Commemoration and Reflection

For Austria, 2008 was a year of remembrance and reflection. What led to the founding of our Republic in 1918? What were the reasons for the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938? How was our nation rebuilt after the anguish and the cruelties of World War II and the liberation in 1945? In 2008 Austria also remembered the year of 1968 and a generation of young people opposing war and incrusted structures. wien.at published many articles dealing with these events, our motto being: Those who do not know their past cannot understand the present. For, we are our history. And we are our future.

• The Life and Work of Alfred Adler
• 21 August 1968 - spring turns into a harsh winter

World War I

• 28 June 1914: Fateful day for generations
• November 1916: The emperor is laid to rest
• 3 November 1918: The Austro-Hungarian Army lays down its arms

First Republic

• 1919: first elections for a new state
• Suffrage "indiscriminate of sex"
• A young nation adopts its constitution
• "If you build palaces for children you tear down prison walls"
• 30 January 1927 - prologue of a fateful day
• 4 March 1933 - The beginning of the end of parliamentarian democracy in Austria
• February 1934 - Austrians take up arms
• 1934 to 1938: Ständestaat in the Name of "God, the Almighty"
• Austria's political parties and their history
• Arts and culture in the interwar period
• Municipal politics: "Red Vienna" - a success story

National Socialism and World War II

• 12 March 1938: The onset of great suffering
• 1939 to 1945 - Never to be forgotten
• 1939 to 1945: A War of Madness
• Mauthausen Concentration Camp