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 ...

A new report on stolen property during the Nazi era says Austria's record on restitution has been 'half-hearted'. British historian Robert Knight served on the commission that produced the report, and ...

In the summer of 1914, Austria-Hungary saw the assassination of Franz Ferdinand as the perfect chance to crush Serbia.

The head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, Joerg Haider, once praised Adolf Hitler’s “sound employment policy” and called a group of Waffen SS veterans “decent people with character who stuck to ...