OVER NIGHT WE WERE BIRD-FREE (Ari Rath)
GreetingFranz Vranitzky, Former Federal Chancellor, Honorary President of the Kreisky Forum
Christian Kern, Former Federal Chancellor, SPÖ Chairman
Helene Maimann, historian, author, exhibition and film maker
Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance DÖW
Guest of honour: Rudi Gelbard, Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness (requested)
Moderation Sonja Kato, unikato communications
12 March 1938 has inscribed itself in world history and in world memory. „In my life,“ writes Carl Zuckmayer in his memoirs, „I had seen a great deal of human unleashing, horror and panic. None of it could be compared to these days in Vienna. The city was transformed into a nightmare painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
What was unleashed here was an uprising of envy, resentment, bitterness, blind, malicious vindictiveness - and all other voices were condemned to silence.“ To this day, these March days still characterise the image of Austria under Nazi rule.
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