Alltag – Erinnerung – Aufarbeitung an der Universität Wien : Historische Wissenschaften in Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Nachkriegszeit

Abstract

Remembering is an active, collaborative process to slow down collective forgetting. The historical institutes of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty at the University of Vienna are increasingly dealing with their past during the years of Austrofascism, National Socialism, and the post-war period. Many members of the University of Vienna were victims, but even more were facilitators and accomplices of the National Socialist ideology. This volume presents individual results of this reappraisal. In addition to fundamental discussions about the field of history at the University of Vienna, the development of the discipline between the 1930s and the 1960s, and everyday university life and library science, four lecturers are presented under the heading “Between Victim and Perpetrator Roles.” Another contribution commemorates a medievalist from Graz who had studied in Vienna and perished in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942.