11 March 1938

Germany

invades Austria

12 March 1938

Hitler enters Austria

12 March 1938

Hitler greeted

with flowers

and Nazi flags

15 June 1938

All Jews with

previous convictions arrested

27 July 1938

Jewishstreet names

banned

5 October 1938

Jewish passports and ration

cardsto be

marked with a “ ”

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12 November 1938

Jews ordered to

pay for cost of

Kristallnacht

8 December 1938

Jews barredfrom

German schools

1933 - 1939

1,400 anti-Jewish laws

passed

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January 1938

200,000 Jews in Austria180,000 Jews in Vienna

August – October 1938

32,000 Jews leave

Vienna

13 February 1941

Deportation of

Viennese Jews

ordered

23 November 1941

1,000Jewish men deported

to Lithuania

All 1,000Shot upon

arrival

9 April – 5 June 1942

4,000Jews

deported to Izbica

None survived

1941 - 1942

15,000 deported

to Theresienst

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Lola Blau- Cabaret artist, actress

Fritz Kreisler- Violinist, composer

Max Reinhardt- Stage director

Arnold Schoenberg- Composer

Carl Zuckmayer- Playwright

Alexander Zemlinsky- Composer, conductor

Stefan Zweig- Author

Joseph Roth- Writer

Franz Werfel- Writer

Hermann Broch- Writer

Elias Canetti- Writer

Otto Preminger- Filmmaker

Lee Strasberg- Director, teacher

Billy Wilder- Filmmaker

Friedrich Hollaender- Song composer

The Jewish members of the

Comedian Harmonists

Prof. Erwin Schrödinger Scientist, Nobel prize-winner

Prof. Karl LandsteinerChemist, Nobel prize-winner

Georg Kreisler- Cabarettist, composer, writer

January 1938

180,000 Jews in Vienna

1945

2,000 remain in Vienna;

war stowaways, ‘protected’

mixed-marriage partners

1945

1,272 Jews returned to

Vienna from the camps

1945

70,000 Jewish

properties

confiscated

1949

Pension rights

for ex-Nazi civil

servants restored

1959

c. 10,000

Jews registere

d in Vienna

1946

50% of Austrians polled in Linz, Salzburg,

and Vienna thought “the Nazis had

gone too far with the Jews”…

… but, “that something had to be

done to place limits on them”

1947 - 1948

43% Salzburgers34% Viennese47% Linzers

believed …

1946

50% polled in Austria

were opposed to return of

Jews

1947 - 194825% Austrians

thought the Jewish

character responsible

for anti-Semitism

Joerg Haider lives on 38,000

acre estate, which its 1938 Jewish owners

were forced to sell

1986

Joerg Haider elected

leader ofThe

Austrian Freedom

Party

BBC Poll Jan 05

60% of Britons under 35

have never heard of

Auschwitz