Austria News News Austria » History: Austrian far-right: history of a ‘pact with the devil’
Austria's new coalition between the conservatives and the far-right was sworn in on Monday, rekindling an alliance from the early 2000s which prompted unease around Europe. Here is a brief history of ...
News Austria » History: The Stain of History on Austria’s Art
This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a ...
News Austria » History: Austria Will Demolish Adolf Hitler's Birth Home From History
Adolf Hitler’s notorious childhood home in Braunau am Inn, Austria, has an unscheduled date with a wrecking ball, if the Interior Ministry gets its way. The Austrian government is pushing a plan to ...
News Austria » History: Austria's far right claim first election win in post-war history
The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria's parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. It is the ...
News Austria » History: Austria-Hungary in WWI: From Sarajevo to Stalemate (1914–1915)
How early blunders in Serbia and Galicia set the stage for a grinding, resource-draining war the Empire couldn’t win.
News Austria » History: A new museum captures Austria’s ambivalence about its past
MODERN AUSTRIA turned 100 on November 12th and, as a present, gave itself a history museum. Its first exhibition includes a towering wooden horse that sports the brown cap of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung ...
News Austria » History: Austria's far-right Freedom Party sets up panel to examine its past
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, which entered government in December, announced on Tuesday is was setting up a panel of people to investigate its history, a bid to distance ...
News Austria » History: Austrian court overturns presidential election, calls rerun
Austria’s highest court ruled Friday that presidential elections narrowly lost by a right-wing candidate must be repeated after his party claimed gross irregularities in the absentee vote count. The ...
News Austria » History: Writer, singer plumb history of Austria's Jews
And yet Hans Breuer doesn't seem particularly quaint as he sits with tour buddy and author Sam Apple in the Starbucks across from the Galleria. Under the lightest prodding, 51-year-old Breuer launches ...
News Austria » History: Austria's far right claim first election win in post-war history
A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a ...