Anatomical science at University of Vienna 1938-45. Senate Project of the University of Vienna.

Abstract

60 years after the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria to the German Reich in March, 1938, Austria is still confronted by unaddressed questions about its Nazi past. After the fall of the National Socialist regime these questions were ignored or suppressed and for decades there was little discussion about events that occurred between 1938 and 1945 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna.1,2 Investigations were launched only in response to initiatives from abroad.3–6