Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought: Austria, 1938 - 1988

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The events of the years 1938 to 1945 have had far-reaching effects in the Second Republic of Austria. In the last decade, especially, various interpretations of how the Anschluss came about, and how and why Austrians responded to it as they did, have sparked animated, sometimes bitter debate - all the more heated because it has been just now in the Second Republic that Austrians have begun to shape their national consciousness as an independent, self-confident, viable people