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 ...

The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria's parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. It is the ...

Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880), Peter Joh. Nep. Geiger’s historische Original-Handzeichnungen bestehend in neunzig Blättern mit einem erklärenden Texte (Peter Joh. Nep. Geiger’s original ...

Austria's new National Exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial underscores one main point: the country has dropped its victim myth. https://p.dw.com/p/41X7l ...

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 ...

Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) is set to come out on top in the European country's national election on Sunday, according to projections, marking the first-time a far-right party has won since the ...

Austria has already produced one far-right leader who sent shockwaves through Europe. And this week, it came within a whisker of doing so again. No-one is saying Norbert Hofer who lost the vote to ...

A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a ...