The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler

The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler /

"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-Inquart and ma...

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Main Author: Weyr, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1938-1945.
Since 1918
Geschichte 1938-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Austria > Vienna.
National socialism > Austria > Vienna.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Autriche > Vienne.
Nazisme > Autriche > Vienne.
National socialism.
Nationalsozialismus
Vienna (Austria) > History > 1918-
Vienne (Autriche) > Histoire > 1918-
Vienna (Austria) > 1918- > History.
Austria > Vienna.
Wien
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938
  • The state nobody wanted: from St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938
  • Bürckel takes charge: from Plebiscite to peace at Easter: March 15-April 25, 1938
  • To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938
  • The lost city: Vienna's golden autumn: 1867-1938
  • From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939
  • Decline and fall: from Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940
  • Vienna's second chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 1943
  • Prelude to disaster: Schirach loses control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944
  • The last year: destruction from the sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945
  • The battle for Vienna: death and transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945
  • The new shape of the pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004.

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