Volume 33, Number 15 · October 9, 1986

The Waldheim File

By Gordon A. Craig
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism
by Bruce F. Pauley

University of North Carolina Press, 292 pp., $21.00

Hitler's Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945
by Evan Burr Bukey

Indiana University Press, 288 pp., $25.00

Kurt Waldheim's Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress
World Jewish Congress (June 2, 1986)
Die Reichsidee bei Konstantin Frantz Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien (1944) (Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.)
by Kurt Waldheim

Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Rechts- und

In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir
by Kurt Waldheim

Adler and Adler, 278 pp., $17.95

In October 1943, the foreign ministers of Great Britain and the Soviet Union and the secretary of state of the United States of America met in Moscow to discuss a variety of territorial and other problems that would arise at the war's end. In the course of these talks, they touched briefly on the future disposition of Austria, which had since 1938 been an integral part of the Great German Reich, and agreed without difficulty that—as their communiqué stated later—'Austria, the first free country to fall victim to Hitlerite aggression, shall be liberated from German domination.'



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