• The Austrian resistance launched in response to the rise of the fascists across Europe and, more specifically, to the Anschluss in 1938 and resulting...
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    the subject of the small minority who formed an Austrian resistance, versus the vast majority of Austrians who participated in the Nazi war machine, had...
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    Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from...
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    information regarding Nazi armaments factories to the Allies, as by the Austrian resistance group led by Heinrich Maier, occurred. One strategy was to persuade...
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  • the French Resistance new people to incorporate into their political structures. Around May 1940, a resistance group formed around the Austrian priest Heinrich...
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    Josef Gangl (category Austrian resistance members)
    1945) was a German major of the Wehrmacht who became a member of the Austrian Resistance very late in the Second World War. He was killed in action on May...
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    Heinrich Maier (category Austrian resistance members)
    1908 – 22 March 1945) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, pedagogue, philosopher and a member of the Austrian resistance, who was executed as the last...
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  • Karl Burian (category Austrian resistance members)
    figure of the Austrian resistance against Nazi Germany. After Germany's anschluss of the country in March 1938, Burian created a resistance group, the Legitimist...
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  • Karl Fischer (1918–1963) was an Austrian resistance fighter against the Austro-fascist state, the Nazi state. Fischer was a Trotzkyan communist, whose...
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    has quotations related to Austrians. Demographics of Austria Austrian American Austrian Brazilian Austrian Canadians Austrian Mexicans Austro-Bavarian...
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    coup in 1934, Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by Austrian Nazis. The defeat of the coup prompted many leading Austrian Nazis to go...
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    Battle of Castle Itter (category Austrian resistance)
    help there. Armed with a similar note, he succeeded in contacting Austrian resistance in Wörgl which had recently been abandoned by Wehrmacht forces but...
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    Hans Maršálek (category Austrian resistance members)
    active in the resistance, he was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, he joined the Austrian political...
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  • Georgia Albanian resistance movement Austrian resistance movement (O5) Belarusian nationalist resistance movements: Anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus (1944–1950s) [ru]...
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    the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria. The fighting started when League members fired on the Austrian police who were attempting to enter the...
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  • Karl Biedermann (category Austrian resistance members)
    Miskolc, Austria-Hungary – 8 April 1945 in Vienna) was the commander of the Austrian Heimwehr, Major of Wehrmacht and a member of German resistance to Nazism...
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  • The Austrian Democratic Union (German: Österreichische Demokratische Union) was a grouping formed by Austrian exiles in Britain in August 1941 during...
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    to support the Austrian Communists against Nazi Germany. During Nazi rule, the KPÖ played an important role in the Austrian resistance, fighting side...
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  • Party of Austria under the rule of Engelbert Dollfuss and the later Austrian Resistance to Nazism there before her return to the US in 1939. Contemporary...
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    Erwin von Lahousen (category Austrian resistance members)
    member of the German Resistance and a key player in attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 13 March 1943 and 20 July 1944. An Austrian from an aristocratic...
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  • Albach-Retty, Austrian movie and stage actress Rosa Asmundsen (1846–1911), Norwegian actress and singer Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Austrian princess Rosa...
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  • Battle of Caldiero (1796) (category Battles involving Austria)
    of Verona. The battle was part of the third Austrian effort to relieve the Siege of Mantua. Two Austrian forces converged toward Mantua, the main army...
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    of an extraordinary instance of the U.S. Army, German Wehrmacht, Austrian Resistance, and the prisoners themselves fighting side-by-side against the Waffen-SS...
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  • Carl Szokoll (category Austrian resistance members)
    Carl Szokoll (15 October 1915 – 25 August 2004) was an Austrian resistance fighter involved in the 20 July Plot, major in the Wehrmacht, and, after the...
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    Jewish resistance under Nazi rule took various forms of organized underground activities conducted against German occupation regimes in Europe by Jews...
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    Party of Austria as junior partner. The Development of Right-Wing Extremism After 1945 Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance Austrian Cabinets...
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    The Danish resistance movements (Danish: Den danske modstandsbevægelse) were an underground insurgency to resist the German occupation of Denmark during...
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    Allied occupation and independent Second Austrian Republic. According to the founders of the Second Austrian Republic, the 1938 Anschluss was an act of...
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    Sacrifices And Significance Of The Austrian Resistance" (2019). Christoph Thurner "The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria: A History of the OSS's Maier-Messner...
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  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (category Austrian resistance members)
    January 1897 – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today...
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