Volume 51, Number 9 · May 27, 2004
Tyrol: Retreat to Reality
By Tim Parks
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century
by Rolf Steininger
Transaction, 171 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Ohne meinen Segen: Die Lebenserinnerungen der Unterfurner Bäuerin
by Adelheid Vorhauser Rabensteiner
Brixen: Suedmedia, 214 pp., $12.90
Südtirol im Dritten Reich/L'Alto Adige nel Terzo Reich, 1943–1945
edited by Gerald Steinacher
Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 388 pp., v33.00
The History of the South Tyrol Question
by Antony Evelyn Alcock
London: Michael Joseph, 535 pp. (1970; out of print)
Die Walsche
by Joseph Zoderer
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 120 pp., $7.90 (paper)
Immediately south of the Brenner Pass on the Italo-Austrian border, there is a mountainous area of some 7,400 square kilometers that is part of Italy but not, as it were, 'Italian.' Over 300,000 people there speak German (or rather a German dialect); the architecture is German; the food, the clothes, and the traditions are German.
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