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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time since the end of World War II, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) was asked to form a government after the failed coalition negotiations between the conservative, ...