Der Flughafen Wien wird seit 1954 als ziviler Flughafen betrieben. Die Passagierzahlen stiegen von 2006 bis 2011 von knapp 17 auf über 21 Millionen jährlich. Um die Sicherheit der wachsenden Zahl von Passagieren und die Logistik für den Frachtverkehr auf den neuesten Stand zu br…
'From Kabbalah to Class Struggle' is an intellectual profile of Meir Wiener, an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.
Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they s…
Wiens historie under den 2. verdenskrig
"Here is an account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna, a once vibrant city that was the cradle of modernism, into a third-rate Prussian provincial town. In this narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inq…
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 grippi…
