After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right - highlighting ...

It has taken Austria a long time to decide on how to narrate its history during the Third Reich. "The time had to be ripe first," said Hannah Lessing, the secretary general of the National Fund of ...

Austria has already produced one far-right leader who sent shockwaves through Europe. And this week, it came within a whisker of doing so again. No-one is saying Norbert Hofer who lost the vote to ...

Here is a brief history of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) and its first period in coalition government, dubbed a “pact with the devil” by the media. SS-admirer Haider ...

Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, which entered government in December, announced on Tuesday is was setting up a panel of people to investigate its history, a bid to distance itself from anti ...

Austria’s attitude toward the Holocaust has certainly evolved. No longer is Austria just a victim of Nazi aggression, as Kurz and his predecessors have said.

Austria should not wait for Rudolf Leopold to pass away before it takes the stain of history off its artists’ masterworks. Eric Frey is managing editor of the Vienna daily Der Standard.