03251nam 2200589Ia 450 991045898830332120200520144314.01-283-00997-897866130099750-19-984226-4(CKB)2560000000058578(EBL)665451(OCoLC)704278251(SSID)ssj0000473068(PQKBManifestationID)11297849(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473068(PQKBWorkID)10436449(PQKB)10764962(MiAaPQ)EBC665451(Au-PeEL)EBL665451(CaPaEBR)ebr10449723(CaONFJC)MIL300997(EXLCZ)99256000000005857820040804d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe setting of the pearl[electronic resource] Vienna under Hitler /Thomas WeyrOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (385 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514679-4 Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Map of Vienna; 1 Anschluss: From Berchtesgaden to the Heldenplatz: February 12-March 15, 1938; 2 The State Nobody Wanted: From St. Germain to Berchtesgaden: October 16, 1918-February 11, 1938; 3 Bürckel Takes Charge: From Plebiscite to Peace at Easter: March 15-April 25,1938; 4 To Kristallnacht: May 1-November 14, 1938; 5 The Lost City: Vienna's Golden Autumn: 1867-1938; 6 From Kristallnacht to the Outbreak of War: November 15, 1938-September 1, 1939; 7 Decline and Fall: From Bürckel to Schirach: September 2, 1939-August 8, 19408 Vienna's Second Chance: Baldur von Schirach: August 10, 1940-June 24, 19439 Prelude to Disaster: Schirach Loses Control: May 8, 1943-June 11, 1944; 10 The Last Year: Destruction from the Sky: July 1, 1944-March 1, 1945; 11 The Battle for Vienna: Death and Transfiguration: March 1-April 29, 1945; 12 The New Shape of the Pearl: Vienna after Hitler: 1945-2004; Notes; Bibliography; IndexWhen Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city ""a pearl to which he would give a proper setting."" But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland. Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers National socialismAustriaViennaWorld War, 1939-1945AustriaViennaVienna (Austria)History1918-Electronic books.National socialismWorld War, 1939-1945940.53/43613Weyr Thomas868957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458988303321The setting of the pearl1939848UNINA