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| 1938 |
| | Left-wingers and Jews suffer immediate persecution in Nazi Austria, now part of Germany | |
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| 1938 |
| | Voters in both Germany and Austria give massive approval for Hitler's annexation of Austria | |
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| 1938 November 9 |
| | Nazi gangs smash the premises of Jews throughout Germany and Austria in a night that becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of cut glass | |
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| 1945 |
| | Austrian philosopher Karl Popper publishes The Open Society and its Enemies | |
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| 1945 |
| | Austrian composer Anton Webern is accidentally killed near Salzburg by a soldier in the US occupation force | |
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| 1945 April 13 |
| | Russian forces reach and capture the Austrian capital, Vienna | |
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| 1945 July 3 |
| | The four Allied powers (USA, UK, France, USSR) provide occupation forces for separate zones of Austria, Germany and Berlin | |
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| 1949 |
| | Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees make use of the polarized light of the sun to calculate direction | |
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| 1955 |
| | Austria achieves a much delayed return to nationhood after the Soviet Union finally agrees to withdraw from the country | |
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| 1966 |
| | Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience | |
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