Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Preliminary remark:The following documentation pertains to the paper "The Frauwallner Controversy Continued.A Survey of the Archive Files" (in: ZDMG 176 [2026], pp.137-154), including all bibliographical references and abbreviations.Explanatory notes and quotations from research articles have been translated into English (translations mine).This should enable the argumentation to be understood in context.The archive files, however, are presented in the original bureaucratese in diplomatic transcription, with occasional grammatical lapses and typos retained.The documents serve as corroborating evidence and form a basis for subsequent research.Further research into this complex matter, set in a purely German-speaking environment, would necessitate proficiency in German.Due to this prerequisite, a translation of the vo lu mi nous documents was considered unnecessary.Any additions in square brackets are my own.Note that, for the avoidance of doubt, the term "incriminated" ("belastet") is legally equivalent to "Gestapo member," whereas "incriminated on a low level" ("minderbelastet") is legally equivalent to "not a member of the Gestapo."D1 29 November 1932: Member of the NSDAP (membership no.1,387.121).1 On the sociological background of this "generational phenomenon, limited to a few age groups [in Austria], in which the social upheavals of traditional values in the war and post-war periods are likely to have had a political impact," see G. Botz.2-"It was precisely these cohorts that had undergone the formative years of their personality development and political socialisation in the immediate pre-war period during the First World War and in the immediate post-war period.Patriotic enthusiasm and their 'front-line service' had awakened in them an ideological predisposition to the syndrome described as 'Volks gemeinschaft' ideology […]."3-"In 1941 […] approximately 40 % of all public servants […] had become members of the NSDAP […].Higher-ranking civil servants, who, like other public 1 Gauakte (AdR), foll.7 f.Cf.
Author: Walter Slaje
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7155774195