Austria's parliament has agreed to rehabilitate Wehrmacht deserters more than six decades after the end of World War II. The measure approved late Wednesday clears the names and reputations of men ...

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Two Austrian divisions were attached to the 6th Army. First, the 100th Jaeger (hunter) division of the German Wehrmacht was raised in Upper Austria in December 1940. Two-thirds of its men were ...

Austria became part of a Greater Germany early on March 12, 1938, when Wehrmacht troops crossed into the country to ensure a smooth takeover in what became known as the “Anschluss.” ...

Around 1.3 million Austrians served in the German Wehrmacht after their country was annexed by Germany in 1938. About 1,200 to 1,400 Austrian deserters were executed during World War Two.

Waldheim’s 1986 election to the ceremonial post of the federal presidency in a campaign dominated by revelations about his role as a Wehrmacht officer forced Austria to reconsider its Nazi past ...

After the end of the war, survivors of this persecution were often met with rejection and hostility in Austria. After the war Austria saw itself as the “first victim” of German war policy, and viewed ...

It is almost exactly 80 years since Hitler’s Wehrmacht marched into Austria. But while the dictator was after Austrian gold, he didn’t immediately intend to annex the country of his birth, a ...

The WWII deserters “are at the very crux of Austria's post-war lie, because if the country was, as is still officially claimed, the first victim of Hitler's Germany, then the Wehrmacht would ...