https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed While the 1942 Disney film "Bambi" is world famous as a classic of animated cinema, the man behind the story -- an eminent writer in pre-war Vienna who had to flee the Nazis -- is little known. https://www.thelocal.at/20210611/neglected-austrian-creator-of-bambi-celebrated-in-vienna-show Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:55:42 +0200 neglected-austrian-creator-of-bambi-celebrated-in-vienna-show Letters found stashed in an Austrian attic sent by the father of Adolf Hitler have shed light on the tyrant's upbringing. https://www.thelocal.at/20210312/austria-newly-discovered-letters-from-hitlers-father-reveal-dictators-genius-complex Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:34:10 +0100 austria-newly-discovered-letters-from-hitlers-father-reveal-dictators-genius-complex A member of the Rothschild family is suing the city of Vienna, accusing it of "perpetuating" Nazi laws by plundering the Jewish banking family's foundation, media reports said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.at/20200125/rothschild-heir-accuses-vienna-of-perpetuating-nazi-laws-reports Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:29:36 +0100 rothschild-heir-accuses-vienna-of-perpetuating-nazi-laws-reports Germany is still making payments to more than 2,000 people worldwide under a law that provides for "war victims", including those who collaborated with the World War II Nazi regime. https://www.thelocal.at/20190222/germany-making-disputed-nazi-war-payments-to-over-2000-people Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:27:48 +0100 germany-making-disputed-nazi-war-payments-to-over-2000-people German police seized three watercolours presented as works of Adolf Hitler before they were due for auction Thursday in Berlin, claiming they could be fakes. https://www.thelocal.at/20190125/german-police-seize-fake-hitler-watercolours Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:42:00 +0100 german-police-seize-fake-hitler-watercolours "Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20180317/holocaust-survivor-marko-feingold-104-recalls-the-anschluss Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:50:00 +0100 holocaust-survivor-marko-feingold-104-recalls-the-anschluss An 80-year search effort by a Jewish family for a painting stolen by the Nazis has come to a somewhat disappointing end as the artwork will now go on auction at Sotheby's in London. https://www.thelocal.at/20170529/italian-masterpiece-stolen-by-nazis-from-austrian-family-goes-on-auction-in-london Mon, 29 May 2017 14:07:01 +0200 italian-masterpiece-stolen-by-nazis-from-austrian-family-goes-on-auction-in-london Austrian police have said that an Adolf Hitler lookalike who was arrested on Monday will likely be ordered to remain in pretrial custody on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20170215/austrian-police-say-hitler-double-is-obsessed-with-nazi-era Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:54:32 +0100 austrian-police-say-hitler-double-is-obsessed-with-nazi-era One of Austria's most important anti-Nazi films was thought lost for decades, until it was uncovered by chance last year. Now experts must race to keep from losing The City Without Jews again - this time from decay. https://www.thelocal.at/20161201/austrias-race-against-time-to-save-anti-nazi-film Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:00:54 +0100 austrias-race-against-time-to-save-anti-nazi-film Irma Schwager, an Austrian heroine of the anti-Nazi resistance, has died aged 95, Austria's communist party said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20150623/austrian-nazi-resistance-heroine-dies-aged-95 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:42:11 +0200 austrian-nazi-resistance-heroine-dies-aged-95 Official ceremonies are being held in Austria on Monday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Second Republic. https://www.thelocal.at/20150427/70-years-since-the-founding-of-second-republic Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:13:40 +0200 70-years-since-the-founding-of-second-republic A lecture by the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman at the Wien Museum on Vienna’s Karlsplatz was briefly disrupted by a crowd of Polish nationalists shouting anti-Semitic and anti-Communist slogans on Wednesday evening. https://www.thelocal.at/20150409/neo-nazis-disrupt-lecture-in-vienna-museum Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:38:26 +0200 neo-nazis-disrupt-lecture-in-vienna-museum A new museum dedicated to the life and work of Austrian holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl is opening in Vienna on Thursday March 26th. https://www.thelocal.at/20150325/viktor-frankl-museum-to-open-in-vienna Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:45:35 +0100 viktor-frankl-museum-to-open-in-vienna Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, ageing survivors and dignitaries are gathering at the site synonymous with the Holocaust to honour the victims. https://www.thelocal.at/20150127/survivors-mark-auschwitz-anniversary Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:43:00 +0100 survivors-mark-auschwitz-anniversary A new museum dedicated to those who helped 10,000 mostly Jewish children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape from the Nazis is opening in Vienna. https://www.thelocal.at/20141204/museum-showcases-memories-of-kindertransport Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:01:00 +0100 museum-showcases-memories-of-kindertransport Daphna Amit (a translator) and her brother Dan Arnold (a tour guide) grew up speaking German in Binyamina, Israel. Their grandmother was Paula Arnold, an essayist, journalist and translator from Vienna, born in 1885. https://www.thelocal.at/20141127/holocaust-survivors-grandchildren-return-to-vienna Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:32:00 +0100 holocaust-survivors-grandchildren-return-to-vienna Austria’s national railway company ÖBB has held an exhibition at the European Parliament which looks at a dark chapter in its past - the firm’s complicity in the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20141110/austrian-railways-exhibition-about-holocaust-complicity Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:10:00 +0100 austrian-railways-exhibition-about-holocaust-complicity Austria’s first Holocaust memorial centre will open in the country’s second largest city of Graz next year. https://www.thelocal.at/20141105/austrias-first-holocaust-memorial-centre-to-open-in-2015 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:57:00 +0100 austrias-first-holocaust-memorial-centre-to-open-in-2015 The lawyer for a Viennese Jewish author found guilty of defrauding the government over property confiscated by the Nazis has requested that the case be reheard. https://www.thelocal.at/20141031/austrian-restitution-case-flawed Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:30:00 +0100 austrian-restitution-case-flawed A pair of rare Brescian flintlock holster pistols that were looted by the Nazis will be auctioned at Bonhams in London on November 26th for an estimated £60,000 to £80,000. https://www.thelocal.at/20141022/pistols-looted-by-nazis-to-be-sold-at-bonhams Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:06:00 +0200 pistols-looted-by-nazis-to-be-sold-at-bonhams