The museum, or permanent exhibition, of DÖW is located in rooms on the ground floor of Vienna’s Old Town Hall (Altes Rathaus). The main themes on view are the persecution of Austrians on racist, religious or national-patriotic grounds, the expulsion of 130,000 Austrians from their native land following the German invasion of March 1938, and the resistance to the Nazi occupation. A separate section deals with extreme right-wing and neo-Nazi currents in Austria since the war. A computer program enables visitors to receive further and more in-depth information on the exhibition’s topics through texts, documents, and photographs. Moreover, visitors can use databases to query the names of Austrian Holocaust victims or of victims of the Gestapo. The exhibition is of special value to teachers, as it provides vivid supplementary material for the study of modern Austrian history.
Content:
- The Rise of the NSDAP and its Road to Power
- Austria 1918-1938
- The Annexation of Austria
- Nazi Terror
- Persecution of the Austrian Jews
- Deportations of the Austrian Jews
- Resistance
- The Carinthian Slovenes
- Roma and Sinti -
"Gypsies" in the Nazi Era - The Persecution of Homosexual Men and Women
- On the Role of Medicine in National Socialism
- Forced Labor
- Mauthausen Concentration Camp
- Exile
- Austria and the Victims of National Socialism
- The Culture of Remembrance
- Denazification and the Punishment of Nazi Crimes in Austria
- Right-Wing Extremism
- Target groups: School classes, police training schools, Zivildiener groups (men performing alternative military service), people interested in contemporary history.
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Visitor groups are offered free tours by eyewitnesses or young historians, upon booking (+43-1-22 89 469/319).
Discussions on the topics of right-wing extremism and Neo-Nazism.
The DÖW takes care of the
Gedenkstätte für die Opfer
des österreichischen Freiheitskampfes 1938-1945 (Memorial for the
Victims of the Gestapo)
and the exhibition
The War against 'the Inferior':
On the history of Nazi medicine in Vienna in Vienna's Otto Wagner Hospital.
"The Austrian Fight for Freedom" (also available as a poster folder) and
"Austrians in Exile 1934-1945" can be borrowed, free of charge, from the
Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.
Opening times:
Monday to Wednesday, Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Thursday
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
