Additional reading: Former director Brigitte Bailer on Austria’s dealing with her Nazi past and the role of D\u00d6W (PDF download of Bailer’s lecture in London, 2009<\/a>)<\/p>\n Main topics of research<\/strong><\/p>\n When the D\u00d6W was founded in 1963<\/a> historical files were generally locked in federal and state archives, and the documentation of resistance and persecution via private files and copies from foreign sources was the main focus for historical research. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s there was an increase in collecting activity, the best evidence of which were publication series about resistance and persecution in the Austrian federal states<\/a> (Bundesl\u00e4nder) and about Austrian refugees and expellees<\/a> (\u201c\u00d6sterreicher im Exil\u201d) with volumes about Great Britain, the USA and Latin America. In the 1990s the D\u00d6W started to compile a database of murdered Austrian Jews<\/a>.<\/p>\n Specific activities performed by the D\u00d6W include the collection and evaluation of documents, photographs, witness statements and publications regarding:<\/p>\n In the early years, primarily the fate of members of the political resistance was studied. However, in 1966, just three years after its foundation, the D\u00d6W published a first version of Jonny Moser\u2019s statistics about the victims of Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews (\u201cDie Judenverfolgung in \u00d6sterreich 1938-1945\u201d). And D\u00d6W was the first institution to publish a booklet about the almost complete extermination of Austrian Roma: \u201c\u00d6sterreichs Zigeuner im NS-Staat\u201d (Austria\u2019s Gypsies in the Nazi State, published also in 1966).<\/p>\n Later to these two were added other victim groups, the largest being victims of the Nazi euthanasia program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Developments in Austrian politics in the 1980s \u2013 such as the Waldheim affair and the rise of the populist Austrian Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) \u00ad\u2013 requested studies into two new topics, which became major fields of research of the D\u00d6W: Austria\u2019s coping with the Nazi past and rightwing extremism.<\/p>\n Also in the 1990s the D\u00d6W underwent a big broadening of its research and documentation activities in three new areas, which could be added to the categories<\/p>\n In completion to the data base of Holocaust victims and other Nazi victims additional data bases provide information about Austrian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, of Gestapo reports, and of biographical data of survivors. Some of these data basis are accessible only in D\u00d6W\u2019s finding aids inside the institution, others also in the internet.<\/p>\n Further information on D\u00d6W activities, announcements of conferences and lectures, a review of historical and political journals, book reviews etc. are included in the Newsletter of D\u00d6W (\u201cMitteilungen\u201d), which appears five times a year and can be sent free of charge to all interested parties; the \u201cMitteilungen\u201d are also available as PDF (cf. Link collection of this site). The annual \u201cJahrbuch\u201d of the D\u00d6W is being published in April and includes a detailed activity report. This report is available also on the D\u00d6W web site.<\/p>\n The director of the D\u00d6W is Gerhard Baumgartner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (Dokumentationsarchiv des \u00f6sterreichischen Widerstandes, D\u00d6W) was founded in 1963 by former members of the Austrian Resistance, victims of NS-persecution, and committed scholars from the sciences and humanities. The centre’s initiator and its scientific director until 1983 was Herbert Steiner, who had returned from exile in Great Britain. 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