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1 online resource (385 pages)
ISBN:
9780199842261
Inhalt:
When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland. Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik; proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today, Weyr concludes, only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless. This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler, those who resisted, and the many who merely, in the local phrase, "ran after the rabbit." The author draws on his own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, and those of his parents and friends, plus extensive documentary research, to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Map of Vienna -- 1 Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938 -- 2 The State Nobody Wanted: From St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938 -- 3 Bürckel Takes Charge: From Plebiscite to Peace at Easter: March 15-April 25,1938 -- 4 To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938 -- 5 The Lost City: Vienna's Golden Autumn: 1867-1938 -- 6 From Kristallnacht to the Outbreak of War: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939 -- 7 Decline and Fall: From Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940 -- 8 Vienna's Second Chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 1943 -- 9 Prelude to Disaster: Schirach Loses Control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944 -- 10 The Last Year: Destruction from the Sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945 -- 11 The Battle for Vienna: Death and Transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945 -- 12 The New Shape of the Pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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ISBN 9780195146790
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195146790
Sprache:
Englisch
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