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Kurt Bauer - No-Man’s Land: Between War and Peace

Austria in 1945

Moving everyday stories from a year of chaos

Spring, 1945: caught between the advancing Allied armies, Austria was temporarily transformed into a political no-man’s land. There was chaos, hope and fear. Drawing on the everyday lives of ordinary people, Kurt Bauer vividly explores this tumultuous year. There is the Wehrmacht soldier who takes a long and winding road home; the Jewish emigre forced into exile in 1938, returning to his home town as part of the victorious army—only to find that the old Vienna of his childhood is gone; the Jewish woman who survived the war in Vienna and now wants to get to the USA as quickly as possible … a multifaceted and gripping book.

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224 pages
format:140 x 215
ISBN: 9783701736317
Release date: 24.03.2025

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Authors
Kurt Bauer

born in 1961 in St. Peter am Kammersberg (Styria), trained typesetter, worked for many years as a producer and publishing editor, studied history at the University of Vienna part-time. Freelance historian since 2007, employee of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, Graz - Vienna since 2019. Author of numerous well-known books on Austrian contemporary history, most recently "Hitlers zweiter Putsch" (Residenz Verlag, 2014), "Die dunklen Jahre" (2017), "Der Februaraufstand 1934" (2019) and "Niemandsland zwischen Krieg und Frieden" (2025).

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