Nathan Marcus, Department of General History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
(All times are Vienna time)
“Americans in Vienna, 1945-1955”
14:00 Greetings: Austrian Embassy
14:10 Introduction: Botstiber Institute and CAGS
14:20 Key note: Guenter Bischof: Americans in Vienna, 1945-1955
15:00 Intelligence and Espionage
Nathan Marcus: The "Austrian Incident” of 1949
Dieter Bacher: Facing the “most active” enemy - Operational methods of Czechoslovakian intelligence services in post-war Vienna and possible countermeasures as seen by US intelligence
Duncan Bare and Siegfried Beer: Along the Danube: American Intelligence’s Coming of Age in Vienna and Central Europe from 1945-1947/1950
Discussant: Peter Becker
Break
16:30 Art and Culture
Anne Rothfeld: Eve Tucker versus Restitution Policy in U.S. occupied Austria
Anne-Marie Scholz: The Third Man as a historical resource for exploring the topic of Americans
in Vienna, 1945-1955
Oliver Sukrow: „Stable, unstable, and mobile“ – Art exhibitions and the reception of US-American culture in postwar Vienna
Discussant: Frank Stern
17:30 Occupation or Liberation
Anat Varon: Welcome to Vienna: The US Army’s Soldier’s Guide to Austria between Liberation and Nation-Building
Arvid Schors: Returning Home to an Alien Country. German-Speaking Jewish Emigrants as American Soldiers of Occupation in Vienna
SoonimShin: Der Staatsvertrag und dessen privilegierte Behandlung Österreichs gegenüber Deutschland: Warum unterschrieb der „Amerikaner in Wien“ Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. den Vertrag?
Discussant: Brigitte Bailer
18:30 End of the conference
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