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The setting of the pearl : Vienna under Hitler / Thomas Weyr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weyr, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National socialism--Austria--Vienna.
- National socialism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Austria--Vienna.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Vienna (Austria)--History--1918-.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 352, [16] pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city ""a pearl to which he would give a proper setting."" But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland. Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Map of Vienna; 1 Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938; 2 The State Nobody Wanted: From St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938; 3 Bürckel Takes Charge: From Plebiscite to Peace at Easter: March 15-April 25,1938; 4 To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938; 5 The Lost City: Vienna's Golden Autumn: 1867-1938; 6 From Kristallnacht to the Outbreak of War: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939; 7 Decline and Fall: From Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 1940
- 8 Vienna's Second Chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 19439 Prelude to Disaster: Schirach Loses Control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944; 10 The Last Year: Destruction from the Sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945; 11 The Battle for Vienna: Death and Transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945; 12 The New Shape of the Pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
- ISBN:
- 1-283-00997-8
- 9786613009975
- 0-19-984226-4
- OCLC:
- 704278251
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