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The setting of the pearl, Vienna under Hitler, Thomas Weyr

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The setting of the pearl, Vienna under Hitler, Thomas Weyr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The setting of the pearl

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56103773

Responsibility statement

Thomas Weyr

Review

"Here is an account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna, a once vibrant city that was the cradle of modernism, into a third-rate Prussian provincial town. In this narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik, proconsuls like Joseph Burckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Danubian capital - and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a deeply ingrained Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. He further shows how Hitler throttled the spirit of what remained through changes in education, city government, cultural life, even the architectural form of the city. The book includes Weyr's own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, along with those of his parents and friends, but the book is not simply a memoir; it is a full historical narrative that chillingly captures the spiritual and cultural ruin that Hitler inflicted on this once-great city."--Jacket

Sub title

Vienna under Hitler

Table Of Contents

Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938 -- The state nobody wanted: from St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938 -- Bürckel takes charge: from Plebiscite to peace at Easter: March 15-April 25, 1938 -- To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938 -- The lost city: Vienna's golden autumn: 1867-1938 -- From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939 -- Decline and fall: from Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940 -- Vienna's second chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 1943 -- Prelude to disaster: Schirach loses control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944 -- The last year: destruction from the sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945 -- The battle for Vienna: death and transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945 -- The new shape of the pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004

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