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This article focuses on the impact of images on reconstructions of the past. In order to analyze the function of images in history textbooks, image-discourse analysis is applied to a case study of Austrian postwar memory. The analysis of recent Austrian history textbooks provides insight into strategies by which notions of Austria as both "victim" and "perpetrator" of the National Socialist regime are held in balance. The article also focuses on the intentional framing of iconic depictions of two central Austrian sites of memory, Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz) and the State Treaty (Staatsvertrag).

This article presents the results of an analysis of different sources concerned with the workers' revolt of July 15, 1927 (also known as the Vienna Palace of Justice fire). The author pays special attention to the socio-historical and source-critical evaluation of more than 100 photographs illustrating this fire on July 15, 1927 by using the shadows on buildings in order to establish an exact dating of the documented acts of violence. This "shadow method" he developed himself allows to clarify the motivations and social composition of the protesters and reveal the role of the police in escalating the violence. He is able to establish an exact chronology of the events and an explanation of the social dynamics leading to a death toll of 85 demonstrators and 4 police men.

AN AUTHORITARIANISM STUDY CARRIED OUT AMONG AUSTRIAN ADOLESCENTS IN 1980 IS ANALYZED IN COMPARISON WITH SIMILAR STUDIES MADE IN WEST GERMANY AND IN THE UNITED STATES TO SEE WHETHER VOTING BEHAVIOR IN THE WALDHEIM ELECTION 6 YEARS LATER WAS FORESHADOWED. OTHER SURVEYS OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM IN AUSTRIA ARE EXAMINED AND FOUND TO DISCLOSE SIMILAR PATTERNS. SPECIFIC EVENTS IN AUSTRIAN HISTORY ARE BRIEFLY REVIEWED TO UNDERSTAND THE ATTITUDES OF YOUNG AUSTRIANS.