From Nationalism to Nazism. Adolf Hitler as the best example of how this dark history has developed. A tour of Vienna's inner city that locates the historical events in such a way that the overview can be kept and easily understood.
Helmut Zilk Platz or at your Hotel
Memorial against war and fascism
Meeting place Greeting
History and significance of the Hrdlicka Memorial
Adolf Hitler as an opera fanatic, using the example of the Wagner productions of the court opera director Gustav Mahler and the importance of the stage designer Alfred Roller
History of the Ringstrasse, the expansion of the city and the rise of anti-Semitism
The Ringstrasse as the stage for the great Anschluss Parade.
Vienna as a unique venue for particularly cruel excesses of anti-Semitism and as a test city for the Final Solution logistics.
Overview of Hitler's early live and career until 1914. His "artist's career" in Vienna and his way into homelessness until the men's dormitory Meldemannstraße
The Eagles door as an example of illegal Nazis working towards the Anschluss.
The functioning of Nazi propaganda and propaganda architecture using the example of the flak towers
Hitler's further career from 1913 to 1933 in Germany from stateless private to leader of the NSDAP, attempted coup, prison, stock market crash, stoking fears, landslide victory in 1933, complete takeover of state affairs to the Anschluss speech from the balcony of the new Hofburg.
Short historical excursus on the emergence of nationalism per se since the end of the 18th century. Emperor Franz the Second First as host of the Congress of Vienna.
The Austrian Parliament as Hitler's learning field for the difficulties of democracy at that time,
The use of enemy images using the example of v. Schönerer and Dr Karl Lueger.
View of the Federal Chancellery: Political background to Hitler's invasion of Austria. Putsch attempt with the assassination of Dollfuss, lost Abyssinia war of Italy, axis Berlin Rome, loss of protection by Italy enables the invasion.
View of the monument to those persecuted by Nazi justice: explanation of the symbolism of the monument and the importance of the resistance to the State Treaty.
End of the Second World War, Hitler's suicide, occupation period (division of Vienna, First District "Four in a Jeep"). State Treaty 1955. Nowadays still existing nationalism and Nazism in the second democratic republic of Austria
Minoritenplatz
guide fee hotel pick-up
lunch
Hallstadt, Bad Ischl, Salzburg, Wachau Valley, Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, Budapest
Mondays through Fridays only after 1600 o'clock except holydays and school holydays
Weekends any time
A walking tour definitely handicapped accessible.