Witness History
Witness History
Austria at War
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October 11, 2018
9 minutes
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In October 1945, Austria got its first provisional government since its annexation by Nazi Germany a year before the Second World War. Wilfriede Iwaniuk was 14 when Hitler marched into Vienna; she tells Louise Hidalgo about the harshness of the war years and how, after the war too, there was no food and few jobs.
Picture: Wilfriede Iwaniuk in 1946.(Credit: the Iwaniuk family)