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- Title
Letter from Vienna: Selective Amnesia.
- Authors
Miller, Alice
- Abstract
The author describes architecture in Vienna, Austria, and how Austrians have dealt with the memory of Austrian association with Nazi Germany prior to, during, and after World War II. The article discusses the presence of German-built antiaircraft gun towers known as Flaktürme in Vienna, the 75th anniversary of the German annexation of Austria known as the Anschluss in 2013, and discussion within Austria on the country's relationship with Nazi Germany. The author discusses contemporary political tension in Vienna, particularly concerning the European Union, collective memory in Austria, and Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's concept of the city of the mind.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; ARCHITECTURE; COLLECTIVE memory; ARCHITECTURE &; community; WORLD War II; EUROPEAN Union; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; ANNEXATION of Austria to Germany, 1938; AUSTRIAN history, 1938-1945; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945; HISTORY; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL history
- Publication
American Scholar, 2013, Vol 82, Issue 3, p6
- ISSN
0003-0937
- Publication type
Article