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Marienthal During National Socialism
The »Anschluss«
(annexation) of Austria into Germany in March 1938 caused dramatic
consequences in Marienthal too. Most of the workers joined National
Socialist organizations, but some workers, mainly communists, offered
resistance. The Marienthal textile factory of Kurt Sonnenschein (1906–195?),
reopened in 1934, was »aryanized« as so-called Jewish property; that
means, it was taken by force by German entrepreneurs. Sonnenschein and
his family were able to escape to England. In addition, Gramatneusiedl –
and with it Marienthal – lost its status as an autonomous community and
became part of Vienna until 1954.
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Preparation for blowing-up the smokestack of the printing plant of
the Marienthal textile factory (built 1896; 36 meters high).
Photo
1930; original 7,8 X 5,5 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture collection, call
number 43/343.
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Implosion of smokestack II of the spinning mill of the Marienthal textile factory (built 1895;
54 meters high).
Photo
1942; original 14,6 X 10,2 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz), »Marienthal«
Virtual Archives,
Georg Grausam picture collection, call number
47/012.002.035.
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Blowing-up of the smokestack II of the spinning mill of the Marienthal
textile factory
Photo 1942; original 10,1 X 14,6 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/396.
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Blowing-up of smokestack II of the spinning mill of the Marienthal
textile factory.
Photo 1942; original 10,0 X 14,6 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in
Austria (Graz), »Marienthal« Virtual Archives,
Georg Grausam picture
collection, call number 47/012.002.036.
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The
»Hilfszug Bayern« (Auxiliary Bavaria), a National Socialist
propaganda campaign, in August 1938, in front of the former
factory restaurant, now the inn of Karl Bürgermeister (1895–1961).
Photo 1938; original 5,1 X 7,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/335.
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Bicycle dance of the Marienthal bicycle club in celebration of the
First of May in front of the former social democratic Marienthal
Workmen’s Clubhouse.
Photo 1939; original 7,5 X 11,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/434.
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National Socialist demonstration in the Hauptstraße on the level
with the Marienthal Workmen’s Clubhouse.
Photo 1939; original 12,7 X 17,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/285.
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Cenotaph at the cemetery of Gramatneusiedl for five communist
Marienthal
Widerstandskämpfer
(resistance fighters), executed in
Vienna 1944.
Photo by Rudolf Andreas Tesar 2004; original
9,0 X 12,8 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in
Austria (Graz), »Marienthal« Virtual Archives, Rudolf Andreas Tesar
picture collection, call number 47/013.001.001.
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© Reinhard Müller
Status: June 2010
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