Austria

Austria ( (listen), ; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐʁaɪ̯ç] (listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich, listen ), is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states (Bundesländer), one of which is Vienna, Austria's capital and its largest city. It is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of …

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5 May 2022 English

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

detection by radar and landing in a corn field in Austria. FCO 28/4192 51 Textual Promotion of Gorbachev


5 May 2022 English

Dr. Mark Allinson, University of Bristol; Professor Csaba Békés, Corvinus University of Budapest; Dr. Peter Bugge, Aarhus University; Professor Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University; Dr. Hope M. Harrison, The George Washington …

is Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45–1948/49 (Co-ed.), (Central European University


1 January 2017 English

The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …

century its newly powerful neighbors – Russia, Austria, and Prussia – eliminated their Polish 1 For the partitioning its lands among themselves. Once Germany and Austria were defeated in the First World War, Poles pressed only by reclaiming lands seized by Germany and Austria. To regain its former lands to the east, the new


1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

capitalist countries (Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Norway, and the Netherlands), but the extreme


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English

As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …

movement checks in the Soviet occupied zone in Austria, and, most importantly, by encouraging the negotiating


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of documents concerning the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (K.S.?.) and the Czechoslovak government. Subjects discussed in the file include a conference of K.S.?. party secretaries; the sixth meeting …

advantageous^ss cf that cocpcr- _ \ h e relations with Austria and the Poderal republic " Germany\ our direct


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Czech

A file of documents concerning the restitution of Czechoslovak gold and the settlement of British claims against Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include an agreement for the repatriation of …

I /and UK, speech. Apart from the US,/only Austria and the FRG of Western countries were directly case and other difficulties with Austria, the passage about Austria sounds particularly hollow: ,r "e good neighbourly relations with the Republic of Austria." The latest rumours are that President Husak's


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

A file of documents concerning the restitution of Czechoslovak gold and the settlement of British claims against Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include an agreement for the repatriation to …

UK claims on Czechoslovakia in relation to the Austria 4^% Guaranteed Conversion Loan 1934-59, for which Upon the outbreak of war in 19 39 payments by Austria ceased and the eight Guarantors were called upon Total due Nos. Bonds Capital Interest of Austria Czechoslovakia cf No.of from @ 2.2^% Interest


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

n t r i e s i n West B e r l i n : Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great B r i


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

file include the criteria established by Britain for accepting Polish refugees into Britain from Austria; enquiries received by voluntary organisations in Britain from the British public interested in sponsoring

' I u r f ^ v - I ' POLISH REFUGEES IN AUSTRIA 1. Your letter GW/POLA/24-2/1 of 11 November offers of sponsorship for Poles currently in Austria waiting to come to the United Kingdom. / 2. United Kingdom of Polish refugees currently in Austria. I was interested to hear that the voluntary agencies the admission of Polish refugees currently in Austria, which you announced in the House of Commons on this. I understand that applications by Poles in Austria are received in the first instance at the British


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