According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938. In contrast to works that view anti-Semitism as an inherent national characteristic, his account identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitic sentiment that pervaded Austrian society on the eve of the Holocaust.

About the Author
Bruce F. Pauley, professor of history at the University of Central Florida, is author of several books, including Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism. In 1996, he was named a distinguished alumnus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.


Book Information
ISBN 9780807847138
Author Bruce F. Pauley
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 690g