No one, of course, doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the anti-semitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that 'it must be said that anti-Semitism was a permanent feature o…
No one doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that 'It must be said that antisemitism was a permanent feature of Viennese lif…
No one, of course, doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to Jewishness has obscured the extent to which 'ordinary' attitudes about Jewish …
Bogen er baseret på højt klassificerede rapporter fra Nazi Sikkerhedstjenesten opbevaret i Wien, Øvre og Nedre Østrig samt Tyrol. På basis af dette arkivmateriale har forfatteren forsøgt at rekonstruere de almindelige østrigske borgeres politiske holdninger til dagenes hændelser…
"Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations. This was no coincidence. Popular anti-Semitism was so powerful in Austria that once deportat…
