Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance

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Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (2010)

The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) is a foundation jointly supported by the Republic of Austria , the City of Vienna and the Documentation Archive Association. The association and foundation conduct information work through book publications and on the Internet and collect, archive and scientifically evaluate sources on the following topics: resistance , persecution and exile during the time of National Socialism , Nazi crimes, Nazi and post-war justice , right-wing extremism in Austria and Germany after 1945 , Restitution and reparation for Nazi injustice . In addition to documentation, library operations and archiving, there is regular advice and support for journalists and students in research and academic work. From December 2004 to April 2014, the archive was under the academic direction of the historian Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and has been directed by Gerhard Baumgartner since May 2014 .

The archive is located in the Old Town Hall at Wipplingerstraße 8 in Vienna.

history

The documentation archive was opened on February 11, 1963 a. a. by Ludwig Jedlicka , August Maria Knoll , Paul Schärf , Ludwig Soswinski , Jonny Moser and Herbert Steiner with financial support from the concentration camp association / VdA, more precisely the Federal Association of Austrian Resistance Fighters and Victims of Fascism , a non-partisan organization founded in 1948 and the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB ) and the BAWAG bank . According to the DÖW, the relatively late founding - 18 years after the end of the war - is due to the fact that the domestic political climate in Austria in the 1940s and 1950s was not influenced by resistance fighters, persecuted people, displaced persons and anti-fascists, but rather by those involved in the war, former Nazi supporters and the NSDAP -Members was coined. The main political forces took the interests and attitudes of this war generation into consideration, they were not subjected to any intellectual and political denazification , and not a few of their members persisted in old ideas and thought patterns. These large population groups were skeptical to hostile to the resistance; Resistance fighters were seen as "oath breakers", as "cowards" and "traitors", as "criminals" and "murderers" (or often openly referred to); the Austrian resistance was questioned, trivialized or denied.

The columnist Staberl criticized the DÖW in 1971 in the Kronen Zeitung as a “documentation archive of an Austrian resistance that never really existed” . The resistance fighters were recognized at best in Sunday speeches by politicians, or they were used as an argument for foreign policy purposes, for example to prove Austria's “own contribution to liberation” (in the sense of the Moscow Declaration of 1943) in the state treaty negotiations with the Allies.

The DÖW and the resistance research it emanated did not arise from the victim thesis advocated by the official Austria (Austria as the first victim of Hitler's policy of aggression ), but from the efforts of the resistance fighters and the persecuted to present themselves and assert themselves against ignorance and repression. It was not until 1983 that a foundation was set up alongside the private association DÖW, supported by the Republic of Austria ( Ministry of Science ) and the City of Vienna. Resistance fighters and victims of National Socialism are still involved in the DÖW to this day, including as contemporary witnesses and on tours for young people.

Resistance and persecution

In the initial phase of the DÖW, under the compulsion to provide evidence of the resistance to hateful challenges, the first thing to do was to create a serious archival and scientific basis on which resistance research could build. In 1970 work began on the Resistance and Persecution series in the Austrian federal states , in which a total of 13 volumes (Vienna, Burgenland, Upper Austria, Tyrol, Lower Austria, Salzburg) have now been published. Later editions of these documents were prepared by a oral-history project completed, has been collected from the more than 2,600 cartridges of 830 interviews and four volumes (about the labor movement , the Catholic-conservative camp, Jews and Carinthian Slovenes are published).

Holocaust, exile

In addition to political resistance, the DÖW has also taken into account all forms of Nazi persecution in its work from the start and, in particular, has delivered the first scientific papers on the subject of persecution of Jews and " Gypsies " in Austria. It was not until the 1980s that the mentally and physically handicapped Nazi victims were included in the DÖW research work. The realization that the Jews are by far the largest group of victims and that the Holocaust as an industrially organized mass murder is a singular crime was taken into account in particular with the implementation of the large-scale project “Name registration of Austrian Holocaust victims” initiated by the Israeli memorial site Yad Vashem carried.

After all, researching the fate of the more than 130,000 people displaced from Austria in 1938 was one of the DÖW's remit from the start. In the series Austrians in Exile , volumes on France, Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, the USA, the Soviet Union and Mexico have been published since 1984; Work is in progress on an Austria volume of the Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Emigration after 1933.

In 1987 Yad Vashem initiated a project to record the names of Austrian Holocaust victims. Between 1992 and 2001, over 62,000 Austrian Holocaust victims out of more than 65,000 were identified.

Perpetrator research

In the wake of the controversial historical debates triggered by the “ Waldheim Affair ” in 1986, the DÖW was confronted for the first time with criticism from the anti-fascist side. The DÖW and the Austrian resistance were presented as alibi actions, as instruments of image cultivation of Austria abroad; Austria does not need a documentation archive of the resistance, but one of complicity or National Socialism . In these critical voices of younger anti-fascists and historians directed against the official victim theory, the undoubtedly existing deficits and omissions in the research of the entire Austrian contemporary history were accused of the DÖW, which as a small institute with limited tasks cannot deal with the entire history of National Socialism in Austria .

Research into the behavior of Austrians, the share of Austrians in National Socialism and so-called perpetrator research cannot be managed by the DÖW, but approaches have been taken (e.g. brochure about the former SS-Sturmbannführer and convicted war criminal Walter Reder ) and with the Project financed by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research on the Viennese People's Court Proceedings (against "war criminals") has developed an important source of information . A publication on Austrian Nazi criminals is in preparation.

Right-wing extremism

In the second half of the 1970s, the DÖW also began to grapple with current right-wing extremism in Austria, not least because organizations and publications vilified the resistance, played down or denied the crimes of the Nazi regime, the war guilt of the German Reich at the time denied National Socialism and thus produced a completely one-sided view of history distorted in favor of National Socialism. In 1979, in cooperation with employees of Austrian university institutes, the extensive work "Right-wing extremism in Austria after 1945" was published for the first time, which had five editions by 1981 and became a standard work.

In 1993 the DÖW published a completely restructured “Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism”, which focused on the presentation and analysis of organized right-wing extremism. The work dealt particularly intensively with the FPÖ under the leadership of Jörg Haider . Haider's legal steps against the cover of the book on which a portrait of him was published, but also the interest aroused by right-wing extremist terrorism (cf. letter bomb attacks (1993–1997) by Franz Fuchs ) made the book a bestseller among scientific publications , of which several editions with over 20,000 copies appeared. The DÖW's preoccupation with current right-wing extremism, in particular the involvement of the FPÖ in the field of investigation, has become more involved in political conflicts than before. This party, in particular, has had violent polemics and attacks on the DÖW since the late 1980s. For example, in 1991 no fewer than seven parliamentary questions about alleged “communist activities” of the DÖW were put to members of the government.

The DÖW has contradicted this several times and stated that the anti-fascism it represents is based on pluralistic democracy and human rights . With this self-image, representatives of the DÖW exclude sympathy for dictatorial regimes of any political orientation as well as an approval of terrorism. Nevertheless, in November 2018, an expert in the process of allegedly Nazi-inspired songbooks was dismissed by the Higher Regional Court of Vienna due to his professional activity for the DÖW and the "appearance of his bias" .

The definition of right-wing extremism used in the DÖW's academic debate is based on the work of the Klagenfurt University Professor of History Willibald I. Holzer. The distinction between the term right-wing extremism and National Socialism , neo-Nazism , neo-fascism and right-wing radicalism is emphasized . Right-wing extremism is therefore characterized, among other things, by invoking a “principle of nature / naturalness”, whereby what is considered “natural” is removed from any criticism or questioning. Conversely, everything that does not correspond to this “biological” ideology is defamed as “unnatural”. At the center of this “natural” order is the “ people ” and the “ national community ”, which are contrasted with modern industrial society as a patriarchal-hierarchical idyll . The importance of the individual, who is assigned the appropriate place in this order, results from his obligations towards the entirety of the “national community”. In this system, the state has to demonstrate strength both internally and externally. It receives its legitimacy on the basis of " ethnic " viewpoints, people and leadership form an idealized unit. If someone disturbs this harmony, it is regarded as "unnatural", which results in the ideological opposition to the pluralism of parliamentary democracies as well as to social democracy , liberalism , communism , emancipation efforts by disadvantaged groups and trade union movements .

Anything outside of one's own “national community”, that is, the “foreign”, is contrasted with one's own sense of we and must be kept away from the community. From this ethnocentrism emerges the propagation of ethnopluralism , according to which every “national community” should inhabit its own territory and an amalgamation is perceived as a threat (cf. “ Umvolkung ”, “ Überfremdung ”). Closely related to these biological concepts is the exclusion of groups that are instrumentalized as scapegoats (e.g. foreigners, linguistic or religious minorities, politicians from other parties). They serve for relief and for internal integration by diverting socially and economically justified fears to the "others". Instead of rational analyzes, conspiracy theories are used to explain the negative consequences of social change.

Holzer also mentions the "nationalizing view of history" as an essential element of right-wing extremist ideology. From German nationalism it follows that the German people are not only a value to be defended, but that the Germans are one of the best, if not the best, of all peoples. From this perspective, the crimes allegedly committed in the name of the German people in the past are difficult to admit. The violent crimes in the time of National Socialism are played down and denied, while the aspects considered positive are emphasized (motorway construction, child benefits, employment policy, etc.). History itself becomes the object of "revisionism" (as the self-designation; cf. historical revisionism ), in which one of the central points is denial of the Holocaust . Other aspects include the glorification of the “noble” German compatriot .

Revisionism

The DÖW has also been dealing with historical revisionism since the 1990s , as teachers and students were noticeably insecure. After a smaller brochure about the Austrian gas chamber denier Emil Lachout , the publication “Amoklauf gegen die Reality” was published in 1991 in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. It deals with numerous argumentation models from revisionists to chemical reports and the manipulation and forgery techniques of Fred A. Leuchter , the neo-Nazi Robert Faurisson , the Holocaust denier David Irving and others.

In 1995, a completely revised version, expanded to include German references, was published under the title: "Truth and 'Auschwitz Lie'". In connection with the neo-Nazi historical propaganda in particular, the DÖW has repeatedly urged the application of the relevant Austrian laws and thus the criminal prosecution of those who re-operated the Nazis and called for existing laws to be tightened. These efforts, also known to the Holocaust survivor and publicly known as the “Nazi hunter”, led Simon Wiesenthal to an amendment to the Nazi Prohibition Act in 1992 , by which any denial, trivialization, justification or glorification of the Nazi genocide is now a punishable offense. Leading Austrian neo-Nazis such as Gottfried Küssel and Hans Jörg Schimanek jun. have since been sentenced to long prison terms (eleven and eight years in prison).

Archives and Library

The establishment of a library and its expansion into a specialist library as well as the expansion and professional maintenance of the archive holdings, in particular with various collections, was carried out primarily by Herbert Exenberger , who worked as a librarian for the DÖW from 1970 until his retirement in 2003 . Exenberger was involved in several research projects and publications of the DÖW and also published himself on contemporary historical topics. In the course of the above research projects, the archive and library holdings of the DÖW have grown considerably; the collections include:

  • Archive: approx. 320 running meters, of which approx. 104 running meters were recorded by computer;
  • Special collections on Austrians in the Spanish Civil War and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp ;
  • Photo collection: around 10,600 numbers with around 42,000 photos;
  • Library: around 38,000 titles, 350 current journals;
  • Newspaper clippings archive;
    • Austria collection of English, US and Canadian publications;
  • Collection of leaflets, brochures, and newspapers from the underground 1934–1945: approx. 10,000 copies;
  • Collection of right-wing extremism (magazines, publications, newspaper clippings, etc.);
  • Poster collection: approx. 3,500 pieces - contains the Austria part of the Rhese collection believed to be lost ;
  • also collections of interview tapes, microfilms and microfilms as well as museum objects.

Education and information

The DÖW sees a further field of activity in education and information work, especially for young people and schoolchildren. In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture as well as many schools and teachers, activities such as the creation of teaching materials, interviews with contemporary witnesses, events, student competitions and exhibitions are carried out. Private sponsors such as Joseph and Mary Buttinger (New York) and Ernest Goldblum (Florida) made it possible to promote scientific and educational projects.

The founders of the DÖW understood the documentation of the Austrian resistance from the beginning as a common task of all democratic forces in Austria. The board of trustees, board of directors and employees are recruited from those political and ideological groups that participated in the resistance and were victims of persecution. The common basic attitude is that everything must be done to combat Nazi and racist currents. According to the DÖW, cooperation is practiced that is unaffected by the changes and controversies in Austrian domestic politics.

The then Austrian Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger expressed his appreciation in his speech to the DÖW in 1986:

"I therefore use this General Assembly to express my thanks on behalf of the Republic of Austria to all of you who carry the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance through your personal commitment, through your confession and through your work, and to publicly state that the documentation archive is a real state-supporting." and the function to preserve peace and democracy in our republic. "

Scientific director

Content focus

Resistance and persecution, exile , Nazi crimes, in particular the Holocaust and Nazi medical crimes , NS - and post-war justice , right-wing extremism after 1945 , restitution and " reparations " after 1945. There is also, among others, a collaboration with the association "Memorial Austria", which endeavored to come to terms with the fate of the Austrian victims of Stalin.

Main areas of activity

Collection, archiving and scientific evaluation of thematically relevant sources. Archives and library operations with advisory and support activities for students, journalists, etc. The focus is also on education and information work, especially for young people and schoolchildren, but also in the field of adult education (preparation of teaching materials, interviews with contemporary witnesses, exhibitions, guided tours, etc.).

Projects

The DÖW initiates and supervises many different projects with the following focuses:

Resistance and persecution

  • Record of names of victims of political persecution 1938–1945
  • Contemporary witness project at Mauthausen concentration camp : Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project
  • Commemoration and reminders in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Burgenland
  • Resistance and persecution in Styria
  • On the Nazification of the criminal justice system in Austria 1938–1945
  • High treason , treason , degradation of military strength - political Nazi criminal justice in Austria and Germany
  • In the sights of the Gestapo and NKVD . Parachute Agents of the USSR in World War II (completed 2002)
  • Victim of the terror of the Nazi movement in Austria 1933–1938
  • Spain Archives: Austrians for Spain's Freedom 1936–1939

holocaust

  • Name registration of the Austrian Holocaust victims in a retrievable database (2001 provisionally completed), ("Final report", 1997)
  • Memorial book of Austrian Jews in Theresienstadt

Nazi medical crimes

  • Institutional psychiatry and mass murder, the extermination of patients from Viennese psychiatric institutions as part of " Action T4 "
  • Medicine, “people” and “race”. Health and Welfare Policy in Vienna 1938 to 1945
  • The war against the “inferior”: On the history of Nazi medicine in Vienna
  • Eugenics , Prevention and Public Health. Transformations of the Vienna Public Health Service 1930–1960 (completed in 2004)
  • Record of Spiegelgrund victims (completed in 2002)
  • Development of the scientific basis for Nazi euthanasia in Hartheim 1940–1945 (completed in 2001)

exile

  • Biographical manual of the Austrian victims of Stalinism (until 1945)
  • Austrians in exile. The La Plata states Argentina , Uruguay , Paraguay 1934–1945 (completed in 2004)
  • Austrians in exile. Mexico 1938–1947 (completed in 2002)

Publications

The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance has brought out a number of publications on the following topics:

  • Right-wing extremism and "revisionism"
  • Resistance and persecution 1934–1945
  • exile
  • holocaust
  • Post war justice
  • Catalogs
  • Yearbooks and other topics.

Further DÖW publications in detail:

  • Christine Schindler (Red.): Focus: mediation work with young people and adults . Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Yearbook 2010. Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-901142-56-7 .
  • Rudolf Agstner, Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Michaela Follner; Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.): Austria's top diplomats between Kaiser and Kreisky. Biographical handbook of the diplomats of the higher foreign service 1918 to 1959 . Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902575-23-4 .
  • Martin Niklas: "... the most beautiful city in the world". Austrian Jews in Theresienstadt . Series of publications by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance on the History of Nazi Violent Crimes, Volume 7. Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-901142-55-0 . (Partly at the same time: Martin Niklas: Austrian Jews in Theresienstadt . Diploma thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2007, OBV .)
  • Christine Schindler (Red.): Focus: Armed Resistance - Resistance in the Military . Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, yearbook 2009. Literaturverlag, Vienna (among others) 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50010-6 .
  • Andreas Peham (Red.) Among others: Focus: Anti-Semitism . Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, yearbook 2008. Literaturverlag, Vienna (among others) 2008, ISBN 978-3-7000-0802-6 , ISBN 978-3-8258-1181-5 .
  • Christine Schindler (Red.): Preserve - Research - Communicate. The documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance . Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901142-54-3 .
  • Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (Ed.): "Punished with death". Historical and legal aspects of the death penalty in Austria in the 20th century and the struggle for its worldwide abolition. 1st edition. Central Austrian Research Center for Post-War Justice, Vienna 2008, OBV .
  • Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (Red.): Catalog for the permanent exhibition . Braintrust - Publishing House for Further Education, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901116-25-7 .
  • Resistance to Nazi rule at the I. Chemical Institute of the University of Vienna. Memorial event, Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4 p.m. in lecture hall II of the Chemical Institutes, University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 42, exhibition of historical documents from April 4 in lecture hall II . 2005, OBV .
  • Series of publications of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance on Resistance, Nazi Persecution and Post-War Aspects . January 2004 -, appears irregularly. Lit-Verlag, Vienna, OBV .
  • Christa Mehany-Mitterrutzner (Red.): 40 Years of Documentation Archives of the Austrian Resistance 1963–2003 . 2003, ISBN 3-901142-50-9 .
  • Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (Ed.): No "accounting". Nazi crimes, justice and society in Europe after 1945 . Academic Publishing House, Leipzig / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-901142-37-1 , ISBN 3-931982-06-8 .
  • Series of publications from the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance on the history of Nazi violent crimes . Recorded March 1998 -, appears irregularly, OBV .
  • Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (ed.): The network of hatred - racist, right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet. 1st edition. Deuticke, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-216-30329-2 .
  • Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, Wolfgang Neugebauer: ... remained true to her convictions. Right-wing extremists, "revisionists" and anti-Semites in Austria . 1996, ISBN 3-901142-29-0 .
  • Strategies against right-wing extremism. Symposium on November 26, 1993 . Augustin, Innsbruck 1994, OBV .
  • Letters from prison. The Elfriede Hartmann cash register collection of the DÖW. Special exhibition, March 4 to April 30, 1992 . 1992, OBV .
  • Ernst Degasperi: Salt of the Earth - Light of the World. Passion of the Sister M. Restituta (Exhibition: Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), October 30 to December 17, 1992 inclusive), cycle . 1992, OBV .
  • Elisabeth Klamper: Archives of the Holocaust . 1991, ISBN 0-8240-5578-0 .
  • Paul Grosz: Justice and National Socialist Revival. Minutes of the conference of the same name on May 15, 1990 in Vienna . 1991, ISBN 3-901142-03-7 .
  • Franz Hiesel, Hubert Pfoch: In the flow of time. Hubert Pfoch, description of an Ottakringer on his 70th birthday - using diaries and documents, after personal conversations and information . 1990, OBV .
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Austrians and the Second World War . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-215-07350-1 .
  • Siegwald Ganglmair : Vienna 1938. March 11th to June 30th, 1988, City Hall, Volkshalle . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-07022-7 .
  • Mary Steinhauser (Ed.): Totenbuch Theresienstadt - so that you will not be forgotten . Extended edition. Junius, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900370-91-5 .
  • Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (ed.): For Spain's freedom. Austrians on the side of the Spanish Republic 1936–1939. A documentation . Austrians in exile. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-215-06424-3 , ISBN 3-215-06425-1 .
  • Ludwig Reichhold (ed.): Battle for Austria. The Fatherland Front and its resistance to the Anschluss 1933–1938. A documentation. 2nd Edition. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-05466-3 .
  • Hermann Dworczak, Peter Eppel: The Austrian fight for freedom. 25 sheets with reprinted photos, documents, leaflets and newspapers about the persecution and resistance of Austrians 1934–1945 . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-215-05715-8 .
  • Helmut Konrad (ed.), Herbert Steiner: Workers' Movement - Fascism - National Consciousness. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary of the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance and for Herbert Steiner's 60th birthday . Europaverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-203-50829-X .
  • Franz Pichler (Hrsg.): Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Meaning, development, activity . Federal Ministry for Science and Research, Vienna 1982, OBV .
  • Yearbook . Proven 1982 -, published annually, OBV .
  • Using the example of the ANR. Neo-Nazism in Austria . 1981, OBV .
  • The Austrian struggle for freedom 1934–1945 . 1979, OBV .
  • Helene Maimann (Red.), Bruno Kreisky: Austrians in Exile 1934 to 1945. Protocol of the International Symposium on Research into Austrian Exile from 1934 to 1945, held from June 3 to 6, 1975 in Vienna . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-215-02390-3 .
  • Herbert Steiner (Red.): Festschrift 10 Years Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance . 1975, OBV .
  • Herbert Steiner (Red.): Festschrift 10 Years Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance . 1973, OBV .
  • Notifications . January 1972 -, appears irregularly, OBV .
  • Catalog . March 1966 - November 1979, appears irregularly, OBV .
  • Catalogs of the DÖW . New series January 1996 -, appears irregularly, OBV .
  • Rosa Breuer: Heroes modern again? - after 20 years (dedicated to the memory of Ernst Kirchweger) . Youth and People, Vienna 1965, OBV .
  • Catalog of the archive holdings . January 1963 - February 1963, appears irregularly, OBV .
  • Special issue of the "Messages. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance ” . oJ, OBV .

Other literature

  • Jürgen Finger (Red.) Among others: From law to history. Files from Nazi trials as sources of contemporary history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35500-8 .
  • Kilian Franer, Ulli Fuchs (Ed.): Remembering for the future. A project to commemorate the Mariahilfer victims of Nazi terror . Echomedia-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902672-18-6 .
  • Peter Larndorfer: Memory and Musealization. The staging of memory using the example of the exhibition "The Austrian Struggle for Freedom 1934 - 1945" in the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance 1978 - 2005 . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2009, OBV

Board

The board of trustees, the board of directors and employees originally came from those political and ideological groups that were involved in the resistance and were victims of persecution.

President: Rudolf Edlinger SPÖ Minister a. D.
Vice President Gerhard Kastelic ÖVP ÖVP comradeship of the persecuted
Albert Dlabaja Chairman of the Austrian Buchenwald Concentration Camp Association
Claus J. Raidl President of the General Council of the Austrian National Bank
Johannes Schwandtner SPÖ Federal chairman of the association of social democratic freedom fighters and victims of fascism
Treasurer: Brigitte Bailer scientific director of the DÖW
Deputy Treasurer: Helmut Wohnout ÖVP Historian and ministerial official
Other board members: Edith Beinhauer Order of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Love
Ernst Berger University professor
Hubert Christian Ehalt Adviser for the City of Vienna (MA 7) for the promotion of science and research
Markus Figl ÖVP District chairman of the first district of Vienna
Rudolf Gelbard Affected
Gabriella breath Historian
Clemens Jabloner President of the Administrative Court
Heinrich Keller SPÖ Member of the National Council
Ariel Muzicant SPÖ former Pres. d. IKG
Wolfgang Neugebauer historian
Bertrand Perz Secretary of the Research Association on the History of National Socialism
Gerhard Schmid
Richard Schmitz former district chairman
Kurt Scholz SPÖ Pensioner, OSR, former restitution commissioner for the City of Vienna
Terezija Stoisits Green Member of the National Council
Manfred Wirtitsch Head of the Department of Teaching Principles and General Competencies at the BMB
Helmut Wohnout Office of the State Secretary for Art
Oskar German Head of the IKG
Albert Dlabaja
Barbara luck Head of the Mauthausen Memorial
Hannah Lessing General Secretary of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Willi Mernyi Chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria
Scientific Director: Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
Control: Eva Blimlinger
Helma Straszniczky
Peter Weidner

Web links

Commons : DÖW  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the DÖW website
  2. ^ Website of the DÖW, his story
  3. ↑ Bailer CV at DÖW
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  5. ↑ New head of the DÖW
  6. ↑ Documentation about resistance in Vienna 1934 to 1945 ready . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 28, 1975, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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  20. ^ Right-wing extremism in Austria after 1945 , table of contents as PDF, accessed on July 17, 2010.
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  22. ^ Foundation Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (Ed.), Brigitte Bailer (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism. 2nd act. and exp. Edition. Deuticke, Vienna 1996 ISBN 3-216-30099-4 .
  23. ↑ Permalink OBV .
  24. ↑ ORF : Anniversary: ​​40 Years of the Documentation Archive (DÖW) ( Memento from September 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ^ NS songbook: refused reviewer . November 25, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed November 27, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Brigitte Bailer-Galanda / DÖW: On the concept of right-wing extremism ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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  29. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. Time online , November 21, 2012.
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  32. ↑ Lost posters surfaced orf.at, November 10, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017.
  33. ↑ Mauthausen contemporary witness project ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
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  36. ↑ Database with information on the fate of over 62,000 Austrian victims of the Holocaust on the DÖW website
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  40. ^ Website of the Steinhof Memorial
  41. ↑ Focus: Education work with young people and adults . Table of contents as PDF (48 kB), accessed on October 22, 2010.
  42. ↑ Focus: Anti-Semitism . Table of contents online (PDF; 43 kB), accessed on August 28, 2013.
  43. ↑ Preserve - Research - Communicate . Table of contents as PDF (244 kB), accessed on August 28, 2013.
  44. ↑ From Law to History . Table of contents as PDF (277 kB), accessed on August 28, 2013.
  45. ↑ Remembering for the future . Table of contents as PDF (53 kB), accessed on October 22, 2010.
  46. ↑ Memory and Musealization . Full text as PDF (10.3 MB), accessed on October 22, 2010.