{"id":225,"date":"2017-08-16T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?p=225"},"modified":"2017-08-17T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:52:03","slug":"contemporary-historian-archivist-rationalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Historian\u2014Archivist\u2014Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited by Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider<\/strong> and Christine Schindler<\/strong>
\non behalf of\"\"
\nThe Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance \/ Dokumentationsarchiv des \u00f6sterreichischen Widerstandes (D\u00d6W<\/a>)
\nand the Austrian Research Agency for Post-War Justice \/ Zentrale \u00f6sterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz (FStN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The historian Winfried R. Garscha, archivist at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance and co-Director of the Research Agency for Post-War Justice, celebrated his 65th<\/sup> birthday in May 2017. On this occasion D\u00d6W and FStN published a \u201cfestschrift\u201d in which the contributions of more than 30 authors reflect the broad spectrum of Garscha\u2019s research.
\nAccording to his own publications the texts thus span an arc from the history of the labor movement; through World War I and First Republic; to Nazi rule, resistance, persecution, and the Holocaus. Likewise examined are the judicial prosecution of Nazi crimes in Austria and other forms of coming to terms with the sequels of the Nazi dictatorship. The book includes contributions in German and English.
\nAmong the English texts are Evan Burr Bukey<\/strong>\u2019s interview of the Nazi mayor of Linz, Josef Wolkerstorfer (28 July 1978), as well as essays by
\nG\u00fcnter Bischof\u00a0<\/strong> (\u201cBusy with Refugee Work\u201d: Joseph Buttinger, Muriel Gardiner, and the Saving of Austrian Refugees, 1940\u20131941<\/em>),
\nMichael Bryant<\/strong> (The Death Camp as a Criminal Organization. Theories of Systemic Criminality in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1945\u2013201<\/em>5), and
\nFelix Tweraser<\/strong> (Arthur Schnitzler, Political Identity Formation, and First-Republic Austria<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Among the German texts are of special interest for American readers the essays by
\nBrigitte Bailer<\/strong> about the German contribution to the indemnification of Austrian Nazi victims (Deutsche Zahlungen f\u00fcr \u00f6sterreichische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus \u2013 das Abkommen von Bad Kreuznac<\/em>h),
\nHans Hautmann<\/strong> about Austrian military justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina before and during World War I (Kriegsjustiz in Bosnien-Herzegowina unter Habsburgs Herrschaft<\/em>),
\nEleonore Lappin-Eppel<\/strong> about a Viennese resistance group of \u201chalf Jewish\u201d juveniles (Die \u201eMischlingsliga Wien\u201c \u2013 Widerstandsgruppe und Jugendorganisation<\/em>),
\nWolfgang Neugebauer<\/strong> (Zur Struktur, Gr\u00f6\u00dfe und Effizienz des kommunistischen Widerstands in \u00d6sterreich 1938\u20131945<\/em>),
\nSiegfried Sanwald<\/strong> about the Austrian judiciary and Adolf Eichmann (Adolf Eichmann und die \u00f6sterreichische Justiz. Neue Aspekte auf der Grundlage des Akts des Bundesministeriums f\u00fcr Justiz<\/em>), and
\nKurt Tweraser<\/strong> about the failed attempt of US Allied Commission for Austria in 1946, to privatize German assets in Austria (Der gescheiterte amerikanische Versuch, das \u201eDeutsche Eigentum\u201c in \u00d6sterreich zu privatisieren<\/em>),
\nas well as a \u201cfootnote\u201d by Dick de Mildt<\/strong> about new arguments of the German prosecutors with regard to the punishment of Nazi crimes (Fu\u00dfnote zur \u201eJustizwende\u201c in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Garscha\u2019s colleague, co-director Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider<\/strong>, added a \u201cworkshop report\u201d about common research into Austrian post World War II judiciary by both scholars (20 Jahre Zentrale \u00f6sterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz. Ein Werkstattbericht<\/em>). Under the title \u201cIt\u2019s crucial to pose the right questions\u201d, Rudolf Leo<\/strong> followed Garscha\u2019s traces in Austrian media (\u201eWichtig ist, richtige Fragen zu stellen.\u201c Winfried R. Garscha im\u00a0 Spiegel ausgew\u00e4hlter \u00f6sterreichischer Medien<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Vienna 2017
\n500 pages
\nPrice: EUR 19,50<\/p>\n

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Edited by Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Christine Schindler on behalf of The Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance \/ Dokumentationsarchiv des \u00f6sterreichischen Widerstandes (D\u00d6W) and the Austrian Research Agency for Post-War Justice \/ Zentrale \u00f6sterreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz (FStN) The historian Winfried R. Garscha, archivist at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance and co-Director of the Research Agency … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}