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- Title
Die erfundene „Trümmerfrau": Der Umgang mit der NS-Zeit in Österreich.
- Authors
Tschiggerl, Martin; Walach, Thomas
- Abstract
In 2018 then Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the Freedom Party of Austria solemnly inaugurated a monument for Austria's Trümmerfrauen (rubble women) in Vienna. This triggered a broad public debate about their importance and significance. The present contribution highlights the facts behind this strongly emotionalised discussion on the basis of hitherto hardly considered sources. Two conclusions provide the basis of this discussion: According to the available sources, men were overrepresented in the removal of rubble. For the most part, these rubble workers (both male and female) were former members of the Nazi movement, who were on work duty according to a constitutional law. At the centre of this contribution thus stands the question, how this legally prescribed "emergency work" was able to develop into a specifically Austrian idea of the Trümmerfrauen.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIA; STRACHE, Heinz-Christian; NATIONAL socialism; CONSTITUTIONAL law; FREIHEITLICHE Partei Oesterreichs; MONUMENTS; RUBBLE; VICTIMS; FEMALES; NAZIS; MALES
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 2, p299
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2022-0018