Under Observation
Austria since 1918
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2018
582 pages
978-3-205-20272-1 (ISBN)
Description
Every time that something happened in Austria after 1918, the country was under observation: as German-Austria, the First Republic, the Corporative State, the Alpine and Danubian Gaue of the Greater German Reich, the Second Republic - right up to the present day. People looked, heard and generally did not keep silent, and this has not changed. As though Austria were still the same testing ground for the end of the world that Karl Kraus described it as. A gripping and varied overview of Austrian history over the last 100 years.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Foreword
- 1 The Experiment
- The Dissolution Order
- The German Delegates
- 2 The Impeded Revolution
- A State Emerges
- One Emperor Too Many
- Attempted Coups
- 3 Saint-Germain: The End of Illusions
- The Parts and the Whole
- Time of Uncertainty
- The Moment of Truth
- The Balance Sheet
- The Fight for Remembrance
- 4 The End of Commonality
- One Constitution for Eight Federal States
- Restorers at Work
- The League of Nations Loan
- 5 Marching Season
- Paramilitarism
- The Latent Civil War
- From Linz to Schattendorf
- 6 Civil War Scenarios
- The Day of Wiener Neustadt
- Calm Before the Storm
- Escalation of Violence
- Customs Union
- 'South-Eastern Europe is in Flames'
- All Against All
- 84,000 Rifles and 980 Machine Guns
- 7 The Trauma
- The End of Parliamentary Democracy
- Nation versus Fatherland
- The Rebellion of the Oppressed
- 8 Corporative State without Corporations
- The 'May Constitution'
- The Murder of the Chancellor
- A Better Germany?
- Going for Broke
- Berchtesgaden
- 9 The Failure
- The Consultative Referendum
- The Invasion
- Obituary for a State
- 10 The Nazi Revolution
- The Plebiscite
- The Country of Austria
- The Other Side of the Coin
- Ethnic Community
- Conscripted Soldiers
- The Camp Complex
- The Loss of All Restraint
- 11 The War of Attrition
- The Princip Plaque
- The 'Home Theatre of War'
- Partisans
- The Shadow Army
- War of Annihilation
- 12 Back to the Future
- The Moscow Declaration
- The Human Factor
- Child Soldiers
- Austria was in their Camp
- Code Name 'Valkyrie'
- 13 Rubble
- Incitement to Murder
- 14 The Waltz of Freedom
- The Battle for Vienna
- Renner, Who Else?
- A Look to the Future
- The Parts and the Whole
- 15 Stern Men
- Hardship Reigns
- Re-Austrification
- The Key Territory
- Rumours of Partition
- The 'Fourth Party'
- The General Strike
- New Approach
- 16 A Glorious Spring Day
- Gong for the Final Round
- An End to Jubilation
- The Challenges of the Plains
- 17 Between the Blocks
- A Myth Emerges
- The End of the Fifties
- The 'unease in the party state'
- The Decade of the Malcontents
- The Agony
- 18 The New Style of Dispassion
- Governing Alone
- The Others and Us
- 'Power and Impotence in Austria'
- South Tyrol
- The Czech Crisis
- Taking Stock of the Politics of Dispassion
- 19 The Counter Narrative
- Let Kreisky and his team work
- 'I am of the opinion'
- Carinthia
- Jews, Palestinians and Terror
- Polarka
- The UN in Vienna
- Oppositional Formulas
- 'King Kreisky'
- From 'crown prince' to 'entailed estate farmer'
- The 'old timer'
- 20 The 'Fall from Grace'
- The Hainburg Floodplains
- Kurt Waldheim and the Watchlist
- 21 The Implosion in the East
- The Hope for Eternal Peace
- A Decidedly Patient Wait
- In Unison
- We are Europe
- An Intermezzo
- The Family Silver
- 22 Under Observation
- The 'Sanctions'
- The Thursday Demonstrations
- The Troublemaker
- 23 The Relapse
- The Unloved
- 'Pummerin rather than muezzin'
- 24 'It's enough'
- Clearance Sale
- Betrayal of Red-White-Red?
- Mass Migration
- All things new .
- 25 Afterword
- Heldenplatz
- The Square of Earthly Strife
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
