Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
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Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance

The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from 1938 until 1945, exile, Nazi crimes, right-wing extremism after 1945, and victims' reparations.

Its main seat is located in the former town hall of Vienna on Wipplingerstraße.

The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance was founded on February 11, 1963, by Ludwig Jedlicka [de], August Maria Knoll [de], Paul Schärf, Ludwig Soswinski [de] and Herbert Steiner [de], former members of the Austrian resistance, victims of NS-persecution, and committed scholars from the sciences and humanities. The late foundation 18 years after the end of World War II is explained by the hostile political and social environment that existed in Austria in the postwar years, which was still dominated by participants of the World War and former Nazis. Resistance was long seen as an act of cowardice, treason and murder.

A landmark in the development of the center was the establishment of the DÖW Foundation in 1983, which is supported by the Austrian Federal Government, the City of Vienna, and the DÖW Society, thus putting the center on a sound financial footing. From its modest beginnings, when work was carried out mainly by idealistic victims of Fascism and later by a qualified younger staff, the center has developed into an authoritative institution, respected in Austria and abroad. The focal points of the center's broad range of tasks can be summarized as follows:

The activity of the center encompasses the following areas:

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