Austria once denied its Nazi past. Now it sends young people abroad to confront it.
For decades after 1945, Austrians often emphasized their own victimhood under Nazi Germany. Only in the 1980s and ‘90s did they formally and informally acknowledge the role of Austrians as perpetrators and supporters of Nazi crimes. In 1998, at the peak of this reckoning, the Austrian Service Abroad program was established to provide young Austrians […]
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