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Author Weyr, Thomas.

Title The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler / Thomas Weyr.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5343 WEYR    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-341) and index.
Contents Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938 -- The state nobody wanted: from St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938 -- Bürckel takes charge: from Plebiscite to peace at Easter: March 15-April 25, 1938 -- To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938 -- The lost city: Vienna's golden autumn: 1867-1938 -- From Kristallnacht to the outbreak of war: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939 -- Decline and fall: from Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940 -- Vienna's second chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 1943 -- Prelude to disaster: Schirach loses control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944 -- The last year: destruction from the sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945 -- The battle for Vienna: death and transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945 -- The new shape of the pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria -- Vienna.
National socialism -- Austria -- Vienna.
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 1918-
ISBN 0195146794 alkaline paper
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