Everything about The Austrian Resistance totally explained
The
Austrian resistance to the Nazi rule that started with the
Anschluss in
1938 had a prehistory of socialist and communist activism against the era of
Austrofascism from
1934. These activists, limited primarily to adherents of the political far left, operated in isolation from the Austrian mainstream during the war years. One prominent activist was
Josef Plieseis. Other strands of Austrian resistance included Catholics and monarchists. However, it's notable that several Austrian nationalists, some of them even with fascist sympathies, also resisted, opposed to the destruction of the Austrian state.
Austrian society has had an ambivalent attitude both toward the Nazi government from 1938 to
1945 and the few that actively resisted it. Since large portions of Austrian society either actively or tacitly supported the Nazi regime, the Allied forces treated Austria as a belligerent party in the war and maintained occupation of it after the Nazi capitulation. On the other hand, the
Moscow Declaration labeled Austria as a free and democratic society before the war, and considered its capture an act of liberation.
Many books discuss the historical events from one perspective or another. An academic overview is given in "The Resistance in Austria, 1938-1945" by Radomír Luza, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
The sign of the Austrian resistance was
O5, where the 5 stands for E and OE is the abbreviation of Österreich with Ö as OE. This sign may be seen at the Stephansdom in Vienna.
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