Mar 1, 2012 · In 1945 the Allies designated Austria as “Hitler’s first victim,” but Europeans whose families suffered under the Nazis in Austria (including Linz and its environs) understood this as self-serving revisionism. The EU urged Linz—as it set about preparing for a year in the limelight—to recover its memory.

During World War II Linz was a giant industrial complex in support of the Nazi war effort. Hermann Göring supervised the construction of the Voest complex, ultimately a gigantic construction site built by slave labour.

Construction of heavy industry (the Hermann Göring Reich Works, Nitrogen Works Ostmark) and the construction of numerous residential buildings, rebuilding of the Nibelungen Bridge; Linz becomes a centre of the armaments industry in the Second World War; Hitler plans ‘Greater Linz’ to become one of five ‘Cities of the Führer’ in the ...

Displaced camps in Austria and immigration after the war. Study guide for all the 1945-1949 holocaust of all nationalities during World War II. Photos, E-mail inquiries, research links

In the spring of 1944, at the behest of Hitler himself, the SS provided prisoners as labourers to extend the air raid shelters at the Märzenkeller. The approximately 380 male prisoners of this camp, which was named Linz II and was run by the SS, …

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Linz, Austria. 823 CE - Archbishop of Passau in power. [2] 1190 - Babenberger Leopold V in power (approximate date). [3] 1210 - Linzer Schloss [de] (castle) expanded (approximate date). [2] 1236 - Siege by Bavarians. [4] 1251 - Ottokar II of Bohemia in power. [5]

The theory of victimhood, in which Austria and its population were just victims of Hitler's Germany, had already been promoted as state doctrine. Linz street names that evoked Nazi rule were abolished in 1945.

Dec 16, 2008 · Nearly four decades have passed since the collapse of the Greater German Reich, but the subject of Nazi rule in Hitler's homeland of Austria still remains something of a mystery.

(photo credits: 11th Armored Division Foto; Courtesy of NARA) On 1 May 1945 the 11th Armored Division of the 3rd US Army crossed the border between Austria and Germany near Passau, with the aim of taking Linz, once known as the „Führer’s city“, and of securing the only two remaining Danube bridges between Passau and Vienna.

Hours later, Adolf Hitler visited Linz in the recently annexed Austria region of Germany; he met with the German-installed Austrian Chancellor Arthur Seyß-Inquart at this city to discuss details of the occupation.