By Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Jennifer Taylor
ISBN-10: 1441600078
ISBN-13: 9781441600073
ISBN-10: 1845114752
ISBN-13: 9781845114756
The Austrian Centre was once verified in London in 1939 through Austrians looking shelter from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached Britain via the outbreak of worldwide struggle II. It quickly built right into a complete social, cultural and political service provider with a theatre and a weekly newspaper of its personal. A Communist-influenced company, it additionally a different political time table. within the first publication at the cultural and political lifetime of Austrian refugees in Britain, 'Out of Austria' assesses and evaluates the Austrian Centre's actions and achievements, whereas additionally reading the Austrians' usually fraught kin with their British hosts. It provides a desirable perception into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who grew to become the Centre's Honorary President in the course of his ultimate months and the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old and sheds mild at the interplay of politics and tradition opposed to the historical past of exile in wartime Britain.
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This was hailed as a patriotic organization which, declaring itself at war with Germany, could coordinate resistance groups nationwide and give expression to the national desire for liberation, by virtue of its ability to represent all strata of the Austrian population and all anti-Fascist political forces and to conduct a real campaign of popular resistance. The Social Democrats dismissed most of this as existing only in the columns of the Austrian Centre’s press and suspected (correctly) that the radio station ‘Free Austria’, the mouthpiece of the internal resistance, was in reality based in Moscow, a suspicion confirmed by the fact that the transmitter remained mysteriously immune to Gestapo detector vans, even though Zeitspiegel obligingly published details of its transmissions and wavelengths.
1. 38 Ibid. 39 Untitled Memorandum, enclosed in Friedrich Hertz to Sir George Franckenstein, 13 February 1940. 40 Although officials in the refugee organizations could in general claim exemption from internment, known Communists among them were nonetheless often interned. 41 First Annual Report, p. 21. 42 Kolmer, Das Austrian Centre, p. 7. 15. EARLY DAYS OF THE AUSTRIAN CENTRE 44 45 46 47 48 49 21 See Eva Kolmer, ‘Problems of the Internment Camps: Impressions from a visit to the Isle of Man’, n.
Foreign Office disapproval of the speech meant that it was still far from becoming government policy, but leaders of the Austrian Centre like Eva Kolmer seized on it eagerly, though she knew the reservations of British policy-makers towards Austria full well from her Foreign Office contacts. 9 The leaders of the Austrian Centre were gratified by official British policy statements that they could interpret as moving towards the fulfilment of that crucial aim: the re-establishment of a free and independent Austria, on the condition that Austria played an active part in its own liberation.
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