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Article: Austria since Hitler - Owning up.(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2000
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GUILTY VICTIM: AUSTRIA FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO HAIDER. By Hella Pick. I.B. Tauris; 264 pages; Pounds24.50. Distributed in America by St Martin's; $35
HELLA PICK, Austrian by birth but forced to flee when the country was willingly annexed by Hitler in 1938, has followed the Alpine state closely during her years as a journalist with Britain's Guardian newspaper. "Guilty Victim" contains her reflections on its modern history. The rise to power of the right-wing Freedom party (FPO) under Jorg Haider is not its main topic. But this timely book provides valuable background to the Haider question: passing nuisance or poisonous threat?
The FPO owes its success to ...