Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.
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This Dissertation examines the early, pre-Marxist years of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from a wider perspective of European intellectual and cultural history. The movement originated in the Habsburg province of eastern Galicia around 1911 and was founded in Vienna in 1916. D…
After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss in 1938, an immediate outpouring of antisemitic violence and legislation horrified the Jews of Vienna. Between 1938 and 1940, Viennese Jews applied to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna or IKG) fo…
In 1519, after the death of Emperor Maximilian, the citizens of Vienna revolted against the emperor’s regency government and seized control of the city. This uprising soon expanded to the aristocratic estates, who joined forces with the urban rebels to challenge the authority of…
For centuries, Vienna has always had a reputation of being a musical city. Even when national and regional styles of composition developed in various European countries, one cannot doubt that Vienna remained an important musical city. However, the history of music in Vienna is b…
Migrating artists and artwork achieved the successful fashioning of the Belvedere, Prince Eugene of Savoy's (1663–1736) magnificent summer palace in Vienna designed by the leading architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668–1745) and constructed between 1697 and 1723. A manifes…
