pages of district-by-district walking tours covering more than 500 properties pillaged from Jewish residents. The tours detail the names of both the dispossessed and the profiteers who hurriedly "Aryanised" them. (English)
"The success of many Austrians today is based on the money and property stolen over 60 years ago," said Stefan Templ, journalist and co-author of Unser Wien. "A large number of politicians, lawyers, judges, doctors and artists improved their living standards after 1938."Among them were the post-war president and lawyer Adolf Schärf and the conductor Karl Böhm, who purchased former Jewish homes at rock bottom prices.According to Templ and his co-author, historian Tina Walzer: "Through the plundering of their Jewish neighbours the Viennese were forerunners in setting an example for the entire Thousand Year Reich." (English)
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The 105-year old Ferris Wheel, one of Vienna's biggest tourist attractions and famous for its appearance in the Carol Reed film the Third Man, is a prominent example. Its owner, Eduard Steiner, was forced to pass the wheel to a consortium in 1938 before being deported to Auschwitz, where he died in 1944. (English)
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The hotels Bristol and Imperial, still among the city's grandest, were part-owned by Samuel Schallinger, who was forced to give up his shares. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt where he died. (English)
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The hotels Bristol and Imperial, still among the city's grandest, were part-owned by Samuel Schallinger, who was forced to give up his shares. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt where he died. (English)
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The hotels Bristol and Imperial, still among the city's grandest, were part-owned by Samuel Schallinger, who was forced to give up his shares. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt where he died. (English)
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Cafe Mozart, a favourite with opera singers and dancers, was Aryanised. Many other cafes, seen as Jewish institutions, were turned into car showrooms, a trend which continued until the 1960s. (English)
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Many of the dispossessed committed suicide. In the case of property developer Wilhelm Frankl, officials had him certified insane so that they could take over the Majolika Haus, a fin de siècle architectural treasure on many tourist agendas today. It now houses a bank. (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.Unser Wien - Our Vienna - even offers a "topography of robbery": more than 100 pages of district-by-district walking tours covering more than 500 properties pillaged from Jewish residents. The tours detail the names of both the dispossessed and the profiteers who hurriedly "Aryanised" them. (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.Unser Wien - Our Vienna - even offers a "topography of robbery": more than 100 pages of district-by-district walking tours covering more than 500 properties pillaged from Jewish residents. The tours detail the names of both the dispossessed and the profiteers who hurriedly "Aryanised" them. (English)